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✨ This week: 

• 🍎 Apple Intelligence and more from Apple Event 2024

• 🛍️ Roblox x Shopify bring Shopping to the Metaverse

• 🎥 DoodlesTV takes NFTs Mainstream with Pharrell Williams

• 🗽 Plus, recapping NYFW—including Prada’s Tech-powered experiences

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🗞️ In this Issue #023

🍎 Apple Event 2024: iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence, AirPods 4

📚 What You Need to Know

Apple’s 2024 "Glowtime" event dropped some major tech bombs September 12:

• iPhone 16 Glow-Up: New button for faster control, AI-powered for real-time content suggestions, and pressure-sensitive for precision shots. 📸 Plus these dreamy new color ways. 🌈

• Apple Intelligence (AI): Visual search for fashion, smarter Siri, and notifications that actually matter. Marketing deserves a raise for that name.💰

  

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• AirPods Pro 2: Gesture controls, spatial audio, and built-in hearing tests (pending FDA approval). 🤯

💡 Why this matters: Apple’s turning your phone into a content creator's dream and transforming shopping with visual search. Oh, and smarter AI means Siri is going to be your new assistant.

Watch the full Apple Event below 👇

Read more on Tech Crunch

🛒 Roblox Teams Up with Shopify bringing Physical Product Shopping in Game

📚 What you need to know

Roblox (gaming platform where users create and play games) partnered with Shopify (e-commerce platform) to bring physical product shopping into virtual worlds.

This partnership allows brands to tap into Gen Z’s digital-first lifestyle.

Key Features Include:

• In-Game Shopping: Shopify sellers can sell physical products in Roblox.

• Brands Testing It: E.l.f. Cosmetics (read more) and Vans are already in on the action.

• Next Up: More e-commerce platforms, plus a price optimization tool for sellers.

💡 Why this matters: Roblox just made virtual shopping a reality—perfect for Gen Z and Alpha. Brands that jump in now will dominate the future of retail.

Read more on Retail Dive

🎥 Doodles: NFTs Go Mainstream Entertainment with Pharrell Wililams

📚 What you need to know

Doodles, an iconic NFT collection, launched DoodlesTV, blending NFTs, music, and animation for immersive Web3 entertainment.

Key Features Include:

• Premiere: "Dullsville and the Doodleverse" debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, featuring Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, Swae Lee, Lil Yachty, and Coi Leray.

• Access: The DoodlesTV Super Pass (0.0021 ETH) on the Base network offers exclusive content, including early access to the film and music videos.

• NFT Benefits: Original Doodles NFT holders get priority access to premieres, events, and Doodles Records content.

• Collaborations: Partnerships with Adidas, Crocs, G-Shock, and Arizona Green Tea bring Doodles into fashion and lifestyle..

• Pharrell’s Role: As Chief Brand Officer and Louis Vuitton’s Men's Creative Director, Pharrell elevates Doodles in both fashion and entertainment.

💡 Why this matters: Doodles is pushing NFTs into the entertainment and fashion mainstream. With Pharrell as Chief Brand Officer, they’re setting the stage for Web3 to meet fashion in a way no other brand has yet.

Read more on NFT NOW

Last week, I was busy catching up on content from my whirlwind NYFW experience, but the Digital Fashion + Fashion Tech Edition! ✨

• 🪩 Kicked things off with Digital Fashion Designers' Council Fashion Week Connect Event & Digital Fashion Week—The Digital Fashion Revolution is here and coming to the masses. 👀

• 🌸 Visited Prada’s Paradoxe Virtual Flower Lab, where fragrances created with AI and AR Mirrors + Filters created the vibes. Tech + Luxury Beauty? Yes, please. 😍🫡 

• 🎁 BONUS: Being that Fashion Tech Girlie showing you NYFW with my Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Use my link to shop 🛒 here.

• Samsung AI Fashion Tech Exhibit: 🔥 content dropping this week—stay tuned on social! 👀

@janeypark

🗣️ NYFW has been “Hey Meta, Take Video” 😂 👓 @raybanmeta 📚How to use Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses • AI Assistant 🤖 • Listening to Music 🎶 ... See more

Great to meet friends IRL (Patricia + Wildy + Missing Adriana—check out their amazing AI Fashion) and new ones—Digital Fashion is growing stronger every day. 💪🤝

Next up:

• Stand With Crypto event in DC with The Chainsmokers 🎶

• Book signing Connie Chung: My role model + mentor (unofficial for now). 🥲 She’s been my inspiration for writing and building this media brand. 🏀 

• Time to shoot my shot. What should I say?! 💭

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