London retail stores are testing out hi-tech mannequins that can communicate directly with shoppers who walk past storefronts on the street. The technology, combining bluetooth transmissions and a new ...

Clothing is currently the largest single online retail sector, estimated to be worth $26 billion a year in the US alone; yet only 7% of clothing is bought online. The fact that consumers cannot try on ...

It’s not iBeacon, but uses a mix of Apple’s iBeacon technology plus their own “secret sauce,” whatever that is. What is it? VMBeacon is a new product enabling store mannequins to transmit information ...

Is this the night of the living dummies? While many jobs are becoming automated, some gigs are apparently going in the opposite direction. Shoppers in China were stunned after seeing human “mannequins ...

Designer clothing chain ITIB recently became a hot topic of conversation after a clip of women strutting their stuff on platforms placed outside of one of its stores went viral on social media. The ...

A new virtual mannequin that can alter its shape to any set of measurements is set to fix online shopping's sizing problem for good. Retailers like Adidas, Nicole Fahri and Hugo Boss have already ...

Mannequin is a free downloadable web app that allows you to freely change your clothes and fine-tune your eyes and mouth size and position. I tried to make a character using Mannequin, which not only ...

RENAZZO DI CENTO, Italy — To the untrained eye, the clusters of synthetic body parts scattered on the floor of a vast warehouse in Italy’s heartland looked very much like clusters of synthetic body ...