[vannrox]

Cool.

[martin_fierro]

Levi's jeans has been using this technology (or something like it) for a couple of years now.

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[templar]

Remember when British and Hong Kong tailors used to take custom orders from anywhere in the world based on measurements sent to them by affiliates overseas? This is the future. Large retail outlets with lots of expensive floor space and stock are going to slowly go the way of the horse. Still there, but not used much anymore. Coupled with automated cutting and sewing fabrication techniques, you should be able to get a custom suit, slacks, jeans or whatever delivered to your door by UPS about as fast as it now takes to get stock clothes altered for fit by a tailor and delivered. At much lower cost and and with very few, or maybe even no, people involved.

[AndrewC]

What happens when the scanner malfunctions?

[jimt]

This is entirely plausible given current computer integrated manufacturing technology. If you can do it with metal, plastic, glass, etc. parts, you can do it with clothes.

Cool !