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16:9: Superdry’s Berlin Flagship Tries On Gesture-based Virtual Dressing Room

Via Retail Design Blog I have mixed feelings about an interactive virtual dressing room-ish display set up at the new Berlin flagship store of apparel retailer Superdry. Put together by London-based SeymourPowell, it’s touted as an interactive “smart mirror” but the display is not a mirror and doesn’t use mirror glass … so, umm, it’s not. […]

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Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:15 AM

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Future Interfaces Lab Pairs Phones To Big Touch Displays Using Just The Phone Camera

Finding a seamless link between digital signage/interactive displays and smartphones has so far been something of a bridge too far – the problems being a need for certain technologies to be included or installed on the phone. A new system from the Future Interfaces Group research lab at Carnegie Mellon University takes a run at the challenge, with interesting results. […]

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Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:12 AM

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16:9: Retail Strategist: We’re Moving Away From Gimmickry And Gadgetry

I love this quote in the Toronto Star, from the head of Retail Strategy for Accenture in Canada: “(We’re going to be) moving away from some of the gimmicky and gadgetry that we’ve seen until now, like digital screens you can interact with but they don’t really add to the experience,” said Kelly Askew. Yeah. Exactly. […]

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Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:16 PM

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Hungary’s Telenor Uses IntuiLab’s DIY Tools To Build Interactive Shopper Experiences

The Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor has opened 13 digital concept stores this year that try to bridge how their customers work with them on mobile and on desktops, with interactive digital stations in the store. […]

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Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:59 PM

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16:9: NYC’s Transit Uses Own Subway Kiosks To Market Transit Souvenirs

NYC’s Transit department has taken an interesting approach to monetizing the interactive kiosks on many of its subway platforms – selling souvenir items from its own museum. […]

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Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:09 AM

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Air Transat, Moment Factory Team Up On Experiential Kiosks At Montreal’s Main Airport

Montreal’s Moment Factory, the experiential media agency, is involved with charter vacations air carrier Air Transat, also based in Montreal, on a new permanent installation interactive installation at that city’s main airport. […]

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Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:13 PM

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Ebay Creates Big Digital Experiences For New Silicon Valley Campus Welcome Center

A new central building on the Silicon Valley campus of ecommerce giant eBay, called Main Street, serves as the main gateway and front door for the company. It’s a technology-rich building intended to drive brand identity, capture the rapid pulse of the company and more practically provide much-needed flexible, well-equipped spaces for hosted meetings, conferences, and events. […]

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Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM

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NBA Fan Zone Virtual Bobble Heads Find Their Way To OKC Highway Billboard

The interactive touchscreen thing at sports venues is not new, but there’s a few things Philly-based MVP Interactive did with Cox Communications and the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder that are kinda cool: Fans make their personal, albeit virtual bobbleheads; A sensor called the vert jump mat measured how high fans can jump (vertical leap is kind of important for b-ball); The fan images got tied in with a Lamar digital billboard in the city. […]

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Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:08 AM

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16:9: Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy

  A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will help settle on choices. […]

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Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:40 PM

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16:9: Smart Mirrors Hit Consumer Mainstream

A Taiwan-based electronics firm has started shipping a $189 smart mirror aimed at the consumer market that looks like the sort of thing some mid-tier retailers would like to have at their cosmetic counters. […]

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Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:54 AM

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16:9: Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No

Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump an tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. […]

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Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:05 AM

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Projects: Making Visitor Guestbooks Better By Going Digital

Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. […]

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Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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Volanti, BrightSign Pair Up On Snappy 4K Interactive Displays

The specialty display firm Volanti Displays, a spinoff from Digital View, has developed a set of 4K touchscreen panels that are designed to work and easily mount with one of BrightSign‘s higher-powered media players. BrightSign’s new Series 3 XT players have been set up to work with Volanti’s 55″, 65″, 84″ and 98″ 4K panels. […]

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Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:27 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Schneider, ESI Design

I had a chance last week to tour the New York studio and offices for ESI Design, which has done some amazing experiential digital work in public spaces, as well as museums and in retail settings. […]

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Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:04 AM

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Walmart Testing Giant Digital Vending Machine For In-Store Pick-ups

Photo Credit: Field Agent There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. […]

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Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:09 AM

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