ANNE DROID COMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU 

For years we have been used to walking through clothing stores and viewing with interest clothes displayed on life-like male and female mannequins. Watch out. Now the mannequins may be watching you!

Add Anne Droid to the list of new personalities in the retailing world. This lady mannequin, like most people, is more than you might expect from outward appearances. Besides selling the clothes off her back, Anne is hooked up to an intelligence system that is watching the store via a built-in video eye. High-tech surveillance has moved to where no mannequin has stood before. Shoplifters now have an increasing chance of being caught.

Ms. Droid isn't hard-wired via cable as would have been the case in ages past. She is cable-free, easy to move and operates her own broadcasting signal. Further on in the store you might be amused by the two kids playing with a mannequin dog. Because of the transmitting feature, Anne Droid does not stop functioning even when a store workman carries her around the store. The whole concept of "visual merchandising" has grown over the years and the marriage of modern mannequins with the latest in video technology shows the brilliance of today's innovative entrepreneurs who are putting two and two or mannequin and video together to create new industries.

The founder of this concept is not stopping with mannequins. President Jerry Gutierrez, of Anne Droid has been asked to put surveillance systems in fiberglass rotating airplanes, fence posts (for property "watch posts" instead of watch dogs) and KitKat clocks (where both the tail and the eyes move). Gutierrez currently uses the latest Sony camera, which utilizes the CCD (Closed-Coupled Device) chip in lieu of the older vidcom tube.

More information: Jerry Gutierrez, Anne Droid Surveillance Systems Inc., 1601 So. Logan St., Denver, CO Phone: 303/698-9799.

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