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“Tokyo department store Takashimiya has teamed up with Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University to install a new visual merchandising concept using a lifelike android mannequin that has shoppers stopping in their tracks.”
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eBay are opening a temporary (prototype) shop in the West End of London for Christmas - and all purchases will be made using QR codes and smart phones.
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The Catalogue - RFID and CCTV simulation, by Chris Oakley (2004)
“Crystallising a vision of ‘us seen by them’, The Catalogue explores the codification of humanity on behalf of corporate entities. Through the manipulation of footage captured from life in the retail environment, it places the viewer into the position of a remote and dispassionate agency, observing humanity as a series of units whose value is defined by their spending capacity and future needs.”
(Via Adam Greenfield)
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3Live Shop by B-Reel is exactly what its name implies, a live online shop that works as a complementary service for the customers of the telecom operator 3, where they can interact with a real salesperson. You could call it a video call with a twist. The twist being a customized multi-touch experience for the sales person.
Visit 3Live Shop (Sweden).
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Using collaborative filtering, a branch of artificial intelligence frequently used by online retailers, the Smart Pop-Up Wine Shop by Gonzalo Garcia-Perate recommends the most popular wines as well as favoured purchase combinations by learning from its customers. Lights integrated in the shop’s furniture indicate the popularity of each wine using a colour scale. Additionally visitors can scan each bottle to see what others bought in combination with it, creating a real world version of the famous “users who bought this also bought” system popularised by Amazon.
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On behalf of Playframe Berlin, Grosse8 / Lichtfront developed the VDS (Virtual Design Studio) for EGGER to help people choose the configuration of their interior spaces in store. The illusion of the furniture is projected by HD video projectors which paint the textures in high resolution onto white boxes.
With a touch screen interface you can choose out of EGGERs’ 700 wood textures and see them displayed on a full size physical installation in front of you.
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Chinese vending machines sell live Shanghai Hairy Crabs .
If you keep crabs below 5 degrees celsius they go into a state of hibernation. A sign says that all the crabs in the machine are fresh - but if the crab you buy is dead they’ll give you three free crabs.
(Source: japanprobe.com)
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This video from Paypal Labs shows how they’ve combined Paypal with Arduino, QR codes and Twitter to create a vending machine that takes Paypal payment “beyond the web”.
Interesting.
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Macy’s Magic Fitting Room by LBi New York contains a large multitouch mirror and iPad app that lets customers browse, shop and “try-on” the latest must-have items. Flip through the hottest tops, dresses, bottoms and coats from some of Macy’s top designers and once complete you can send the whole experience to your Facebook page, SMS, or email, and shop all the looks in the store itself.
The Fitting Room, located on the first floor between the main escalators, will remain at the flagship store until November.
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Alongside streaming the event over the web and inviting customers to 25 of their flagship stores to watch their Spring/Summer 2011 show live on Giant LCD screens Burberry will be distributing iPads containing a custom app to allow special guests to find out more about - and of course buy - the products they’ve just seen on the catwalk.
These privileged customers will recieve their items several months before they hit the online and physical outlets.
(via Mashable)
