Athletic training optimized by connecting activity to action On the 9th Of September 2021, nine international selected start-ups took part in the Wear It Innovation Award Show. For the 3rd time, Wear it Berlin is giving the chance to innovative start-ups in the field of wearable technology to pitch their business cases to a high-class... Read More
On 15th July 2021, Wear It Berlin celebrates the 1st anniversary of the Wear It Live virtual event series. With a total of 18 online events so far, the Wear It Live series has been a great success story. It brought together more than 2500 participants, over 100 speakers and 50+ startups. Last year in... Read More
Most of the time when you start a business, it’s a super tricky and time-consuming endeavour. You’ve worked so hard to come up with your unique and innovative idea, transform it into a deliverable product or service, and now you have to iron out things like hiring staff, renting premises, setting up email addresses, and... Read More
22
Jun
Social Media and SexTech
Social media is an intrinsic part of our modern world (particularly in these COVID-19 times). It’s how we keep in touch with friends: seeing pictures or posts about what’s happening in their lives. We get targeted ads that are cleverly designed from the data we knowingly (or perhaps, unwittingly) provide to the social media giants... Read More
With 220+ registrations from 35+ countries and a turnout ratio of 61%, the Sextech Summit 2021 kicked off on the 15th of June for a three-day online event series bringing together experts of different industries around the topic of SexTech. Wear it Berlin proudly hosted a startup show on Wednesday 16th June, enabling ten pre-selected... Read More
14
Jun
Disability and SexTech
Sex technology is already a hugely challenging and stigmatised industry. In spite of the enormous profit to be made, investors still hesitate to get involved in these projects and even talking about sex can make people in general feel uncomfortable. For people living with a disability, these problems can be even more profound when it... Read More
The sex technology industry faces more unique opportunities and challenges than most other industries. There is enormous demand for sex technology products, with the industry projected to grow from US$28.6 billion in 2019 to US$52.7 billion by 2016. The sex technology industry has enormous capacity for what tech innovators call ‘unicorns’: which is when a... Read More
Sex technology suffers a great deal of stigma and censorship. The general rhetoric surrounding the industry is focused entirely on smart toys and technologically-enhanced orgasms. While of course these are large and important focuses, sex technology goes far beyond this. Bryony Cole – the world’s leading authority on sex technology – told Dynamic Business that... Read More
Blockchain has become such a buzzword that it can be hard to understand how it can be used in any industry, let alone sex technology. Countless innovators like to throw this term around, adding to the hype but also to the confusion of those who aren’t yet sure how it works. Essentially, blockchain is an... Read More
Science fiction and popular culture would have us believe that robots will soon be indistinguishable from humans and be able to function precisely as a person would. These robots would look, walk, and talk just like a human, and could carry a conversation as normally and effortlessly as we could with a friend. While this... Read More