Brutally Honest High-Tech Shopping
Our fiendishly clever British scientists have come up something very exciting this week. It's a spin-off from the defence technology that aims our missiles right on target.
This invention won't bust your bunkers. But it will help you dress a little better.
I want you to imagine you are going to buy a new outfit. You'll need to try a few things on, won't you? So you'll head into one of those cramped little booths they always have, and struggle into new clothes and gawp at yourself in the mirror. And then either make the wrong decision or emerge completely undecided. Well not any more.
Because this new British gadget is about to revolutionise clothes shopping. You'll still need to go into a little booth, but this little booth is special. This little booth has six three dimensional cameras. They will measure you instantly – on 1000 different points of your body. They will accurately look you over, head to toe, assess your age , your weight, skin texture, eye colour, what you look good in, what you look bad in. The cameras don't lie. They can even pick out identical twins, they are THAT clever. And then the machine will tell you exactly what it thinks of you in that snazzy suit you picked off the rail. The machine is very honest. If you look like a million dollars a voice will urge you to buy. If you look like a sack of potatoes it will tell you – but quietly. Does it really work ? Yes it does.
They've been testing the peace-time technology for months. Installing little 3-d cameras at the lines for buses in the northern British city of Bradford. The cameras look each passenger over, and the voice box then says something appropriate to them. And we know it works in wartime. Ask any soldier who used a British designed 3-D range-finder. Ask anyone left from Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard - they were on the receiving end.
The good news is that this technology is going to be remarkably cheap. So definitely coming your way soon.
The bad news is that it relies on what I believe you are finding a rather unreliable source of energy – electricity.
By Ed Boyle