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2016-06-01
There’s nothing like a 3D “mini me” to make you realize, “Yes, those jeans do make my butt look big!” I had hoped that the result would be a bit more Hollywood when I’d stepped into what felt like the E! Red Carpet GlamCam360—iMakr’s 3D pop up body scanner. iMakr, a value-added retailer of 3D...
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2018-02-01
“Software is eating the world,” proclaimed Venture Capitalist and software engineer Marc Andreessen at the 2017 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. “With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be...
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2016-12-01
For most of my life I have lived in big cities where I didn’t need to drive. I just stepped onto the curb and hailed a taxi. But the other day I stepped onto the curb and no taxi appeared. And then it dawned on me—taxis don’t appear anymore; they are summoned. There’s an app for that now. As an...
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2017-12-01
“Imagine if your aunt, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, has wandered out the front door and you don’t know when she left or how long she’s been gone,” begins 12-year-old Abbi Paul, a student at Argyll Scotland’s Dunoon Grammar School, in her pitch to a panel of industry leaders in London earlier...
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2019-06-01
Not since the 1970s introduction of the barcode-the universal language of retail-has the apparel industry undergone such a radical transformation. In the past 12 months, an important development-the upgrade of the world's barcode standard to give every product a web address in a standardized...
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2016-08-01
The Zac Posen illuminated fairy princess dress worn by Claire Danes to this year’s Met Costume Institute Gala was a media sensation. Constructed with LED fiber optics, the sky blue ball gown was so large, the actress had to arrive in a private hire bus.