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Yoox Net-a-Porter SpA climbed on its debut after the Web distributors of Prada totes and Burberry trenchcoats combined to create the world’s largest online luxury retailer

Yoox agreed in March to buy Net-a-Porter from Cie. Financiere Richemont SA in an all-stock transaction.

competition intensifies in Web retailing of luxury goods

Launched last week, Hanx Writer turns your iPad into an old-fashioned typewriter, offering a pseudo-analog typing experience. The bangs of key presses, hard returns and the chimes that sound when you reach the end of a new line now sit alongside modern conveniences 

Gimenez’s take is “shoppable Instagram:” an app that uses image recognition and a large collection of retailers — 400-500 merchants selling over two million items from upwards of 15,000 brands — to create a more engaging and ultimately more fruitful social commerce experience.

Social commerce, the idea of buying products listed on social media sites, is huge in Asia.

“When you see anything online or on Instagram, the frustration is that you can’t shop even when people are using it as merchants,

Burberry – moving from digital prowess to e-commerce leadership

Burberry’s spent a lot on digital over the years, but it hasn’t achieved the e-commerce leadership it aspires to. CEO Christopher Bailey wants to change that.

In financial terms, that translates into an expectation that e-commerce strategy will drive a third of revenue growth over the coming three years. That’s only going to be possible if the firm can achieve its stated objective of creating more personalized customer experiences, online and offline.

The term “enhancing underwear” might summon images of go-go-gadget pants that help you run faster and jump higher, but it actually refers to a new breed of briefs that promise you a bigger bulge. Push-up bras and “butt-lifters” have long been a staple of women’s lingerie aisles, but genital scaffolding has now spread to menswear. Featured in the V&A exhibition, the “Wonderjock” is the work of Australian company AussieBum and aims to do for men’s bits what the Wonderbra did for women’s busts – hoisting them up and thrusting them out.

US army researchers have developed smart underwear, with sensors secreted inside elastic waistbands that track heart rate, body temperature and perspiration, and beam the stats back to a central monitor. This “wear-and-forget” sensory system is also designed for stressful training situations, identifying which soldiers remain more balanced, so they can be picked for the harder missions.

Underwear is already a common place for smuggling drugs of the illegal variety, but a recent pharmaceutical innovation could soon make putting pills in your pants a legitimate activity. Swiss textile giant Schoeller has developed a fabric that administers drugs to the surface of your skin over time, and thinks the best place to put it is in your undies – as those are the garments you’re least likely to forget to put on.

architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms

The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,

a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.

how soon will it be illegal to operate human-driven cars on public streets?

autonomous vehicles will also be able to share information with each other better than human drivers can, in both real-time situations and over time. Every car on the road will benefit from what every other car has learned. Driving will be a networked activity, with tighter feedback loops and a much greater ability to aggregate, analyze, and redistribute knowledge.

when thousands and then even millions of cars are connected in this way, new capabilities are going to emerge.

Consumers in China spent $116.8 billion on luxury goods abroad in 2015

This translates to 46% of the global volume of high-end goods, which includes branded leather goods, cosmetics and electronics, according to consultants at Beijing-based Fortune Character Group, which derived these figures from the revenues of some 20,000 brands.

The government says that 120 million Chinese tourists — just about 1% of the population — went overseas in 2015, and contributed to 12% of global spending on their holidays.

body of the concept car is designed to maximize aerodynamic efficiency and is constructed primarily out of recycled materials

BMW has also eliminated to wood and leather from the its interiors to promote sustainable manufacturing.

The BMW design study also incorporates full autonomous and manual driving modes, called "Ease" and "Boost" modes.

Maybe this is because I’m young, but, like, I don’t think that there is a lot about my personal life that I wouldn’t want to incorporate into what I’m doing professionally,”