Smart watches will be the must-get items for Christmas 2015, but at least one new product is proving that the wearable trend goes far beyond tech. Analog Watch Co., a Philadelphia-based watchmaker that professes a love of nature and makes watches out of wood, had another hit on their hands with a miniature ant farm you wear on your wrist they...
3D printing is helping to drive a long-term trend towards personalization and customization that can give everyone exactly what they want. Because it is so personal to begin with, fashion has long been at the frontline of personalization. And the epitome of personalization when it comes to apparel has always been bespoke goods: one-offs that...
Everything old becomes new again. At least that's the case with the venerable bicycle which seems to be undergoing a renaissance of sorts in cities and towns worldwide. A beneficiary of both the fitness and green trends, bicycles as a popular form of travel and recreation are here to stay. This trend has been solidified by major investments...
Even the most casual trend spotter has heard about the Next Big Thing in mobile: wearables like watches and activity bands. While Google Glass seems to have come and gone, and we about to feel the impact of Apple Watch, this trend is poised to be much bigger than smartphones worn as accessories. Adidas just announced they are releasing a range...
If you're an international flier you have almost certainly come home with a pocket of foreign change that ended up in the bottom of a junk drawer. Many airports and some airlines collect spare change for charity, but so far these initiatives seem to have failed to ignite the imagination of travelers or get a very big percentage of the billions...
One test of smart watches and other wearables’ ability to win the hearts of customers will be their ability to been seen as stylish by the people who wear them. Are they practical? Sometimes. Are they comfortable? Often. But most importantly for most potential wearers is the question of whether it looks good. Keenly aware of this sensibility,...
While it may seem as though some teachers are like robots, now the actual machines are starting to become part of the educators' toolkit. It makes sense that robots will someday be able to teach, but researchers in Switzerland are now bringing into the classroom to learn. Children learning to write are being asked to teach robots what they know...
3D printing has been slow to catch on with consumers, but those in the know (read: us) say it will prove to be one of the biggest trends of the decade. New and novel uses for the technology are coming along faster than ever, and some are proving to be life-changing. Once such invention is the Handii, a myoelectric prosthetic hand designed by a...
Facial recognition software is moving to the oceans to protect humans from sharks. Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS), an Australian company, has teamed up with Google+ and a local mobile telecommunications operator to create a shark detection and warning system that uses a sophisticated mashup of technologies to keep swimmers safe. Their...
Personalized data collection for marketing and even more nefarious purposes is now firmly established as an enduring trend. In fact, it's so ubiquitous that digitized data collection is moving off the ground and into airplanes. In a unique experiment to better understand their flyers, British Airways is enlisting some passengers as volunteer...