Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a “power shirt” able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy. full story @ http://www.physorg.com/news122129780.html” Morris’s thoughts: This technology may be the DNA […]
From Morris’s blog at InsideRetailer: http://www.insideretailing.com.au/articles-page.aspx?articleType=CategoryView&categoryId=53 There’s so much fully-sick stuff on the web that it can be overwhelming, so here’s the first of my lists of some of the great, useful and sometimes unusual sites and tools that are out there: Google Docs – http://docs.google.com This is part of a growing trend towards free […]
From Morris’s blog at InsideRetailer: http://www.insideretailing.com.au/articles-page.aspx?articleType=CategoryView&categoryId=53 We all carry this around with us, we hold it, we talk to it, we listen to it and we rely on it to bring the world to us, but the Trojan horses that it hides within are set to change the way we buy and sell forever. The […]
Forgot the IPod, the future in innovative outreach retail (stores that come to you) may be RPods, (or retail pods). One of the quiet revolutions in retailing is the movement to take the retail experience out of the mall or shopping strip and move it to the customer, at a time and place that best […]
I had dinner the other night with a couple of retail consulting giants, one local, one international and the conversation took us to trying to find the most innovative retailer in Australia. The combined brain power of my dinner companions gave us an encyclopaedic knowledge of the retail scene around the world and we quickly […]
There is a common heart beat that underlies all recent technological and business advances and ignoring it and its implications will ultimately result in your retail death. The DNA behind Skype (computer telephony), youtube (on line video sharing), flickr (on line photo sharing), joost (on line television), Google (search engine) and most of the other […]
