Online retailers are able to collect massive amounts of data on consumers and their shopping habits. Now brick and mortar retailers want to enjoy the benefits of sweet, sweet data gathering, and they're employing spying mannequins to do it.

It's a common theme in scifi that robots will be encumbered with menial tasks, but Duval Guillaume's Alfa Romeo machine's saddled with a deplorable gig. The remote-controlled sign trails consumers throughout a Belgian mall, begging them to buy a car.

Will corporations still market to consumers at the end of the world? Designer Carl Bender certainly thinks so, and his series Anarkon imagines the sorts of products companies will try to sell consumers after the apocalypse, complete with pretty packaging.