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The article presents products for gifts including BeoPlay A1 speaker from manufacturing company Bang & Olufsen A/S, Uashmama Metallic Paper Bag from home goods store Fern and Orange Fuzz Black Lodge Wine Soap from creators Jessi Lalk and Amanda Poston.

The article offers information on the Beosound A5 wireless speaker from Bang & Olufsen.

Presents updates on interior design in Australia as of September 2002. Information on several decorative items; Launch of the Flexform and Pullacoitalia furniture line in conjunction with Bang & Olufsen; Introduction of the Roadtester wristwatch by Cartier.

An interview with Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi, the Danish-Italian design duo is presented. They discusses their collaboration with Bang & Olufsen on the Beosound A5 speaker, emphasizing the importance of combining natural materials, respecting the company's history, and creating a unique design. They also highlight their approach to working with different brands while maintaining their Scandinavian design identity and values.

The article focuses on how detailed studies illustrate the diversity of ways to improve product quality by nurturing usability issues and focuses on three U.S. companies, International Business Machine Corp. (IBM), American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Microsoft Corp. Usability engineering and testing blossomed in the U.S. in the mid 1980's. At the time, testing was viewed as another variation of software quality assurance testing. In Scandinavia the approach to usability has different roots, involving users informally in the design process rather than having them participate in a formal usability program. In this article we provide an overview of the practices of usability groups in the three U.S. and the three Danish companies featured in this section. Based on their practices, the article discusses usability groups relations to developers and users and examine some differences between these groups and between countries. Danish companies, Bang & Olufsen (B&O), Danfoss and Kommunedata (KMD) were the first three companies to have lab facilities. As part of "Usability in Danish Industry," studies of usability practices have been conducted in 12 U.S. companies. Most of these studies have a duration of several days and are based upon observations of the work of usability specialists and interviews with a number of different people, including usability managers. The article discusses six different aspects of usability practice and in the accompanying tables provides a profile of the nature of usability practice at these six companies. Tables provide some basis for comparing companies, but since the article is not talking about a quantitative measurement with a fixed scale, there is no basis for an exact comparison.

The article offers news briefs related to the audio equipment industry as of August 1, 2016. Topics discussed include Warner Music Group (WMG) to support Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) file format, acquisition of audio equipment maker Bowers & Wilkins by software firm EVA Automation and launch of the Beolab 90 loudspeaker by Bang & Olufsen.

The article evaluates several audio and video (A/V) systems of Bang & Olufsen (B&O) including the Bang & Olufsen BeoVision Avant 55 Ultra high definition television (HDTV), the Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 18 Speaker System, and the Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 19 Subwoofer.

The article evaluates several creative gift items including Carmen Dragon Statue from the company Ralph Lauren, Montblanc Artisan Limited Edition Pablo Picasso Pen from the company Nagi Jewelers and Bang and Olufsen BeoSound 8 from Bang & Olufsen A/S.