The Savigny Luxury Index dropped below its starting point for 2018, as lingering China-US trade tensions weighed on the sector's recent recovery.Christmas has come early for Harry Winston. The legendary jewellery house acquired the Pink Legacy at auction for a record $50 million this month. The stone will be renamed the Winston Pink Legacy and will be added to the company's Legacy collection of...

Subtle Medical, a firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, won both FDA clearance and the European CE Mark of approval to introduce its SubltePET system on both sides of the Atlantic.The system uses artificial intelligence techniques to improve the quality of fast positron-emission tomography (PET) scans, allowing patients to go through exams faster than before without suffering from poore...

LEGO has launched a new augmented reality portal called LEGO AR Playgrounds, an app through which kids can access “mixed reality experiments” from the company. The portal is only available on iOS at this time, leveraging LEGO’s blocky world and combining it with AR tech to slot virtual worlds into the real world.LEGO plans to release some of its LEGO sets and other unspecified “experiences...

It’s easy to be envious of the leaders of Fortune 500 companies. They get paid millions of dollars, and they have the power to make transformative decisions for some of the most beloved companies in the corporate world.Despite the obvious benefits of being a top CEO, it’s a job that comes with immense pressure, scrutiny, and time commitments. Further, the lack of work-life balance can take a...

Lil'roach (Pack Scooter) is an electric scooter with a very good man-machine size. It is compact and small enough to fit completely in a backpack and is ideal for use in the city.Public transport network has been very perfect today , we can quickly and easily reach the purpose of the vicinity. Usually the bus or subway station, people need to walk or transfer to other modes of transport, but th...

Daniel Carlmatz is a Stockholm based graphic designer and in 2017 he did a wordplay challenge, his goal was to create typographic logos inspired by commonly used words. Daniel’s work radiates simplicity and proves that design can be inspired by such little things as a letter or an ordinary shape. From a latter ‘j’ in a word ‘jazz’ becoming a saxophone to a latter ‘a’ turning into a small...

The industry as a whole is embracing new opportunities—even as dangers lurk.The year ahead will be an awakening after the reckoning of 2018—a time for fashion companies to look at opportunities and not just at surmounting challenges. The ones that will succeed will have come to terms with the fact that in the new paradigm taking shape around them, some of the old rules simply don’t work. Reg...

The patent illustrates a new input scheme that turns your finger into a stylus that can be used on the bare skin anywhere adjacent to the smartwatch.Modern smartwatches are getting more efficient and compact by the day. This inherent miniaturisation, however, presents a number of ergonomic issues. It’s difficult to use the touchscreen interface with any degree of accuracy and reliability, espe...

Altria Group Inc., the maker of Marlboro cigarettes for the U.S. market, is pushing into the Canadian cannabis industry, marking the major tobacco company’s first foray into the nascent sector. Shares of cannabis peers gained on the news.Altria agreed to acquire 146.2 million newly issued shares for C$16.25 each -- a 16 percent premium from yesterday’s close. That would give Altria a 45 perce...