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.…
We live in an age of wearable technology and it won’t be long before everyone has at least one wearable. Right? Wrong actually. Apparently wearables (in the US at least) aren’t living up to expectations. Growth in 2017 is expected to be lower than previously predicted with research firm eMarketer saying usage is likely to…
Another step forward in wearable tech. Yes, it looks like wearables are continuing to move from the crazy vision of LED jeans or mood music cardigans of two years ago to stuff we might actually want to buy. Reports today say that Amazon might be entering the headphone sector with a product that allows you…
Have you noticed how the hype around wearable technology has died down lately? A couple of years ago you couldn’t move for some expert predicting that we’d all be talking into our jackets and lighting up the room with our jeans. So has wearable tech gone from being the Next Big Thing to Yesterday’s Thing?…
Apple Pay is struggling to gain traction outside of the US market, according to research specialist Timetric. The service launched in the US 18 months ago and has proved relatively strong there with most of its total usage of $10.9bn last year coming from Apple’s domestic market.
Wearables may not be the future of fashion as a whole but they’re the future of the watch sector, right? Hmmm. Like any bold new future, it’s one that’s getting off to a fitful start and that means companies can struggle to make money from it until it’s become completely mainstream.
There’s a 1950s British movie called The Man In The White Suit in which scientist Alec Guinness invents a durable, self-cleaning fabric that he thinks will be boon to mankind. But he ends up as a hate figure as businesses and their workers realise they won’t need to make any more textiles or garments. Maybe…
Regular readers of this site know I’m a bit of a robot fan and will take any opportunity to publish a still from Futurama. So it interested me to see the ultimate in robot bling in Guangzhou, China, where an unnamed “tycoon” went on a shopping trip accompanied by a coterie of robotic servants. Having…
We’ll all be using augmented reality (AR) and Bitcoin to buy products by 2020. Really? Well, that’s what some people in a 1,000-plus-person survey of UK consumers seem to think.
Nike was in an innovative frame of mind yesterday as it unveiled a raft of tech-based sports shoes that it said represented “new breakthroughs in performance… the all-access pass to your potential.” Hmmm. I must admit, I wish the announcements these companies make would be less hyperbole-laden. I always go into default sceptic mode when…
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