Another brand-new technology application, introduced by the Manhattan interactive design firm Icon Nicholson, is the Magic Mirror, a device that can turn any solo shopping trip into “social retailing.” In Icon Nicholson’s future, after a shopper has picked out some clothing, they hop into a dressing room equipped with the Magic Mirror and begin live […]
The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call “virtual sticky notes,” site-specific messages that people can leave for others to pick up on their mobile phones. A team led by Roy Choudhury has developed a new software system that […]
It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyses the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving based on your brain wave patterns. Similar technology could also allow you to control home electronics such as […]
Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a “power shirt” able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy. full story @ http://www.physorg.com/news122129780.html” Morris’s thoughts: This technology may be the DNA […]
Forgot the IPod, the future in innovative outreach retail (stores that come to you) may be RPods, (or retail pods). One of the quiet revolutions in retailing is the movement to take the retail experience out of the mall or shopping strip and move it to the customer, at a time and place that best […]
Within 24 hours the face of retail as we know it, will change forever, and will continue to change every 24 hours thereafter and it has nothing to do with Wesfarmers, Coles or any other retailer or takeover bid. It has everything to do with you. Within 24 hours you will have had customers through […]