{"id":1084,"date":"2006-11-09T18:40:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T23:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2008-02-29T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:09:12","slug":"step-3-customer-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"step 3: customer for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"310\" height=\"255\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bbwe-A-TyBg\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bbwe-A-TyBg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"310\" height=\"255\" hspace=\"40\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d scanned too quickly over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/content\/nov2006\/id20061103_196323.htm\">news of Adidas&#8217; new store on BW (Link)<\/a>, so it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass-customization.blogs.com\/mass_customization_open_i\/2006\/11\/adidas_finally_.html\">breakdown on the Mass Customization blog (Link)<\/a> that got me looking for something like&#8230; well&#8230; the video above. I was most interested in finding what the Mass Custom blog mentioned in the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A large glossy, black cube is the focal point of the center. Here, customers can customize their own &#8220;mi adidas&#8221;\u009d, using now a larger flat-screen configurator to alter the details of the shoes by simply pointing a finger to the screen. Laser and infra-red technology then translate the gestures into commands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds somewhat like the customization system that Reebok (acquired by and now a part of Adidas) is using inside the Second Life virtual world (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1052\">reLink<\/a>). I suppose we should once again be on the lookout for a link between a virtual customization tool and a real one; to my knowledge, the Nike iD-NBA 2k6 one never materialized. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d scanned too quickly over the news of Adidas&#8217; new store on BW (Link), so it was the breakdown on the Mass Customization blog (Link) that got me looking for something like&#8230; well&#8230; the video above. I was most interested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}