Technology – Page 6
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Intersport launches Alpine store concept in Crans Montana
Intersport Switzerland has partnered with Mood Media and LG to equip its new Alpine store concept in Crans-Montana with the latest audiovisual retail technology. The high-tech upgrade is visible as soon as you enter the store. In the shop window, Mood Media, an experiential media company based in the U.K., ...
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Article
Snap and Amazon Fashion collaborate on seamless AR shopping experience, starting with eyewear
Source: www.snapchat.com Venice, California-based U.S. technology and social media company Snap and Amazon Fashion are collaborating to bring new Virtual Try-On (VTO) experiences to Snapchat users and extend augmented reality (AR) to both brands and customers. The new Snapchat try-on lenses include thousands of Amazon Fashion’s Virtual ...
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C-Suite Interview
Motoi Oyama: “Asics’ challenge now is to set up our running ecosystem”
We sat down with Motoi Oyama, chairman and director of Asics Corporation to talk about the strategy and the economic situation of the company. His years of global experiences were seen in every answer.
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Analysis
Digital Payments and e-wallets: An overview about PayPal and co
PayPal appears to be far and away the West’s top provider of e-wallets. How did this come about, who are the competitors and what is the situation in other parts of the world?
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Covision Media introduces new 3D scanner, wins ISPO Brandnew Award
Covision Media, founded in 2020 in Italy, won the ISPO Brandnew Awards in the Sports, Technology and Platforms category at ISPO Munich a few weeks ago with D-Twin, a fully automated 3D scanner that creates top-quality 3D models in a very short time. With one click, D-Twin can convert any ...
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Snapchat and H&M release a digital fashion collection
Technology company Snap, owner of the visual messaging service Snapchat, is partnering with fashion retailer H&M to launch a digital collection powered by the Snap Camera. From Dec. 5, 2022, users have access to three augmented reality Try-On Lenses, available via H&M’s mobile app and on Snapchat. The lenses ...
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New e-sports live ticker for sports publishers
Shadow Esports, a leading provider of professional e-sports analytics tools based in Berlin, Germany, has developed what it says is an easy-to-integrate e-sports live ticker designed to help digital sports media provide e-sports fans with high-quality content. The free basic version of “Esports-Liveticker” includes a scoreboard through ...
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Avient introduces technology to track fiber origin in polyester and polyamide textiles
Avient Corp. has announced the launch of a new fiber tracer technology called Cesa, designed to help producers and brand owners confirm the source of fiber, verifying the information provided on labels. The Cesa tracer concentrates contain special taggants incorporated into fibers during the spin-dyeing process and are customized to ...
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Article
Textile waste handling: the invisible part of global circular supply chains
It’s no secret that waste represents a huge problem in the apparel industry, but what if we think of this instead as an untapped resource?
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Hohenstein invests €1.3 million in AI-startup Sizekick
Hohenstein, a German provider of textile testing and a founding member of Oeko-Tex, has invested €1.3 million in Sizekick, a Munich-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup founded in the summer of 2022. Hohenstein’s investment is intended to enable the product launch in 2023. Sizekick’s software is designed to help online shoppers find ...
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Adidas Originals produces first wearable NFTs
On Nov. 16 Adidas Originals released its first capsule of blockchain-based virtual wearables – what it will henceforth call Virtual Gear – in the form of NFTs. All 16 of the collection’s items are, according to the brand, “designed to be worn by virtual avatars,” “accessible through a PFP dressing ...
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Article
Nike to launch new digital member platform called .Swoosh
Nike has developed a blockchain-based platform to serve as a “home” for all of its virtual creations – that is, “interactive digital objects such as virtual shoes or jerseys” for wearing “in digital games and immersive experiences.” In other words, NFTs. Nike has instituted a blog on ...
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Asics releases USDC-only, NFT-linked running shoe
Pre-orders are almost closed – they’re running on Nov. 4-9 – for the Asics running shoe designed “to get the Web3 community moving” and for sale only in exchange for the digital currency known as USDC. USDC (U.S. Dollar Coin) is a digital currency of the so-called ...
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Article
Daring to think de-growth in the textile industry
Over-consumption can’t go on, but does de-growth have to equal financial losses in the textile industry? Charles Ross explores alternatives.
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Umbro enters the digital-collectibles game
Umbro is launching a limited line of digital collectibles: ten virtual kits that draw from the brand’s back catalog. The so-called Nations’ Collection consists of standalone collections for England and Brazil and fusion shirts inspired by designs for France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the U.S. The kits were developed by ...
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Decathlon Italy introduces app for staff with Down syndrome
Decathlon Italy has presented My Personal Training, an app specially designed for the members of its staff affected by Down syndrome. The app has been developed in partnership with AIPD (Associazione Italiana Persone Down) and AGPD (Associazione Genitori e Persone con Sindrome di Down). Decathlon has been collaborating with these ...
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70-year-old Moncler mints NFTs
Moncler has established a partnership with Arianee, a web3 specialist, with whose help the Italian brand has released three series of NFTs: 500 tokens associated with the platinum-color version of the Moncler Maya 70 jacket, 500 for visitors to Moncler’s various “Extraordinary Expedition” exhibitions (in New York, London, Seoul, Tokyo ...
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FIFA to launch a metaverse
With the World Cup set to begin in Qatar, FIFA has signed a multi-year deal with Roblox to set up a metaverse with videos, games, in-game events, social spaces, rewards, virtual collectibles and collector competitions. Our readers might remember the Roblox company’s virtual environment and platform for multi-player video games ...
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Alibaba’s Tmall Luxury Pavilion enhances metaverse experience
Tmall Luxury Pavilion, the Alibaba luxury shopping platform, introduced a so-called Meta Pass and hosted an augmented reality fashion show in Shanghai. As Alibaba reported, Luxury executives tried on AR glasses, held a virtual item (such as a digital luxury bag), and placed it in a gift box. When they ...
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Danish start-up Kollektiv raises €1.5 million in pre-seed funding
Kollektiv, a training app co-founded by Danish Olympic triathlete Helle Frederiksen and her husband Ben Powell-Frederiksen, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was co-led by Copenhagen-based Ugly Duckling Ventures and VF Ventures, with participation from former BBC media executive Kerstin Mogull. Founded in 2020, Kollektiv is building ...