Shopping your favorite television shows has been something tech forecasters and commerce nerds have been talking about for years: in my early days living in the Bay Area, I even worked on a few interactive television projects for the boutique ecommerce consultancy that brought me out to California in the first place. There were lots [...]
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Earlier this month, I made my first fashion and tech prediction for the year ahead. Here’s another one: after years of distrust and (many would argue, well-founded) wariness, land-based retailers and mobile technology will finally stop beating around the bush and, to borrow a phrase from a much more widely read and beloved blog [...]
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Current shopping app intrigue: Lasso, a San Francisco-based fashion startup proposes to help you find exactly what you’re looking for in local boutiques with the help of people who are, like, real living thinking breathing humans that might actually know a thing or two about style. It’s only available in San Francisco at the moment, [...]
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Have you been trolling the racks during a retail adventure and thought to yourself, hmmm, I really wish that my phone was pulling in more deals right now? Apparently a majority (albeit a small one) of shoppers feel this way, according to results from a recent survey by the folks behind shopping comparison app BuyVia. [...]
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With a new baby (she’s 12 days old as I write this) this year, I needed – more than in previous years – a number of quick, easy gifts that didn’t require me to leave the house. Sure, I stocked up on Amazon.com gift cards from the grocery store display and did my fair share [...]
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Yes, in the video’s comments, a few people are kvetching about the newness of this technology (Japan kicks ours asses again). And you could also make a plausible argument that it would take less time to just paint on a sample nail color, but those two things aside, New Look’s augmented reality, app-enabled virtual nail [...]
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