Picture a life-size screen, that?s fully interactive with you on the street or in the store. Using machine learning it scans you when you opt in as you walk by. Based on this scan retailers can in seconds immediately conduct intelligent advertising, recommending other available items personalized to your taste by color, style, gender, age, and even emotion based on your facial expression. www.sap.com/australia/products/leonardo.htm

Alibaba has partnered with a virtual fitting room startup called Haomaiyi to allow customers in its TMall to try on as many outfits as possible, without the hassle of putting on and taking off clothes. You can visit an offline shop and try on clothes by just tapping the clothes on the screen of a smart mirror, and the 3D image on the mirror can demonstrate 90% of the?look. Haomaiyi aims to give AI-driven fashion recommendations to its customers in the future. http://technode.com/2017/10/18/alibaba-tech-showcase/

Voicery offers something most companies probably didn?t know they needed even just five years ago: a customized digital voice that sounds like an actual human, not a computer. It only needs a few hours of a voice actor?s speech, on which it trains a deep neural network to imitate that person?s voice. Voicery?s AI-synthesized voices sound human enough to convey carefully designed emotions that can act as an extension of a company?s brand. www.fastcodesign.com/90166206/the-future-of-branding-synthetic-voices-that-sound-100-human

When we, as human beings interact face-to-face, it's on the basis of both intellectual and emotional engagement. Sole Machines in New Zealand are building life-like Digital Humans which can connect with us in a human way by analyzing reactions and learning in real time. They have a virtual central nervous system so they can recognize emotional expressions then respond appropriately and interactively in real time. This allows a personalised experience at scale. Presented at the Financial Review BHP Business Summit 2018. www.soulmachines.com

Drone startup Skydio has launched Skydio R1, an AI-powered autonomous drone that flies all on its own. It locks on to a subject (like you, going on a run) and follows along with a camera through trees and obstacles, without losing track. It's seen as a quantum leap in tracking and following technology. www.skydio.com

Police officers in Zhengzhou, China have been spotted wearing sunglasses equipped with facial recognition software that allows them to identify individuals in a crowd. Not only do the surveillance glasses actually work, but they also work better ? and faster ? than traditional CCTV setups. Security footage is notoriously grainy, and even if cameras are being monitored in real-time, the lag between spotting someone who might be a person of interest and calling authorities can be enough time for that person to make a clean getaway. The sunglasses are connected to a handheld device that uses facial recognition software to compare who the wearer sees against a pre-loaded database packed with photos of 10,000 suspects. And it does so in just one tenth of a second. https://futurism.com/chine