the college of human ecology at cornell has a 3D scanner that they have turned on the human body, not for medical research, but to help design clothing that is automatically custom-made on-demand. they show how, in fact, it’s hard to know how mail-order clothing will fit you. if you have a (recent) three-dimensional model of your body on hand, though, you can tell if pants will fit:
but this reminds me of the radio transmitters that were ‘invented’ to make toll-paying easier – just slapping technology on a problem to patch it up. why not just eliminate tolls (or scan license plate numbers)? or, in the case of the body scanner, why not just buy clothing in a store or from a local tailor?
virtual tailor
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