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Japanese Department Store Installs Robot Mannequins:

In an attempt to lure shoppers, Japanese department store Takashimiya installed an eerily lifelike interactive robot for its Valentine’s window display. The retailer called on robotics guru Hiroshi Ishiguro to provide the humanoid dummy, which can not only wink and yawn as people approach, but also display a range of emotions — beyond boredom, indifference and oblivious content, we assume. While this was just part of the store’s seasonal promotion, it might be a hint at where visual merchandise is going.

(via Hiroshi Ishiguro’s android mannequin creeps out Japanese shoppers (video) — Engadget)