March 10th, 2005

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Kim Cattrall Gets Competition

Gizmodo reports about the newest trend to hit store windows: robotic mannequins that watch shoppers and periodically change position:

Faceless, camera-eyed, paraplegic mannequins are coming soon to Japanese department stores, as Flower Robotics shows off its prototype models that not only turn to pose for individual shoppers, but take pictures of shoppers and forward the images to store security.

That’s kind of creepy. How long will it be before the mannequins climb down and pursue shoplifters around the store? If you’re wondering about the Kim Cattrall reference, you were probably too young in 1987.

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donna
March 10th, 2005
11:13 am

I loved that movie. And it took watching Sex and the City a few seasons to realize it was the same person… :)

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The Lone Banana
March 10th, 2005
2:40 pm

And don’t forget her ground- (or is that sound-) breaking performance as “Lassie” in PORKY’S.

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Chris
March 10th, 2005
5:45 pm

Hah – Lassie is Kim Cattrall? I didn’t know that. I’ve seen Porky’s a dozen times too.

The famous movie I knew she was in is “Police Academy”.

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bree
March 10th, 2005
6:22 pm

I loved that movie too. I was pretty young in 1987, but I caught Mannequin on video.

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Kevin
March 10th, 2005
9:03 pm

Maybe I’m too old, but I remember that movie coming and going and having no interest in it, ever.

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lynne
March 12th, 2005
9:41 am

I graduated from HS in ’87 and I remember that movie coming and going and having no interest in it.
Do recall Ms. Cattrell in Porky’s though and her love for the smell of male sweat.

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