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 [...]
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 [...]
If you read my last post, I ranted about kiosks that are not working. Sometimes that is due to hardware failures, and sometimes those failures are not the fault of the hardware provider. Any time you have electronics plugged into A/C outlets there is a risk of lightening strikes, power surges, brown outs, and more [...]
You’ve probably seen a kiosk that has an error message on screen or even a kiosk that has a blank screen. A non functioning kiosk is worse than no kiosk at all. It undermines the consumer’s trust in a reliable source of content or their trust in the capabilities of the provider. Sure, we all [...]