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E-book Reader Wars

April 29, 2010 – 1:51 PM

The battle between e-book readers is heating up. TUAW reports that e-book reader manufacturers shipped more Nooks to Barnes & Noble than Kindles to Amazon in March. This could indicate that the Nook is overtaking the Kindle in popularity, however the numbers are not completely accurate since Barnes & Noble maintains a stock of [...]

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Audi’s Digital Showroom

March 26, 2010 – 2:32 PM

Audi’s new digital showroom is a small but important step forward for automotive retail.  I’ve worked with several brands over the years in auto show environments where car companies invest millions in elaborate, teched out “booths” but at the end of the day they have a hard time realizing a measurable ROI on their investment. [...]

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Lego Store: Digital Box

March 17, 2010 – 5:49 PM

The Lego store has a fun and inspirational digital station that allows customers (mom and kids) to visualize the end result of a Lego environment. The Digital Box uses augmented reality technology to visually recognize the box art through a webcam, bringing to life the toy as an animation rendered on top of box within [...]

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Intel Retail Digital Signage Concept

January 18, 2010 – 11:13 PM

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 [...]

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Miele Inspirience Center

December 4, 2009 – 5:06 PM

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 [...]

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