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Augmented reality has many applications in the real world.  People can use it with wearable technology such as Google Glass to create head-up displays for when they perform physical work in an outdoor environment.  However, augmented reality isn’t only limited to wearable tech devices.  Cool product Augment puts the power of augmented reality in the hands of anyone with a smartphone or tablet.  Augment allows people to impose 3D models or prototypes that they create onto the physical world.  Users can view how their models would appear as real-world objects and get a better idea of how they would look before investing money to create a physical item.  Read more »

Shopping online for clothing is simultaneously incredibly convenient and potentially worrying.  While there is no question that purchasing items online and having sites deliver them directly to someone’s front door is far easier for people than going to the local mall, the question about how a particular item of clothing will fit is constantly in the back of many online shoppers’ minds.  Buyers just can’t guarantee that an item is going to fit the way they need it to when they spend their hard-earned cash online.  Cool product in technology Virtusize wants to change this reality for the millions of users buying clothes online every day.  Virtusize helps customers accurately measure the clothing they are shopping for online so they can ensure it will fit when it arrives at home.  People access the specialized online tool through the websites of affiliated online retailers.  Users click the “Virtusize” button on these websites when shopping for clothes to access this cool product.  Anyone who can’t access Virtusize on a site that advertises its use needs to contact a tech support professional to determine what is causing the problem. Read more »

Gamification is becoming a major trend in the worlds of technology and retail.  Gaining points and rewards for your purchases is now a standard practice for many large chain stores or shopping websites in every retail category.  However, most of the time the goal of earning points simply leads to future discounts on more merchandise from the same store.  While customers might appreciate those discounts, cool person in technology Daniel Todd believes that it would be even better if customers could get rewards from shopping that would not be easily attainable otherwise.  Todd’s company Affinity offers retail companies a system where their customers don’t just receive discounts or merchandise from the same store they are already shopping at, but instead receive exclusive and unique rewards donated by celebrities. Under Todd’s system, people can shop at retail locations affiliated with Affinity and earn points for each purchase at each of those stores.  People can then use those points to get special and unique prizes from their favorite celebrities on the Affinity platform.  Users can access Affinity’s shop through the company’s web platform on their computers or mobile devices.  Any users experiencing difficulty while trying to access Todd’s rewards platform should contact a network services provider for help with their connection. Read more »

Many independent crafters, artists, clothing designers and inventors desire a physical retail location to sell their artwork or products.  Unfortunately, finding affordable and reasonably located retail space is not as easy as it sounds.  Cool product Storefront is an online space that aims to make the process of finding store locations easier for smaller retailers and artists who want to sell their goods.  Users simply log on to the Storefront website and browse detailed listings in multiple cities for different storefront locations.  Read more »

Retail chains with franchised stores often struggle to keep a consistent experience across all of their locations.  While a store in one city may have excellent staff who keep up with many issues, another may have rude staff or have problems with tracking inventory.  Corporations spend millions of dollars each year at trying to get all of their different stores to give customers as similar experiences as possible.  Still, it’s impossible for companies to fix problems when they are unaware of them.  Cool person in technology Bob Bahramipour wants to make sure that retail chains never miss issues in their retail stores again with his company GigWalk.  Read more »

Men notoriously dislike shopping for clothing. Then along came the Hointer Beta Store, adding robots to the equation to make the experience as fast and simple as ordering a cup of coffee! Yes—you heard right—robots! Read more »

Many of us have had our wallets filled passed capacity with a seemingly endless amount of customer loyalty and rewards cards from popular retailers.  Punchkeeper is a cool product that wants to make loyalty cards more convenient for both the companies that promote them and the customers that use them.  Punchkeeper uses a combination of mobile technology and QR code scanning so that businesses can easily set up a digital loyalty card system for their clients.  This service provides businesses with the tools to generate special QR codes that their customers can scan each time they use a service or buy a product.  Once customers scan a designated QR code with a mobile phone, the Punchkeeper mobile app recognizes the code and adds a “punch” to the appropriate digital loyalty card.  This solution prevents customers from having to fill their wallets with plastic cards that they almost never use.  Another advantage to turning loyalty cards digital is that retailers can avoid spending the resources to print thousands of cards or dealing with customers that lose or forget them when they come to shop.  Anyone who has issues downloading the Punchkeeper app or getting QR codes to scan properly can get help from a smartphone PC support company. Read more »