The Gear Patrol Podcast is our weekly roundtable discussion focused on products, their stories, and the culture surrounding them.
Today we're talking about the mystery behind Ferrari hiring famed Apple product designer Jony Ive and his design firm: will he be designing the Italian brand's first electric car, or a new luxury accessory line, or… something else? Then we discuss the growing popularity of livestream shopping: especially during the pandemic, many commerce brands and outlets have taken to livestream video interfaces through which viewers can buy products being discussed...as they're being discussed. Is this a trend, or is livestream shopping here to stay? And we finish with physical biometric security keys: the company Yubico has released a fingerprint-scanning USB dongle that acts as an additional level of security when you're logging in to stuff on your laptop. Is this viable tech for average consumers, or too clunky to adopt in the mainstream?
Show Notes:
Episode Navigation:
02:41 – Ferrari Hires Jony Ive and Marc Newson
17:45 – Is Livestream Shopping... a Thing?
30:08 – Yubico's New Biometric Security Dongles
Featured and Related:
- Former Apple design boss Jony Ive partners with Ferrari – Road Show
- Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is now designing expensive things for Ferrari, too – The Verge
- Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s LoveFrom joins forces with Ferrari – Wallpaper
- Ferrari to partner with Jony Ive’s new design firm on its first electric car – Fast Company
- Apple Had Some Crazy Ideas About the Car of the Future – Gear Patrol
- The Most Iconic Apple Products Designed by Jony Ive – Gear Patrol
- Ford 021C Concept Car by Marc Newson
- Is Live-Stream Shopping the Future of Retail? – WSJ
- Livestream shopping is the next big thing in retail – Fortune
- It’s showtime! How live commerce is transforming the shopping experience – McKinsey
- Whatnot raises another $150M for its livestream shopping platform, evolves into a unicorn – TechCrunch
- Op-ed: Live commerce’s secret sauce, decoded – Glossy
- This Live-Stream Entertainment Shopping Company Wants to Bring Live-Host Commerce to the World – Investorideas.com
- NTWRK - How Mobile Video Digital Shopping Is Shaping The Future Of Ecommerce – Forbes
- New Global Start up Shopstream Rolls Out B2C Live Social Marketplace – Business Wire
- New Yubico security keys let you use fingerprints instead of passwords – Ars Technica
- Eric Limer weighs in via Slack
- Best security key 2021: Protect your online accounts – ZDnet
- Titan Security Key – Google Cloud
- Fingerprint ID in YubiKey Bio security key helps banish passwords – CNET
- Yubico’s new hardware key features a fingerprint reader for passwordless logins – TechCrunch
- What are security keys, how do they work, and which is the best to buy? – Pocket-lint
- How to use a two-factor security key – The Verge
- The Best Security Key for Multi-Factor Authentication – Wirecutter
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