Former Shop Direct boss Mark Newton-Jones was waxing lyrical about the rise of mobile shopping at our sister magazine Drapers’ Fashion Summit last week.

Former Shop Direct boss Mark Newton-Jones was waxing lyrical about the rise of mobile shopping at our sister magazine Drapers’ Fashion Summit last week.

Almost a third of the Littlewoods owner’s web visits now come from mobile, with traffic up 260% year-on-year.

To highlight how smartphones are changing the world, Newton-Jones showed a video of Google’s Project Glass which was awarded Time magazine’s invention of the year this month

I’m sure some of you must have seen this before; it’s Google’s augmented reality glasses which display information in a smartphone-like format and allows wearers to interact online using voice commands.

However, it’s a good excuse to show the video again as it’s pretty cool and it feels like revisiting Back to The Future knowing that this product really exists.

Google glasses highlights how smartphones are changing the world