A showcase for information and communications technology (ICT) firms from around the world, the 18th HKTDC International ICT Expo will comprise specialised zones – Enterprise Solutions, Smart City, Startup, Smart Devices & Accessories, Retail Technologies, Home Grown Innovation and Retail Technologies. The Startup Zone includes 150 tech start-ups from Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Japan, Mainland China, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States.
The recent Guangzhou International Professional Light and Sound Exhibition presented a variety of new products across an array of related fields, including entertainment, architecture, commerce and cultural tourism. Overall, miniaturised, integrated and portable intelligent products dominated, while outdoor items – unsurprisingly given the pandemic – also showed considerable growth.
The wholescale migration of business and leisure interests to the online realm driven by the protracted global COVID-19 lockdowns has seen rejuvenated sales in the personal-computer sector, a development that has proven a huge boon to many of Taiwan’s high-tech manufacturers.
Little knowing just how imminently contactless‑payment facilities and anything that digitally facilitated distance-working would be mandatorily in vogue, this year’s United Kingdom Wearable Technology Show took place in those long-ago phony war months, a time when it was blithely assumed some distant Asian ailment would never have the temerity to extend its tentacles to Europe. How little we knew.
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