The Challenge of Charging: Can Battery Technology Help our Wearables?
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the usual technology names in the mobile phone industry launched their latest products. By looking under the covers of these new products we can often...
View ArticleHearables Attract $50 Million of Crowdfunding – Ear Good, Wrist Bad
It’s almost four years since I coined the word “Hearables”, so it was pleasant to see it displayed as a headline product category on NXP’s stand at the Mobile World Congress last week, confirming that...
View ArticleGround-Breaking Innovations Are Great But So Is Long Term Investment In...
We have analysed 750 tech, media and telecoms companies that have appeared in the Tech Track 100 rankings from the last 15 years. With regards to how many director roles are occupied by women, we found...
View ArticleFive Fashion Tech Garments from MakeFashion 5.0 That Stole The Show
Calgary, Canada is home to the annual MakeFashion Gala and Runway Show, one of the largest of its kind. Launched in June 2012 by a trio of Calgarians, designers and technologists from all over the...
View ArticleThe 3D Printed Future of Fashion Business [Part 1]
Fashion business as we know it has been evolving for the last few centuries. Today, the majority of garment production takes place far away from the sales locations. Because of this long-distance...
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Billie Whitehouse of Wearable X Talks About Startup Life, Smart Apparel &...
Evolving technology has dovetailed with the health and wellness boom, bringing us wearable tech that counts our steps, tracks our heart rate, and even monitors the quality of our sleep. The latest name...
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AI: A Way to Overcome the Limitations of Human Intelligence
The human brain is an amazing biological marvel of incredible complexities and astonishing capabilities. It is capable of creating art, devising engineering solutions, visualizing the future of...
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Exploring Fashion Tech Milestones Beyond The Usual Marketing Ploys
Digital and retail are where fashion tech started to get the industry’s attention. This was when it finally became apparent that e-commerce was an inevitability of the future of shopping, websites were...
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Mercedes-Benz Creates Huge Ripples in Smart Home Battery Business
Mercedes-Benz is presenting itself as a serious player in the business of solar power and batteries. The luxury car manufacturer recently partnered up with Vivint Solar to provide an all-in-one,...
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An Anthropologist, a Material Scientist and a Fashion Tech Designer Walk Into...
No, this isn’t a joke. Rather, it is a comment on the centrality of transdisciplinary collaboration for informed and exciting data-driven futures. Data Analytics, Wearables & Fashion Tech’s...
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3D Printing and the Future of Fashion Business: Industry Benefits [Part 4]
Cost savings on import and logistic statistics show that in 2015, import of garments in the US was valued at $97 billion. Development of 3D printing and local garment types of manufacturing will enable...
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The Interdisciplinary Future of Fashion Technology
When industries get together to address common interests, amazing things can happen. AI and automobiles, education and digital media, sports and biometrics. Collaborations are proving to be imperative...
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Smart Money Transforming The New Fashion Tech Investment Landscape
Technological advances in the fashion industry has led to rapid and dramatic transformations that have continued to create new winners and losers. Walmart’s $310 million acquisition of Bonobos has a...
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Beware! The AI Machines Are Coming For Your Job
Industry consultants may soon face a new kind of competition: artificial intelligence. AI is already replacing menial tasks in retail and manufacturing. Other fields such as finance, marketing, and...
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5 Sustainable Fabric Innovators to Watch Out For
For quite some time the sustainable fashion community has understood the importance of reducing cotton products and recreating fabrics in a new way. For hundreds of years, the cotton industry has...
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Is Artificial Intelligence Ready to Rule the Runway?
There are quite a few companies with Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects on the go — some look promising, others gimmicky. I am going to check out some of these projects and analyse what’s been...
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Esteban De La Torre, On Technology, Art, Science And Blade Runner 2049
Esteban De La Torre, an audio-visual artist and technologist from Mexico, and Judit Eszter, a textile artist and researcher in the field of e-textile from Hungary, are the creative duo behind EJTECH....
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The Doppler Effect What We Built and The Legacy We Will Leave Behind
When I joined Hearables maker Doppler Labs over two years ago, I knew I was about to embark on one of the most important journeys of my career and finally get a chance to pursue my life’s mission of...
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Could Blockchain Be The New Internet?
NEW YORK CITY—On a recent Thursday evening, a crowd gathered at Galvanize, a sleek event space on the western fringes of Manhattan’s epically trendy SoHo neighbourhood. I was attending the...
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Why The Fashion Industry Needs To Get More Artificial
The past few years of technological advances have led us on a collision course – a merging of couture and computing. The industry has reached a point where machines can leverage enormous amounts of...
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