A real luxury experience is when the customer feels something exceptional. That’s why brands must provide true luxury through their digital touchpoints. Key Takeaways:Sadly, most online luxury experiences closely resemble each other — from website design to merchandise display and descriptions of the checkout process.In China, the world’s leading e-commerce market, almost 45 percent of all p...

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that across four key cloud service and infrastructure market segments, operator and vendor revenues for the first half of 2021 were $235 billion, having grown by 25% from the first half of 2020.The biggest growth was seen in cloud infrastructure services, comprising IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services. First half revenue from these service gre...

“Robotic” textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes.A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into clothing that senses how much it is being stretched or compressed, and then provides immediate tactile feedback in the form of pressure, lateral stretch, or vi...

A big rollable screen smartphone/tablet (a phablet to be precise) that’s designed to be the style statement in your pocket without the bulky form factor associated with big-screen mobile devices.After foldables, the next revolutionary upscaling to the contemporary form factor of smartphones and tablets is going to be the rollable design. The Scroll bendable roll-out phablet designed by Compal...

While demand for natural skin products has built a $1.6 billion market, a lack of clear guidelines may open the door for a new kind of greenwashing.A lot has been said about how the pandemic is motivating Americans to be more discerning about what they put in their bodies. But the crisis may also be having a big effect on what they put on their bodies.The concept of so-called clean beauty—make...

Researchers in the Netherlands are developing the 'Bubble Gun', which uses laser technology to deliver 'virtually painless injections'. The "Bubble Gun" is still in development as an alternative to traditional needles.Since fear of needles is common, this new method could increase vaccination uptake and also prevent the risk of contamination associated with traditional injections.The Bubble Gun...

Hype surrounding innovation often obscures the focused, multifaceted efforts that make breakthroughs possible. We look beyond press releases and buzzwords to understand what drives the successful corporate innovation programs that are recreating the enterprise.Innovation has an image problem. The “i-word” is invoked so often, and by so many, that it has come to mean at once everything, and as...

8i showed off its technology for quickly rendering volumetric video for real-time hologram images. The Venice, California-based company makes tools that capture, transform, and stream holograms using volumetric or 3D video.8i’s latest technology represents a fundamental advancement in volumetric video that enables the future of communication in 3D, where real people — not avatars — are broad...

Non-English content is booming on the streaming service.“Squid game”, a South Korean dystopian drama on Netflix, was originally conceived as a film more than a decade ago. But when Hwang Dong-hyuk, its creator, first pitched the idea about heavily indebted contestants competing for money in deadly versions of children’s games, studios balked. “It was too bizarre and people thought it wouldn...