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Yesterday,   Best Buy   opened the first of its new  digital-based concept store , which is focused on creating a sleek and simplistic shopping experience while also saving floor space. It’s a 5,000-square-foot storefront that displays a selection of products in home audio and theater, cellphones, wearables and more electronic departments for customers to get a hands-on feel before deciding whether or not to purchase.  Once ready to buy, customers can scan the product’s QR code and employees — known as Blue Shirts — will fetch it from the back storage room and bring it out to complete the purchase. This simplistic and space-saving approach to shopping could wind up being a trend among the retail industry, especially if this concept by Best Buy proves to be successful. In other news, Shopify announced yesterday that it would be laying off 10 percent of its staff — roughly 1,000 employees —citing a lack of growth prospects. These layoffs will mostly apply to ...

When my editor asked me to review the   Fieldsheer Adventure Heated Jacket , my first thought was: What could go wrong by walking around with an electric heater attached to my chest? Would wearing the jacket in the rain somehow turn me into a piece of human bacon? Obviously, the engineers of this jacket had the foresight to create a product that wouldn’t accidentally electrocute the user, and, in truth, the Fieldsheer Adventure Heated Jacket is an amazing example of tech’s expansion into non-traditional industries. Unboxing Upon  unboxing , I was amazed by the discreetness of the heating coils. The material of the jacket retains all the flexibility of a traditional article of clothing, and if I hadn’t known better, I wouldn’t have suspected that there was anything special about it. The Fieldsheer Adventure Heated Jacket comes with an instruction manual, the Powersheer™ XL Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery, and a USB-C charging cable. The battery itself is the size of a large sm...