Bobby Watts of Orlando, Florida has built the world's first digital 360-degree drone billboard. An avid model aircraft enthusiast, Watts was inspired to build the UAV-billboard by observing people's amazed reactions upon first encountering a drone being piloted. The billboard, which Watts calls "Drobotron", was stationed in front of Orlando's...
A couple months ago, Japanese minimalist retailer MUJI announced its first hotel in Shenzhen, China. Today, they announced that in the spring of 2019, they plan to open a hotel in Japan.
Just in time for New York Fashion Week: Men’s, PETA threw a party for Brave GentleMan, the world’s first all-vegan luxury menswear store, celebrating its grand opening in Brooklyn. Founder and Creative Director Joshua Katcher unveiled his Spring/Summer 2018 collection, which includes stylish shoes and belts made of “future-leather” and suits...
The burgeoning health food product market is seeing consumers look for alternatives to traditional beverages and foods, which is seeing new options like the J.F. Rabbit Veg Waters being released. Coming in three flavor options including Carrot, Ginger and Cucumber, each of the drinks contain just six calories or less and are made with only...
The Powder Room “touchscreen portal” is an interactive touchscreen vending machine which allows consumers to “chat” with brands as well as buy or sample their products. The digital kiosks feature 32, 40 or 50-inch high definition LCD touchscreens with software that allows video, audio, displays of point of sale and product content, as well as...
The new Non-Dairy Haagen-Dazs ice cream collection came as a result of fans of the brand filing a petition with Change.org, in order to encourage the popular brand to offer dairy free options for its consumers with sensitivities to lactose. To avoid using lactose, the brand instead added peanut butter, coconut cream, water and processed fillers...
Owners can now coordinate their fashion tastes with four shades of popular paint colors.
The VAN Beethoven truck is a mobile orchestral experience using virtual reality to deliver a LA Philharmonic performance. Visitors will enter a customized van and put on a Oculus Rift headset connected to the LA Philharmonic’s virtual reality app. The experience allows viewers not only to experience the music of the Philharmonic, but also the...
Gluten-frees 15 minutes may be up. The movement for gluten-free food began to assuage the relatively few celiacs who cannot tolerate the stuff. But for the vast majority of humans who fell for this fad, gluten-free foods are said to provide no demonstrable benefits. For those of us who always saw the anti-gluten fad as a bridge too far for fad-...
Faster and better customer service is one of the biggest business trends of the year and we're seeing many major companies rethink the way they interact with their customers. Starbucks is a case in point as they test a new express format that puts speed ahead of all else. The company's testing ground is a pocket-sized store on Manhattan's Wall...