Amazon exploring to use virtual and augmented reality in its soon-to-be opened brick-and-mortar stores

Unlike its regular bookstores, these new ones are likely to include electronic hardware and services too. Amazon’s plan of dominating the retail landscape could extend well beyond just books and groceries. The New York Times has reported citing sources familiar with the matter at hand, that the world’s biggest online retailer is “exploring” the possibility…

Amazon’s drone delivery service could drop-off your package with a parachute

Although Amazon has successfully tested its drone delivery service in a remote area in the UK, doing so in an urban cityscape is lot more challenging. Rest assured that Amazon’s engineers are slaving away at a solution to this complex problem. Amazon’s much anticipated drone deliveries have finally become reality. Going by a new patent…

Amazon asks FCC permission to test its wireless communication device

Looks like Amazon is gearing up for Prime Air. According to an application proposal found by Business Insider to the FCC, online retail giant, Amazon.com has a mysterious project, and it has requested the FCC permission to test a wireless communication technology, five months ahead of its research. Although it appears that Amazon has purposefully…

Amazon’s patent reveals its vision of giant flying warehouses serviced by a fleet of drones

While the flying warehouses will carry Amazon’s goodies, smaller drones will shuttle up and down to service consumers as well as for restocking purposes. Amazon’s flying ambitions doesn’t just stop with drone deliveries, the world’s largest online retailer has dreams of launching big floating warehouses close to crowded areas and happenings, like sporting events. While…

Amazon delivers its first package delivery through a drone

Intensively tested in its secret labs in Cambridge, UK, Amazon drone delivery service will further push the retailers and shippers in streamlining their operations. Having waited patiently for three long years for Amazon to reveal its bold plan of delivering packages through drones, the world’s largest online retailer has done what many had thought is…

Mobile shopping touches $1.2 billion in Black Friday sales

For the first time, shoppers took to their smartphones to snag exclusively deals from retailers such as, Amazon, Walmart and Target. If you shopped on your smartphone during this holiday shopping season, it turns out, you are one among those trend setter who have increasingly adopted their smartphones for their shopping spree. According to Adobe,…