Gearing Towards A Smart Construction Site

Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are developing software that would enable a robot assistant to help on construction sites. Based on the Husky A200 research platform, the mobile robot uses new navigational software to carry out autonomous logistics tasks. Robots are already moving into our homes and soon they may be helping to […]

7 Ways to Improve Your Appointment System as a Small Business

Service companies often waste significant amounts of time and resources managing appointments. Taking bookings is an essential business task. And although the time required to schedule a single appointment is minimal, over weeks and months employees can easily spend hours on the phone dealing with customers. Fortunately, there’s a better way. Virtually all businesses can benefit from modern apps and […]

Sustainable Wedding Trends

If you’re attending any weddings in 2020, prepare to see eco-friendly touches everywhere from the fashion to the food to the favors. Etsy just released its top seven predictions for the biggest wedding trends of 2020, based on search data and insight from experts — and at the heart of the list was sustainability. And in November, The Knot released […]

7 Eleven Runs Trial For Futuristic Store

Convenience stores that rely on technology instead of cashiers to keep things ticking over might sound like a futuristic notion, but there are a number of such concepts being tested around the world. 7-Eleven is the latest to enter the fray, today announcing a trial of a new store in Texas that will be unstaffed with customers left to their […]

4 Ways Manufacturing Is Going Green

The manufacturing industry doesn’t exactly have a reputation for their sustainable efforts. Luckily, a modern push for environmentally friendly alternatives to wasteful or harmful practices has begun to change this. Keep reading to learn four ways that manufacturing is going green. 1. Ditching Old-Fashioned Factories When you think of sustainability, the last thing you might think of is oversized, loud, […]

Circular Economy Exclusive

Brands that don’t embrace the circular economy will go out of business, according to Dutch designer Richard Hutten. Speaking at the Warsaw Home fair in Poland last week, Hutten said that consumers are demanding sustainable products. Companies that don’t respond will fail, he said. “If you don’t have a circular business, you won’t have a business,” he said. “If companies […]