Added 18 June, 2013
Gilt, the innovative fashion flash-sale site, is the latest online fashion phenom to open a physical outlet. The pop-up shop, dubbed Designer Outlet, is another attempt by Gilt and similar online operations to skirt flash-sale fatigue. While the concept was built on the idea that users shop during specific windows of time, 30 percent of Gilt's...
Added 18 June, 2013
The bacon trend shows no sign of abating. Now, when you brew a cup of morning coffee you can simultaneously enjoy the scent of bacon. Maple Bacon Morning coffee combines Arabica coffee beans with the flavors of maple syrup and bacon. The same company offers Bananas Foster Float flavored coffee as well.
Added 17 June, 2013
Some of the best gadgets these days are those that understand a modern problem and aim to tackle it in an innovative way. Take brushing and rinsing, for example. Two tasks that always go together but, until now, required toothbrush as well as a cup or cupped hand. RinserBrush offers a clever alternative with a a geyser-like stream that's created...
Added 17 June, 2013
For avid whiskey lovers, few events are more eagerly anticipated than WhiskyFest, an enormous tasting that touches down in several American cities throughout the year. But when sponsors of the New York festival suddenly moved it last year from Tuesday to Friday and Saturday, many regulars were unable to attend. An alternative arrived suddenly in...
Added 16 June, 2013
With every tech company from Apple to Google reportedly working products to compete with the Pebble and the Sony smart watch, wearable tech is one of the hottest topics on the gadget frontier. Now Microsoft is looking to the next level with an invention that aims to make data transferring – from using a credit card, logging into your account, to...
Added 15 June, 2013
ESPN launched a 3D channel three years ago that let viewers witness golf balls arcing toward them at The Masters and college football players practically bursting through the screen. Unfortunately for ESPN, there just haven’t been enough viewers who wanted to feel like they were right in the action and the channel will be shuttered by year’s end.
Added 15 June, 2013
Transparency and sustainability trends collide as supermarket prints its reports on grocery receipts
A company's sustainability report can be truly sustainable itself, as proved by Auchan, one of the largest supermarket chains in Europe, which is printing its "Self Scan Reports" right on customers receipts. The move dovetails with the company's tagline: "Auchan - the responsible discounters" and upholds their long-term commitment to offer...
Added 14 June, 2013
Regular WikiTrends readers already know that customization is a major social trend. Several shoe manufacturers have already come up s with creative answers to this trend, including Nike (www.NikeID.com), which invites customers to customize their own sneakers online, complete with a personalized ID tag printed on them. Now Bobbi-Toads is taking...
Added 14 June, 2013
Apps are now emerging that let people "touch" and "kiss" from far away, so it's right on trend that Huggies and Ogilvy & Mather Argentina made a belt for men that allows them to feel their unborn baby's kicks. The belt is synced up with the real-time movements of the baby in the mother's belly, apparently through some kind of wireless sorcery...
Added 14 June, 2013
Hot on the heels of the Osaka canal swimming pool in Japan comes NYC-based + POOL, a Kickstarter project that started with a simple goal: instead of trying to clean the entire river, what if you started by just cleaning a small piece of it? And what if you could change how New Yorkers see their rivers, just by giving them a chance to swim in it...