Soon, ‘Ugly’ Won’t Live Here No More
People don’t want to wear ugly stuff. They just don’t. Parisian style is made of this motivation. Ugly trillion dollar industries don’t just materialize out of nowhere; people value how they look. Why...
View ArticleDAY 1: Decoding The Game Changers
It was not so long ago that we were enjoying the spoils of Decoded Fashion London Summit, this time round we are in the city that never sleeps, New York City. Decoded Fashion’s New York City Summit is...
View ArticleFashion, Technology & Science, A Trifecta of Innovation
Have you noticed how both science and technology have been collaborating with fashion? It is this three-way partnership that is leading to scientific breakthroughs collabs that have given birth to new...
View ArticleDo Sharing Ecosystems Really Have The Family in Mind?
When I come home from work, I just want to decompress on the couch and get lost in social media before I start making dinner for my family. The thing is, each of my kids are sitting with me on the...
View ArticleWhen Fashion and LifeStyle Textiles are Getting Smart
We may not begrudge our clothes and textile furnishings for forgetting to remind us of our mother-in-law’s birthday, but we will expect them to play with us, get to know us, and make living our lives...
View ArticleNYFW: Marc Jacobs “Ghosts of New York” Tech Styled
Marc Jacobs takes this Fall 2016 ready-to-wear runway show very seriously with a new style of gothesque dark ensembles. Big xeroxed – The post NYFW: Marc Jacobs “Ghosts of New York” Tech Styled...
View ArticleFinTech and Africa – A Promising Love Story
When I started my ‘’African journey’’ three years ago I was soon told by industry leaders that the first mistake made by new entrants was to perceive Africa as a single country. With over 50 countries,...
View ArticleDigital Natives in Smart Cities: Conquering the Future Now
Stepping from your driverless car (which hummed off to find a parking spot), you glance at your wrist and notice that your virtual assistant plotted your path through the crowds of pedestrian traffic...
View ArticleDesigning for Smart Fabrics: Wear It’s At!
Lately, the term “wearables” appears more and more in our conversations. Usually we are describing a smart watch that extends our mobile experience, or a bracelet that tracks physical activity. Sure,...
View ArticleDesigning for Smart Fabrics: Deciding What to Design
Work with a Clothing Designer (someone who works with fabrics) I can’t stress enough how important it is to work with someone who understands making clothing, and other handicrafts out of fabric and...
View ArticleDesigning for Smart Fabrics: Potential Drawbacks
What are the Potential Drawbacks? If we can access, visualize and interact with our digital lives with fabric, that brings a whole set of implications to design for (privacy, security, etc.) and the...
View ArticleSmart Fabrics Technology, Don’t Believe The Hype (Just Yet)
Earlier this year, at the Wearable Technology Show in London, I met Jan Zimmermann, head of textile innovation with Swiss textile company Forster Rohner. Part of a hundred year old family-run business,...
View ArticleWhy Women Probably Need a Cellular Apple Watch More Than Men
Apple announced Series 2 of the Apple Watch last week. It’s a solid upgrade, adding GPS, waterproofing, and much faster speeds. One thing it didn’t include was a cellular chip. This means that in order...
View ArticleWearable Tech Trends 2017, Will The Global Appetite Continue to Grow?
The wearable tech market is still relatively young and in flux. Fitbit, the company that arguably led the first wave of interest in wearables, didn’t start making a wrist-based fitness tracker until...
View ArticleTranslating Technology – Striking The Balance Is Key
As technology continues to become more complex it becomes even more important to explain it in a way people can understand. If you make it too simple people will not understand the true value – too...
View ArticleWhen The Internet Of Things Becomes The Internet Of Voice (Part 1)
Forget the Internet of Things (IoT) – it’s a bubble. The majority of products currently claiming to be IoT devices are just the same, vertical Machine to Machine (M2M) products we’ve always had, but...
View Article[IN MY OPINION] The Importance of Encouraging Female Role Models in Tech
A week ago Donna and I set off to join the incredible group of women (and a few lucky men) at the Everywoman Technology Awards. We were finalists in the Entrepreneur category with two other brilliant...
View ArticleSmartphone Has Nowhere Else To Go, The Next Step in Simplicity is The...
Voice recognition in the cloud, along with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret and respond intelligently (which is a very different task to traditional Voice to text) is highly disruptive....
View ArticleSmart Textiles, Wearables and Integrated Systems
After taking a wearables technology class taught by a philosopher and designer Despina Papadopoulos, Renata De Carvalho Gaui decided to look at the possibility of seeing garments seamlessly integrated...
View ArticleHow Emerging Technologies Will Affect Fashion Manufacturing
The use of emerging technologies in the fashion business is nothing new, but what’s interesting is that the most striking and effective technologies are primarily used in the retail sector. It’s not...
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