Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft Surface’

Visualizing finances

Posted by dball on October 14th, 2009 under Digital Signage, Hardware, Retail Banking, content Tags: , ,  •  2 Comments

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There’s no doubt about it: Microsoft Surface-type computing interfaces are compelling. The idea of taking graphics and data and then moving them, bumping them, merging them — it’s a way of interacting with computers that we have only been able to picture in movies.
But so far, we’ve mostly [...]

Alternative multi-touch interactive surfaces

Posted by dball on July 17th, 2009 under Digital Signage, Software, content, customer experience Tags: , , , ,  •  2 Comments

Looking to get into multi-touch interactive? Apparently, you’ve got options beyond Microsoft Surface, including building one yourself. That’s what Maximum PC did, assembling a used PC, some infrared LEDs, a PS3 Eye camera and a projector. The cost? $350. You can see a demo below or go to the blog post, which documents the design [...]

Scratching the surface?

Posted by dball on March 9th, 2009 under Content management, Digital Signage, Marketing, Merchandising, Retail Banking, Software Tags: , , , ,  •  3 Comments

If you talk to technology providers, the future is very technology centric. Take this video from Microsoft, which depicts a bank in which mobile devices, biometrics, interactive digital signage and well-trained employees all come together into a elegant choreography:

Not sure who has the budget for this kind of implementation, but it certainly does impress. So [...]