by Susan Schreiner | May 4, 2018 | Health, Technology, What's Hot
Not another column about wearables, you might be thinking. Some distribution channels might perceive that ‘It’s peaked for us,’ or ‘There’s limited opportunity,’ or ‘People buy the stuff, only to put it away after a few weeks,’ and so on. Until recently, wearables...
by Susan Schreiner | Mar 27, 2018 | Business, Health, Technology, What's Hot
Cybersecurity risks are escalating, threatening businesses, governments and consumers. In a world that revolves around the internet, security breaches, hacked elections, hacked medical devices, cyberwarfare, cryptocurrency heists, and other cyber threats are just a...
by Susan Schreiner | Dec 4, 2017 | Business, Health, Technology, What's Hot
Words like “smart” and “connected” signal a profound shift in the relationship between consumers and the products they use every day, the way businesses operate and how cities will function. Soon everything will be connected, creating a fusion between the physical and...
by Susan Schreiner | Oct 22, 2017 | Business, Health, Technology, What's Hot
With the premiere of the first Star Wars movie, our perception of robots changed forever. Until 1977, people used to think about robots as machines that performed pre-programmed tasks with limited memory. With the premiere of the first Star Wars movie, our perception...
by Susan Schreiner | Jun 16, 2017 | Technology, What's Hot
Over the past five years or so, we’ve seen the spectacular rise of wearables – and if you follow CES, you know that wearables became a significant category on the show floor. Anecdotally, humans have been wearing bracelets and necklaces for over 100,000 years,...
by Susan Schreiner | Aug 3, 2016 | Technology, What's Hot
In wearables entertainment, this is expected to be a breakout year for Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) headsets and a boon to retailers. This category is about enhancing the user experience during entertainment activities. These can include devices that...
