Apple recently unveiled its new flagship San Francisco space. The tech giant has described this new store, which is a complete reboot of the Apple Store format, as the next generation of Apple retail. Eventually every Apple Store (or most of them) will have this new look. (more…)
MIT's new invention, the Materiable shapeshifting device–yes, a shapeshifter (a sci-fi comparison is not inappropriate here)–is both figuratively and literally making waves. And these waves will eventually touch every industry.
But before we speculate about how this shapeshifter might someday change your business, let's break down what this device actually does and how it works.
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New technology, like the three examples below, not only provide entertaining reading, but stir up our creative thinking as we tackle the day-to-day problems in our businesses and personal lives. (more…)
Pizza chains are probably one of the last types of companies you would expect to integrate new technology. Technology hasn't advanced far enough that we can teleport pizzas, but pizza chains can do a lot with recent technology to improve customer satisfaction, increase efficiency, and boost sales. Although many pizza companies are experimenting with new technology, we'll use Pizza Hut as the main example in this article. (more…)
In the future, you will have personal relationships with the brands that surround you. What does that mean exactly? It means the massive shift from outbound marketing to highly personalized inbound marketing will reach its logical conclusion: brands will become personalities (think of the endearing droids in Star Wars), who can consolidate all of the objectives of content marketing into a simple 1:1 interaction between the customer and the brand. (more…)
It wasn't that long ago — perhaps two decades — that the idea of a printer in your home printing things from your computer was still fresh, novel technology. And that was years before Bluetooth, WIFI, and wireless network printing. (more…)
