The Retail Safari team attended the Intel Retail Breakfast at the Venetian Hotel and Chris Holst shared some of the highlights of the “Experiences for 2014” presentation: • Free me: – No wires – Intel is looking at wireless charging options for all devices and increasingly long battery life to untether and free consumers from power packs […]
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Retail Safari at the 2014 CES – Day 2 (Part 1)
Some highlights from Las Vegas by Dominic O’Brien. CES 2014 was dominated by a number of emerging areas including digital health, fitness and wearable technologies. Digital health products included a huge range of connected sensor based devices including heart rate and blood pressure monitors, vital sign sensors and emergency alert systems with GPS technology. Wearable […]
Retail Safari at the 2014 CES – Day 1
Our colleagues are at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They will be sharing some of the hottest new tech gadgets from the show. They had a great time today and their brains are a little (or a lot) overloaded… too many interesting and exciting stuff, but their favourite product of the day was the […]
In Finland, you can pay for your purchases with your face
Designed to improve the security and speed of transactions, the Finland-based company Uniqul has developed a payment system that uses facial recognition software to let customers pay for purchases without the need for cash, a credit card, a wallet or mobile phone. The system works with a Uniqul tablet placed at check-out stations. To confirm […]
