Well, it has been a busy December. Our firm has been cranking out proposals for kiosks and digital signage like mad men! This is the time of year when many corporations need to either spend money by the end of the year, or they are taking the slow time at the holidays to start planning [...]
As a follow up to my last post, the interaction of cell phones and kiosks or digital signage can be made real by existing technology. Bluetooth and SMS are the most common ways to interact. These can be integrated into many kiosk projects via partners such as BlueFire Digital. I became aware of BlueFire in February [...]
This NPR story is very interesting and talks about the use of a cell phone as a boarding pass. Essentially a message is sent to your phone with a 2 dimensional bar code that is your boarding pass information, and the ticket agent scans the screen just like they would a paper boarding pass you may [...]