Journalists get a lot of press releases claiming company X is “reinventing” something and company Y is doing something equally groundbreaking. For that reason, it’s easy to look at the latest Valentino/Yoox-Net-A-Porter announcement with the usual degree of scepticism.
What’s the one ‘connected’ item you feel your really can’t do without? For many of us it’s obviously not a smartwatch. Despite the entire industry launching one (New Balance and Emporio Armani are the latest), consumers are relatively unconvinced about the need for something that can do not much more than their smartphone can do.…
British shoppers may be the world’s biggest online addicts but they still like to go into stores to touch and feel the goods, it seems, especially if they’re “valuable”. However, once they’re in-store, their digital addictions rise to the surface again and they now expect those stores to be tech-enabled with an array of features…
Say what you like about Apple (and I’ve never held back from some harsh words about the brand) but the team in Cupertino certainly knows how to get us coming back for more. However ridiculously expensive the products are, however easy it is to smash those screens and however crazy it is that the phones,…
The traditional view of Chinese manufacturing is of giant factories full of low-paid workers producing goods that Western countries just can’t produce quite as cheaply any more. And that view was correct… one upon a time. But a lot of cheap manufacturing has moved to other countries as wages in China rise along with educational…
River Island is going tech-heavy following the opening of a new Shoreditch, London, office this month. The high street fashion brand has opened a centre that’s both office and “digital collaboration space” that will house 70 staffers. Not that it’s given us much detail about exactly what will happen there. CEO Ben Lewis said: “River…
And the US location for Adidas’s US Speedfactory? Atlanta wins the prize. Although is it such a prize? While a major new manufacturing plant for a big-league brand would usually be greeted by champagne corks popping, the Speedfactory is a robot-operated plant with the 50,000 pairs of shoes it’s expected to make next year all…
John Lewis is continuing to stake its claim to be one of the most tech-focused and forward looking retailers and has announced a deal with TrueStart, Europe’s only independent retail and consumer accelerator and investment fund. They’ll find and fund “the products, services and technologies which will define how we live in the future.”
Are we a step closer to getting our online products delivered by drone? Could be. Amazon said yesterday it’s struck a deal with the UK government to get us there faster. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority and a cross-government team have given the e-tail giant the necessary permission to “explore the steps needed to make the…
Adidas promised to rollout its German ‘Speedfactory’ concept further and now it’s planning to do just that. The sports giant said yesterday that it will open a robot-staffed manufacturing plant in the US next year.
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