If you haven’t already heard, the next Kiosk trade show will be October 15 – 16, 2008 in New York city at the Javits Center. This is the largest kiosk show and also includes digital signage, which is so often part of kiosk projects, or at least provided by the same vendors such as our [...]
What is a kiosk? Sounds like a simple question, but different people have perspectives that are relative to their world. The other day our designer answered the phone after hours and spoke to a person who was looking for a kiosk. After much discussion, he determined she was looking for a kiosk booth like you [...]
I’ve been musing for some time now about kiosks and the ability to go Green. Last year, IBM announced that they were going to make their new IBM AnyPlace kiosks more Green and environmentally friendly. At first you think… it’s a computer, how green could it be? Well, for starters they are using more recycled plastic, lower [...]
Recently we traveled to pitch a kiosk concept to a very large prospect and the meetings went well. We brought along an IBM AnyPlace kiosk to demonstrate some of our recent custom kiosk applications to the client, which we do often. It gives them an idea of the type of applications they could build, [...]
Well I’ve spent the past two days exploring the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. I was there initially for a meeting of the advisory board of the Digital Signage Association of which I sit on the board. The Expo was a very large show this year. It was double the size of past expos, as the digital signage [...]
Design is an interesting thing because it is so subjective. Everyone has an opinion on design, what they like, what they prefer, even if they don’t understand what drives their opinions. Sometimes kiosk interface design can become very complex, hard to navigate, and frankly too much to look at. Often simple is better. Better because [...]
I was recently told to go check out a kiosk at the local “Party Source” retail store. So my salesperson and I head over at lunch and find the “Virtual Bartender” kiosk. It’s a very well done point of purchase retail kiosk that is setup on an end cap. It has a good use of [...]
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 [...]