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.…
So Amazon filed a patent (a couple of years ago) for a floating warehouse that could help it deliver more stuff to us poor stuff-deprived consumers down here on terra firma. The surprise here is perhaps that it took so long to learn about it (top marks to CB Insights analyst Zoe Leavitt). It may…
Ebay has opened the world’s first store powered by emotion just in time for Giving Tuesday and also revealed just how stressful Christmas shopping can be.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
