Touch Screen Gadget

Touchscreen kiosk helps veterans memorial visitors find names

Posted by sawaru | Category: Trend Watch & News

New at the memorial is an electronic kiosk system installed in a masonry-and-glass building west of the large angel sculpture at the memorial. A computer touch-screen advises people where a veteran’s name can be located on the memorial.

Type in the first three letters of someone’s last name and you can find where the plaque is located.

One neat thing about the system is you can find names of living people on the granite tiles on the memorial’s walls, as well as names of veterans who have died. The memorial also includes the name of a Canadian Snowbirds aerial demonstration team pilot, Capt. Shawn McCaughey, who died in a crash while practicing for a show over Malmstrom Air Force Base last year.

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Wine Shelve Sales Supercharged

Posted by admin | Category: Restaurant, Bistro & Shop

Problem: "Almost one-quarter of wine consumers feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choices on store shelves" as published by Progressive Grocery Study March 11, 2008.

Solution: WINE SHELF - a touch screen shopper package specifically designed to increase in-store sales. Range can be linked to store inventory and / or special orders where permitted. In-store / special order items can be selected from a database of over 20,000 wines.

Benefits to the retailer include higher average sale, more frequent purchase, and more repeat customers through better customer service.

The shopper benefits by greater certainty in their wine purchases and the immediate availability of the service even though store personnel may be busy.

The User Interface is extremely friendly and designed by leaders in the kiosk industry. Users can search by region / winery / food type / grape / price. Content includes high quality images, reviews, serving suggestions, etc. Multiple searches and relationship links are enabled including intelligent quantitative factors for “If you like “x”. try “y” or “z”. Options such as Wine Purchase Registry, quantity planned, product location, etc are available.

The content database is updated monthly. Daily updates of range file can be carried out through a feed from the store POS file (option). Detailed measurement and tracking are available.

"This software is unique" said Doug Peter, President of St. Clair Interactive. "It is designed by a company with 26 years experience with touch screen kiosks and linked to a knowledge database that has astonishing depth and coverage".

Too many wine efforts have been static. This is an offering that is as dynamic as the wine market itself!

Widescreen integrated touchscreen kiosk

Posted by admin | Category: Industry, Trend Watch & News

KioskCom Self Service Expo / Digital Signage Show — MediaTile today unveiled the world’s first all-in-one digital signage and kiosk solution, with integrated cellular-broadband networking and web-based management, at the international KioskCom Self Service Expo show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new system, MediaTile Kiosk-in-a-Box™, Marquee Edition, delivers the full impact of a large screen digital signage system and the interactivity of a kiosk system in one integrated package. Now, in one easy to deploy and use environment, retailers and brands can attract consumers to their kiosk, using video and flash playlists on a high-definition, wide-screen display, while still having all the interactivity required for their kiosk-based application. The new system can be viewed in MediaTile’s Booth #306 and in the IBM booth #518 at KioskCom / Digital Signage Show.

"Once again, MediaTile has introduced a revolutionary new promotional and communications solution for retailers, brands and corporations that are interested in attracting and engaging their target audiences," said Keith Kelsen, CEO of The MediaTile Company. "Our new Kiosk-in-a-Box, Marquee Edition, delivers the same breakthrough in the Kiosk market that our award-winning ‘Digital-Sign-in-a-Box‘ system brought to the Digital Signage industry — a fully integrated solution that can easily be deployed and operated by simply adding power."

In a single package, MediaTile’s Kiosk-in-a-Box, Marquee Edition includes the following, fully integrated components.

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Hardee’s ordering at your finger tips

Posted by admin | Category: Restaurant, Bistro & Shop

Customers at two Richmond-area Hardee’s restaurants can use touch-screen kiosks to order and pay for their food.The kiosks are part of a test for franchise operator Boddie-Noell to see whether customer service improves.

"It is really all about speed of service, ordering accurately and giving customers another way to get their order quicker," said Jerry Allsbrook, senior vice president of marketing for Boddie-Noell, the largest Hardee’s franchisee in the U.S. It operates 346 restaurants in four states, including Virginia.

"In our business it is all about speed of service and convenience and shorter lines, and that is really what the kiosk does for us," he said.

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ER efficiency improve using selfhelp check-ins

Posted by admin | Category: Medical, Trend Watch & News

Navater Brown expected to wait hours to see a doctor when she showed up recently at a Newark hospital emergency room with a cut on her leg.

But instead of signing in and waiting to explain her symptoms, Brown was immediately escorted to one of three check-in kiosks in Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s emergency department. The wall-mounted device enabled her to enter her name on a touch screen, along with her birth date, sex and ZIP code.

Brown was then directed to key in the reason for her visit, leading her to select “pain” from a menu of descriptive phrases or terms. Next, she pointed out the problem area, her leg, on an outline of the body - there is one for men, one for women - that popped up on the screen.

With a single touch, Brown’s information was immediately relayed to the emergency department’s main computer, where a nurse reviewed it.

“It was fast and simple,” said Brown, 19, who found herself sitting in front of a nurse within 10 minutes of her arrival.

Kiosks have been used for years elsewhere, such as airports, to speed passengers through check-in. Now they are becoming more common in the health-care setting, especially
hospitals, where half of all emergency rooms are operating at or above capacity.

Administrators are desperately looking for ways to move patients through registration and evaluation faster.

“It cuts out handoffs and drives efficiency improvements,” said Ron Wince, a health-care efficiency.

Infobox create public awareness

Posted by admin | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System, Trend Watch & News

VISITORS to the Kingfisher Centre can access the latest crime prevention advice from West Mercia Constabulary on a new interactive information stand.

The Infobox, the first of its kind for the force, has four touch-screen displays which people can use to log on to current appeals, police news, crime prevention information and job opportunities in the police.

The unmanned information point also warns shoppers about the use of mobile phones when driving, keeping your purse safe when shopping and not to leave sat nav equipment in view when leaving your car.

Insp Ian Joseph, from Redditch police, said the Infobox was part of the force’s commitment to be increasingly accessible by making it easier for the public to contact them for information.

“This will help our local communities interact with us more easily.

“It’s an excellent and exciting initiative, which takes us out into the busiest area of town.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how it’s received but I’m confident people will like it and want to take advantage of it,” he said.

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