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Intel Retail Digital Signage Concept

One of the more interesting things to come out of the NRF convention last week was a retail digital signage proof-of-concept from Intel.

The prototype system combines a translucent holographic overlay display next to a more traditional LCD screen, allowing for different types of interactive content to be delivered on the different screens. The concept demo [...]

Miele Inspirience Center

I recently came across an interesting interactive retail experience in The Netherlands from Miele called the Miele Inspirience Center (I’ll withhold comment on the pun.) Miele manufactures and sells a wide variety of residential appliances and commercial equipment.

Because they are a high-end durable goods maker, the purchase decision for their products is a fairly reasoned [...]

MicroTiles Video Walls

A couple of months back we were working with a couple of strategic partners on a proposed solution for a  client and through that process we talked to a bunch of hardware vendors about various interactive technologies that could be built into architectural spaces. One of the people that we talked to was a rep [...]

Medtronic HRS Conference Tables & Wall

We’ve written in this space about numerous multitouch table and wall experiences. While that’s not the only type of interactive experience we are interested in, it’s certainly a technology that we’re excited about and that we see enormous potential for. As time goes by the evidence in support of our belief that these types of [...]

Multitouch Spheres

I recently came across an interesting video of a colorful fluid/particle simulation within a multitouch sphere, posted by an arts collective in the UK called Seeper. It’s a nice piece of interactive art, although apparently still a work in progress.

I haven’t heard much about the Microsoft sphere that “surfaced” (pun presumably intented) last year in [...]