Disney, like any company that adapts and rebuilds reality, is a famously controlling place with a frequently difficult culture. So the high-stakes project to re-engineer theme parks with the wearable MagicBand was even more full of internally corporate competition than it might have been at a "normal" company. FastCompany has an exhaustive and exhausting blow-by-blow of how … [Read more...]
Wearable Tech to Replace Cash at Lollapalooza Music Festival
The idea of using a wristband as an identity token in the hospitality industry is not quite new; Disney's using it quite effectively as MagicBands at Walt Disney World. Now, the folks putting on the Lollapalooza music festival this summer in Chicago are doing something similar: giving attendees wristbands that can be linked to credit cards. Wearers can tap the bands to vendors' … [Read more...]