Boaz Corporation, San Diego, CA, introduces DEMOSCAN, a new affordable interactive technology that works in both permanent and semi-permanent situations. Demoscan’s unique features are its high-quality near DVD presentation, a large 5.6 inch color screen, reliable VCD technology, and its light weight slimline styling that provides easy mounting on slat-wall, end-cap, corrugated and pedestal displays. Replaceable CD provides for over 70 minutes of programming for up to 70 titles. For more information, contact David Ping at the POPAI Show, Booth 8608, or call 1-619-350-4600; FAX: 619-259-9277.
Advanced Kiosk Solutions, Tiffin, Ohio, will be showing its QuickShip5 Kiosk Enclosures. Selections of four distinct kiosk enclosure models are available to ship out within 5 business days. The units are offered in three-color combinations and designed to house the most common kiosk hardware. These units can ship fully assembled and are being developed for "Ready-to-Assemble" format. To learn more about these kiosk enclosures, contact Roman Moszkowicz, at the POPAI Show, Booth 8606; or call 419-447-7448.
Elo TouchSystems and Pearlson Development Corporation, a leading turn-key kiosk system provider, announced a marketing alliance to provide complete kiosk-based solutions. The companies will jointly promote Pearlson’s line of interactive multimedia kiosk solutions designed with Elo touchmonitors. This partnership is part of Elo TouchSystem’s Kiosk Provider Program. "Through our partnership with Pearlson Development, Elo is able to offer its customers an even broader and more diverse range of touch solutions to meet their design needs," said Pat Brogan, V.P., Sales and Marketing, Elo TouchSystems. For more information, contact Elo TouchSystems, (Tel) 800-ELOTOUCH or www.elotouch.com, or Pearlson Development, 8960 S.W. 87 Court, Miami, FL 33176; (Tel.) 305-598-3018; (Fax.) 305-595-7161; (Web) www. pearlson.com.
RTC Industries has introduced two Interactive LCD display systems, extending RTC’s product line to include graphic imaging. The Graphic LCD offers a display that is 64 pixels high by 240 pixels wide, providing simple graphics or up to 8 lines of type with 40 characters per line. The Super Graphic LCD doubles the copy/graphic area with an LCD screen that is 128 pixels high, allowing larger graphics or up to 16 lines of type with 40 characters wide. Both units measure 16" long x 4" high x 1 1/2" deep. For more information, contact RTC Industries, 2800 Golf Road, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008; (Tel) 847-640-2400, (Fax) 888-581-8274.
ADCO Enclosures offers multi-media kiosks at affordable prices. Enclosure capabilities include standard designs, custom kiosks, and indoor/outdoor designs. The company offers 155,000 sq.ft. of production space with the latest CAD/CAM capabilities. For more information, contact ADCO Enclosures, 3800 S. 48th Terrace, St. Joseph, MO 64503; (Tel) 800-821-2255, (Fax) 816-233-5285, (Webwww.adconet.com.
The Creative Labs Interactive Product Demonstration Kiosk is designed to let the user directly experience the complete line of multimedia solutions offered by Creative Labs, Inc. It also gives the user the chance to understand the performance advantages of Creative’s brands as compared to generic alternatives. The kiosks have been installed in 343 computer retail outlets across the U.S. and Canada.
The demonstration kiosks cover all of Creative’s key categories including: the SoundBlaster AWE64 family of audio cards, Creative’s multimedia upgrade kits, its new speaker technology resulting from its acquisition of Cambridge SoundWorks, the company’s industry-leading PC-DVD solution and its family of GraphicsBlaster graphics accelerator cards.
The theme of the kiosk is consistent with Creative’s advertising campaign: "The Hottest Upgrades Create The Coolest PC."
Future plans include targeting the Latin American market and to routinely update the kiosks with the newest products.
First Commerce Bank of Georgia required a retail environment for the new Hamilton Mill golf community, that was technology-integrative and encouraged greater customer-motivated banking activity.
The Bank’s new interior design, created by Retail Planning Associates, (RPA) Columbus, Ohio, sweeps away the uniformity of the traditional teller line. Two educational kiosks are situated in the bank center but near Customer Service Representatives in open-ended, curvilinear workstations. RPA also eliminated the ‘vacant lot’ center typical of many old banks with a seating space adaptable to investment or retirement planning seminars, etc.
At the front is First Commerce’s bold graphics beacon: a giant lifestyle image and a moving layer of text projected from an overhead 360 degree camera. Wall-sized messages on sapphire panels adjoining the vestibule to the rest of the bank, continue the textual flow around the customer, inviting higher involvement.
Eloi Media Group is introducing a p.o.p. display that changes ads as the temperature outdoors rises and falls. Data is transmitted through standard phone lines.
Eloi Media Group is also looking into developing a digital network that will encompass various venues such as theater lobbies and malls.
For more information, contact Eloi Media Group, 251 Green Bay Road, Highland Park, IL 60035; (Tel) 847-433-5747.
NCR Corporation, headquartered in Dayton, OH, recently introduced a comprehensive promotions program that brings together internal and external advertising opportunities to help banks and other businesses promote themselves, drive additional traffic through their ATMs and defray costs.
"Banks and retailers are usually looking at two things when considering promotional options," said Dan Enneking, Senior Vice President of NCT’s Systemedia Group. "They either want to use their receipts to cross-promote their own products and services to customers, or they want to defray the cost of receipts by letting other companies advertise on the back of the receipt. NCR’s new program allows them to do both in a way that has never been possible until now."
NCR’s promotions program offers three exclusive components: the ability to drive sales through the use of full-color ads on thermal receipts; the ability to underwrite paper costs through national sponsorships and access to a national database that provides geo-demographic marketing data.
For more information, visit the NCR Systemedia Group Web site at www.ncr.com/systemedia.
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