BMW has commenced a pilot project to test the impact of wearable technology in improving quality assurance of its cars at its plant in Spartanburg in South Carolina. Workers at the plant are using Google Glass to record tests by ...
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When Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd. was founded in 1986, it was a relatively small and unknown company. Through continually striving to create trade exhibitions that generate business for the exhibitors and visitors alike, the company ...
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Eyeking LLC, the eyewear specialist with licensed partners including Under Armour Eyewear and Hobie Polarized, appointed Timothy (Timm) Parker as EVP, product, design and marketing. Parker brings to his new role at Eyeking more then 20 ...
Tags: Eyeking, EVP Product, Recreation
Robert Graham announces it has licensed Majestic International for men's underwear and loungewear. The collection, which will launch in the Fall of 2015, marks its entrance to the underwear and loungewear category to supplement the men's ...
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Emmy Award-winner Ryan Seacrest will host the show live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, in a two-hour extravaganza on the CBS television network and broadcast in numerous countries around the ...
Tags: Calvin Klein, Fashion Rocks, Apparel
ImagineX Group, Asia's leading retail, brand management and distribution company, and Authentic Brands Group, LLC ('ABG'), the new owner of Juicy Couture, announced a long-term franchise partnership which will drive market expansion and ...
Tags: ImagineX, Juicy Couture, Apparel
QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (NanoQuine) at the University of Tokyo have announced the development of wearable see-through display Laser Eyewear (LEW) based on laser retina ...
Tags: QD Laser, Electrical, Electronics, Display
Marika, the largest division of Fam Brands, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Glance Eyewear for women's sunglasses and reading glasses, as well as related eyewear accessories. The first collection to be produced under the ...
Tags: eyewear accessories, eyewear, Sporting Goods, Recreation
Shaped like a lopsided headband, Google Glass is an unassuming piece of technology when you're holding it in your hands. You feel as if you can almost break it, testing its flexibility. Putting it on, though, is another story. Once you ...
Will your clothes and accessories change how you live your daily life? Wearable devices like smart watches, glasses and activity monitors were a big topic of conversation at South By Southwest Interactive this week - specifically their ...
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Wearable technology mainly concerns devices and apparel/ textiles. Devices are discrete electronic and electrical hardware sold on its own for bodywear. It may be utilised by being attached to apparel or by constituting worn accessories ...
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Luxottica said it set a new net sales record of more than €7.3 billion in 2013, an increase of 7.5 percent in currency-neutral (c-n) terms and 3.2 percent at current exchange rates compared to 2012. ADVERTISEMENT The Italian ...
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LG will launch its first smartwatch in 2014, the head of its mobile unit said Monday, tapping into the nascent market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's new source of growth. The announcement from the South Korean ...
Tags: LG, Smartwatch, Samsung, Galaxy Gear
(Phys.org) —The wearables smart specs marketplace is a trend yet to happen. On the one hand, proponents emphasize how cool it will be to stay connected via wearables without having to keep extracting and replacing a handheld device. ...
Tags: Icis, Laforge, Smart Glass, handheld device
TUESDAY Feb. 11, 2014, 2014 -- Experimental glasses that seem to improve a doctor's ability to see cancer cells during surgery may help reduce cancer patients' need for follow-up operations, according to a new study. The researchers said ...
Tags: cancer, Experimental Eyewear, high-powered magnification