Following the business-leisure -- or "bleisure" trend in the US and Europe, In India we are not seeing business trips being extended for leisure too. The lines between corporate and leisure travel are increasingly blurring. "Business travel has always been restricted and policy driven. While leisure travel, particularly outbound, has been...
Getting older has lots of perks, but squinting to read restaurant menus isn't one of them. The problem for many people is simply remembering to pack their reading glasses when they head out the door. ThinOptics solves this with what seems like a magic trick: folding small, armless glasses into a super thin keychain that goes wherever you do --...
The Central American nation intends to replace these wasteful, ocean-clogging items—such as plastic store bags, straws, coffee stirrers, containers and plastic cutlery—for biodegradable or water-soluble alternatives, or products made of renewable materials (think plant starches). The initiative is led by Costa Rica's Ministries of Health and...
Hawaiian Airlines is using a system from a company called LivePerson to run its messaging system. Customers can send texts to the airline, and a human will respond. In the not too distant future, we expect bots will be sophisticated enough to handle almost all customer service inquires sent via text message. But we're not there yet, so it's...
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Vismay Sharma, the cosmetics giant's UK managing director, said that demand for make-up among men was growing fast.
Speaking about the industry as a whole, he said male-targeted counters in department stores and drug stores could be a reality in "five to seven years".
According to Mr Sharma...
Solar sidewalks open the door for smarter road surfaces that could change the number of lanes by literally moving the white lines or display dynamic road-based signage that changes with driving conditions detected by integrated sensors, such as black ice.
This solar surface is the scaffold for all those future applications. The 1,200-...
AquaBounty Technologies in Maynard, Massachusetts, has said it's sold about 5 tons of genetically-modified (GM) salmon fillets to unnamed customers in Canada.
These fish can reportedly grow twice as fast as conventionally-farmed Atlantic salmon, reaching adult size in some 18 months as compared to 30 months. AquaBounty has also claimed...
The French have once again invented something irrefutably French: a 24-hour oyster vending machine. Of course the machines are refrigerated, and they also have glass walls so consumers can choose which oysters they want. One farmer, Tony Berthelot (who has a machine on Ile de Re island, off France's western coast) says the idea was born from "...
The FOX Sports virtual reality platform places viewers into a cool looking private room where they can hang out together and watch sports events on a large screen in the center. LiveLike, the company behind the app, is looking to add features that allow viewers to invite friends into the suite. To use the app, a viewer connects their account to...
