Clothing Checks itself Out

Embedded Self Checkout

Asia’s biggest clothing retailer uses mini RFID chips to power self-checkout

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  in Retailwire    04/07/2023

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Asia’s biggest clothing retailer uses mini RFID chips to power self-checkout

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

04/07/2023

Takahiro Tambara, chief information officer at Uniqlo’s parent, Fast Retailing, said mini RFID chips placed in the price tags enable customers to check themselves out of stores. The chips, used to track items throughout the supply chain, have helped significantly reduce out-of-stocks and improve the customer experience in the retailer’s stores. ...   '

Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem

I Worked more on cleansing clothes rather than creating them.  Note Blockchain use.  Phygital.  Hmmm.  

Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem

By CNN, December 23, 2022

On Phygital fashions.

Lablaco wants to use digital tools to revolutionize the fashion industry.The fashion industry is tapping digital technologies to cut waste and modernize.

Italian fashion platform Lablaco is using blockchain to digitize fashion houses and brands' collections in the "phygital" market, when customers purchase both a physical fashion item and its digital twin.

Lablaco's model keeps phygital items paired after sale so if a physical item is resold, the digital version goes to the new owner's digital wallet.

Blockchain's transparency assures the new owner of the apparel's authenticity, while its creator can track its aftersales journey.

Lablaco's Eliana Kuo said digital spaces could serve as a testbed for physical clothing by using sales data to inform real-world marketing.

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Walmart Tries out AR with Machine Learning for Clothing Trial

Experimented with this and related cosmetics approaches.  

Walmart Rolls Out AR to Try on Clothing Virtually

By Fast Company, September 19, 2022

Walmart has launched a new augmented reality feature that allows shoppers to virtually try on clothes.

The Be Your Own Model tool uses machine learning technology originally developed for topographic mapping so customers can view how apparel will fit on their bodies, along with shadows, colors, and simulated fabric draping.

Be Your Own Model runs on Walmart's iOS application, with shoppers able to upload photos to model the apparel on images of their bodies.

Walmart's Cheryl Ainoa said the process is energy efficient so customers will not run down their phones' batteries.

From Fast Company

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Underground Fashion Maps

 Mapping fashion senses, uses in advertising?   beyond? 

'Underground maps' segment cities using fashion, AI

by Cornell University  in Techxplore

Cornell computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence framework to automatically draw "underground maps," which accurately segment cities into areas with similar fashion sense and, thus, interests.

How people dress in an area can tell a lot about what happens there, or is happening at a particular time, and knowing the fashion sense of an area can be a very useful tool for visitors, new residents and even anthropologists.

"The question I've been interested in is, can we use millions of images from social media or satellite images to discover something interesting about the world?" said Utkarsh Mall, a doctoral student in the lab of Kavita Bala, professor of computer science and dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

Mall is lead author of "Discovering Underground Maps from Fashion," which he presented at the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Jan. 4-8 in Waikoloa, Hawaii.  .... ' 

See Underground fashion maps   for more. 

LED Display of incoming Data Through Clothing

All the Information You Need Could Be in Your Pocket

University of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science (Canada)

October 12, 2021

Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science in Canada have developed a tool to display basic information from incoming messages to smartphones and other wireless devices by shining it through one’s apparel. The PocketView technology uses light-emitting diode (LED) displays that can serve either as standalone devices or be linked wirelessly to smartphones through Bluetooth. Cheriton's Antony Albert Raj Irudayaraj said the displays show only minimal information, which is "good enough if you're walking or biking, for example, to show basic navigation instruction." Experiments found thin and light-colored fabrics transmit LED light better, while many darker-colored fabrics and denser, patterned weaves are sufficiently transparent to see the lit LEDs underneath, especially indoors.

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