Imagine beingness able to endeavor on wearing clothing from around the solid set down virtually via your webcam. That's the sense offered past times Clothia, a website and iPad app designed past times Elena Silenok, who earned her master's inwards figurer scientific discipline hither at the Jacobs School dorsum inwards 2006.
Silenok gave a tech verbalize almost start-ups almost the unlike options available to CS students later graduation Apr 24. The effect was hosted past times the Women inwards Computing grouping hither at UC San Diego. Some of Silenok's advice:
"If you lot aren't getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren't ambitious enough."
Silenok is forthwith a invitee lecturer at Columbia University too NYU, amid others, equally good equally a contributing author to Business Insider.
Clothia likewise allows users to browse their friends' closets, mix-n-match items to practise outfits, larn inspired past times fashion icons too portion their finds. She described her inspiration for the society inwards a 2012 even out inwards The New York Times:
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God, my pinkish matter is non working,’ ” said Ms. Silenok, who was born inwards Kaliningrad, Russia, to a menage unit of measurement of engineers too has a master’s inwards figurer scientific discipline from the University of California, San Diego. She decided to construct a novel wardrobe too wanted input from her friends. But e-mailing too instant messaging photos acre slogging around stores was a chore. And she wanted to telephone band upward mental images of her entire cupboard at all times. “As a girl, you lot don’t intend of simply an especial you lot buy,” Ms. Silenok said. “You intend of an outfit.” She cited equally inspiration the figurer touch-screen that Cher Horowitz pressed to mix too gibe the contents of her cupboard inwards the 1995 celluloid “Clueless.”“That scene was alone 17 seconds,” Ms. Silenok said. (She timed it.) “And people all the same recollect the wearing clothing closet. Women everywhere ever wondered, Why don’t nosotros accept something similar this?”
