Would A ‘Digital You’ Make Buying Clothes Online Easier?

It was with some trepidation that I stripped down to my underwear and stepped into the booth. The Size-Stream Scanner, as it’s known, is currently just a prototype and is merely a space with a curtain pulled around it, fitted with 10 sensors, all trained on different parts of me. The music starts up, I place my feet on the marked spot, and grab a pair of handles. Within seconds the machine has my precise dimensions after taking three scans of my body. On a screen outside I get to see myself modelled in 3D. “We get to construct a body model of you, with all the lumps and bumps, so it’s very personalised,” explains Jim Downing, the chief technical officer of Metail, the Cambridge company that’s developing this new tech. You can say that again. Read more at BBC News.