The trend, already popular in Asian capitals like Tokyo and Bangkok, is the latest international fad to sail into Myanmar since the end of junta rule in 2011 heralded a new era of freedom. It may be raining cats and dogs in Myanmar, but in Yangon two coffee shops are offering animal-lovers a chance to escape the monsoon as the global pet-cafe...
The SolarBox is an inexpensive and powerful solar powered speaker that combines excellent audio quality, rugged construction, Bluetooth connectivity, and many other features for outdoor activities. Place the SolarBox in sunlight for 10 minutes and it works. As solar tech gets better and cheaper we will be seeing even more good ideas like this...
As with AmazonGo, the convenience store with no checkout lines that opened last year in Seattle, the Cheers outlet at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) looks like its normal store - with shelves and fridges stocked with food and drinks - except there is no cashier or assistant in sight.
Instead, in this store customers use a QR code found on the...
Slovenia has seen visits by U.S. travelers increase 15 percent since Trump took office in January. The tiny European nation of Slovenia is undergoing a tourism boom partly because it’s the native country of U.S. first lady Melania Trump. The Slovenian Statistics Office said Monday that some 1,939,000 tourists visited the Alpine country of 2...
Many new build houses now come with smart technology built in, allowing residents to control entertainment, environment, phones, lights, shopping and much more from a single control or even voice commands. For the rest of us, however, retrofitting smart home technology can be expensive and intrusive. A new Kickstarter campaign aims to fund an...
The UK’s “mindfulness mega-trend” shows no sign of running out of breath, with sales of “mind, body, spirit” books booming, against a background of slowing sales elsewhere on the shelves. Topped by Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim’s The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, a guide to “how to be calm in a busy world” that has sold more than 43,...
Electric vehicle buyers are spoiled for choice these days – there’s electric sports cars, sedans, SUVs, minivans, and motorcycles. So where’s the electric truck? New York-based Bollinger Motors just answered that question with the B1 – the world’s first all-electric, all-wheel drive sport utility truck.
The fight for primacy in the the world of mobile payments is still in its early stages. Now Amazon Pay Places is in the game with a recently announced feature of the Amazon brand that allows consumers to pay for restaurants and purchase items that are sold in stores through their accounts with the eCommerce site. To start, the brand has...
At WikiTrend we make a clear distinction between a trend and a fad, with the biggest differentiator being the amount of time it is with us. That said, Cotton Candy is having its faddish moment, popping up in unexpected places all around the globe. Lola's Cloud, for example, is an organic cotton candy pop-up at Toronto's Yorkville Mall that...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is developing technology that will monitor customers' facial expressions to detect frustrated or unhappy shoppers. The technology uses video cameras at checkout to identify “varying levels of dissatisfaction,” and will notify employees in other parts of the store, ordering them to report to a checkout register and attempt...