If meeting planners want to appeal to younger attendees from Generation Z, they need to focus on delivering authentic messaging and interactive, to-the-point content. Keep those presentations moving. “If it’s not interactive, they’re not going to stay at the meeting,” said Cindy Lo, president and event strategist at Red Velvet Events in Austin...
Auckland Airport's digital “multi-retailer mall” will allow travelers to purchase products or services from multiple airport retailers with a single transaction and then collect all of their items from a single collection point at the airport. The online platform also means that international passengers can shop at any stage of their travel...
We have recently seen ways that temporary tattoos can be used to replace pin-prick blood tests, turn the body into a touchscreen, or act as functional interfaces. Now, researchers have designed a temporary tattoo that can be used as a wearable electronic device. The graphene health sensor, developed by a team led by Deji Akinwande and Nanshu Lu...
Mushrooms are having their moment. We are seeing the beginnings of a wellspring of attention for mushroom teas, elixirs and wellness products, and now they are coming to beauty. The beauty brand Origins, for example, is offering a moisturizing eye serum that features a mushroom blend which they claim reduces the appearance of under eye...
Hundreds of thousands of Walmart products are now available to purchase using your voice and a Google Home gadget or Google Assistant.
Walmart also integrated its Easy Reorder feature into Google Express allowing for simple repeat purchases.
Google intends to use the Walmart account link to offer personalized shopping results based...
Research reveals just how popular ice-cream vans are with Brits as 65 per cent say they make a purchase over the summer, with almost a third (32 per cent) buying from an ice-cream van at least once a month. Yet with an average wait-time of 7 minutes and 42 seconds per visit, ice-cream fans could potentially be wasting almost an hour and a half...
Recent studies suggest that Millennials aren’t actually all that different than their parents. They just needed a little more time to get there.
A recent Zillow study found that those supposedly childless, car-less, city-living, forever-single Millennials are actually settling down, having kids, moving to the suburbs, and buying large...
Normal black asphalt absorbs around 80 to 90 percent of sunlight. This is a big concern in areas like Los Angeles that receive a lot of sunlight. The asphalt absorbs the heat and reflects it back, leading to urban temperature increases. The high temperatures, in turn, lead to more need for energy-sucking air conditioning. Demonstrations have...
With much speculation surrounding whether the commercial up-take of drone delivery would ever hit the skies, it looks like we can now stop wondering. Drone technology company Flytrex, in partnership with AHA, Iceland’s largest online marketplace, is launching the world’s first operational on-demand urban drone delivery service.
The first...
The German government has published a list of ethical guidelines for self-driving cars. The rules favor the preservation of human life and preventing human injury over other concerns. The report stipulates 15 rules for software designers, to make “safety, human dignity, personal freedom of choice and data autonomy” a priority. Traditional...