Latest Mannequin Stories

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A few months ago, one “Ad agency by day, invention lab by night” announced a new product which paired facial recognition and Facebook to check customers in to a location as soon as that customer walked through the doors. Now, some luxury stores in Europe and the U.S. will be bringing in their own eye-level cameras and hiding them in the most obvious of places: the mannequins. While these ever-watching mannequins won’t be...

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion Specialties, Inc. is pleased to announce the Mannequin Design Competition for students. Design students are invited to participate in a contest exploring the world of mannequin design through the eyes of a singular brand. Winning designs will be showcased at 2013 GlobalShop in Chicago and in DDI magazine among other venues. The grand prizewinner will see his or her designs sculpted and manufactured in full size; the winning collection...

Pekin, Ill., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Foundation (iaedp(TM)) announces its third annual "Imagine Me Beyond What You See" Body Image Mannequin Art Competition. Created in 2010 as a key highlight of iaedp's annual educational Symposium, the competition is designed to promote healthy awareness and acceptance of body images, using mannequins as a unique and realistic palette for artistic expression. The winning...

Just 20 minutes of playing a violent shooting video game made players more accurate when firing a realistic gun at a mannequin - and more likely to aim for and hit the head, a new study found. Players who used a pistol-shaped controller in a shooting video game with human targets had 99 percent more completed head shots to the mannequin than did participants who played other video games, as well as 33 percent more shots that hit other parts of the body. In addition, the study found that...

PEKIN, Ill., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Foundation (iaedp) is proud to present its Second Annual "Imagine Me Beyond What You See" Body Image Mannequin Art Competition created in 2010 to promote healthy awareness and acceptance of body images. The competition incorporates mannequins to help create a unique and realistic palette for artistic expression. Entries are accepted from October 1, 2011, through January 15,...

PEKIN, Ill., Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Foundation (iaedp) is proud to present its Second Annual "Imagine Me Beyond What You See" Body Image Mannequin Art Competition created in 2010 to promote healthy awareness and acceptance of body images. The competition incorporates mannequins to help create a unique and realistic palette for artistic expression. Entries are accepted from October 1, 2011 through January...

Rice University bioengineering students redesign pediatric mannequin to give med students practical experience so young patients aren't subjected to more stress and painRice University bioengineering students have modified a child-size training mannequin to give medical students hands-on pediatric experience so that real patients can be spared further stress and pain.The students created Ped.IT, short for Pediatric Evaluation Device Intended for Training, as their senior design project at the...

CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp) invites attendees to behold the beauty as seen through the eyes of those affected by eating disorders. "Imagine Me Beyond What You See" is an awareness contest encouraging treatment centers and private facilities with art therapists, as well as students and the general public, to work with patients to design mannequins in a way that reflects their perception of beauty. Paint,...

New York clothing store Barneys has removed a controversial display that appeared to depict blood-splattered mannequins fending off invisible attackers. The window display, which was located in a vestibule along E. 61st St., was ordered taken down Tuesday by Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys, Doonan told the New York Daily News. We encourage our display people to be creative. We give them a lot of latitude, but this clearly crossed the line, he said. It's as if someone saw a bad...

"What brings you in to see me today?""Part of my left breast has been painful for awhile.""Can you lie down so that I can examine you?"It sounds like a snippet of conversation between doctor and patient. But the doctor, in this recent exchange at the University of Florida campus, was actually an engineering doctoral student "” and the patient a "mixed reality human" composed of a life-sized computer avatar on a flat screen and a mannequin with a prosthetic breast.Intimate procedures such...