Retail loyalty programs—the most prevalent type in consumers’ wallets—help brands develop lasting customer relationships through easy, accessible, and appealing incentives. Co-brand credit cards—issued as partnerships between major brands, banks, and card networks—have long been a key piece of that puzzle: At a 2019 investor meeting, Best Buy listed its credit card as the second-largest dr...

See how the new Walabot DIY 2 visual stud finder exposes everything inside your walls to make home improvement projects faster, easier and safer.One of the first product reviews we did at GearBrain was Walabot DIY Review, a smart stud finder that works in tandem with your Android smartphone to help you find studs, pipes and wires in your walls. It's the perfect do-it-yourself (DIY) tool for hom...

Just like a train adds extra carriages when it’s running on high-capacity, the Polestar Trambus can expand in length to allow more passengers during an exceptionally busy day.The idea for the Trambus comes from Seoul-based transportation design student Junghyun Kim, who developed the design as an entry into the 2021 Polestar Design Contest. Instead of putting more buses on the road during rush...

U.S. patent application, US20210241483, discloses an annotation placement user interface (UI) that includes a representation of a field of view (FoV) of one or more cameras updated based on changes in the FoV. When the placement UI element is placed over a representation of a measurable physical feature in a physical environment, the appearance of the element changes as per the physical feature...

Urth's sliding lipstick comes with a refillable dispenser made up of only five components.A student-led beauty brand has launched a refillable sliding lipstick with sleek, biodegradable packagingSpotted: The beauty and personal care market is constantly growing. Whilst the industry attempts to be more sustainable, single-use plastics continue to be produced, filling up landfills. With the aware...

Younger consumers are opting out of credit cards and into digital payment alternatives.Could paying with a credit card become a thing of the past? Data from NPS PrismSM, Bain's customer experience benchmarking service, shows that over the past year alone, the percentage of US consumers younger than 25 who don’t use a credit card grew by 83%. In fact, when considering the breakdown of market sh...

Voice control, gesture control and myopia friendly, Rokid Air enhances your AR experience and takes games & movies to a whole new level. Rokid Air AR glasses are powerful, intuitive and lightweight enough for daily use. Simply put them on to experience a huge 120'' virtual screen that provides an unprecedented, immersive, multimedia experience for apps, games, and movies. With voice contr...

Music might be a universal language but what sounds like music to one’s ears differs between people and countries.Despite some regional differences occurring in the data collected by the Statista Global Consumer Survey, the works of great classical composers, rock icons and pop divas have reached every corner of the world, as seen by the popularity of these genres around the globe.Despite hip-...

Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019.The Los Angeles-based company, developing subscription software for direct-to-consumer e-commerce merchants, is Siva’s fourth startup experience and first time as founder. He closed a $4 million s...