urbanscale + retail   25

Core77: Tokyo's new, huge, and very smart vending machines
A little misleading as regards the Japanese technological landscape, but still important.
sidewalking  datamining  retail  streetfurniture  publicspace  urbancomputing  from delicious
december 2010 by Urbanscale
NYT: In Village Restaurants, the Spirit of Old New York
I fear that, if not checked, this sort of thing may well be the death-knell of NYC as a creative enterprise. Retrieval, reification and vitrification are never good signs of a robustly healthy place with lots of new ideas to contribute, and these things in and of themselves are not sufficiently novel to constitute a creative response to the times.
(nyc)  1960s  retail  noideasbutinthings  DONOTWANT 
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Mac Rumors: Apple Patent Application Details Temporary Location-Specific iPhone Applications
From "location-aware" to "location-specific." Note restaurant wait time and menu-on-personal-device use cases.
apple  everyware  urbancomputing  retail 
may 2010 by Urbanscale
First Look: Inside JetBlue's Food Court
The food options for JFK Terminal 5, aka Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal. : . )
(nyc)  jetblue  jfk  retail  design 
august 2008 by Urbanscale
Ikan
Counter-top scanner promises to "automate" the grocery shopping.
retail  shopping  logistics 
june 2008 by Urbanscale
Jan Chipchase: Shorter, Smoother, More Comfortable
Transactions in context, and the specter of cascading EPIC FAIL via preemptive purchase heuristics.
economics  networks  money  retail 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
Make Marketing History: The Streets Of London.
Piquant look at Nokia's retail experience vs. Apple's, toe-to-toe across Regent St.
london  LHR  nokia  apple  retail  experiencedesign 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
The NYC Mobile Trial, "evaluating the speed and convenience that contactless payments can provide to our valued customers" (!)
In which NYC begins to catch up with the rest of the world, with the "assistance" of Cingular, MasterCard and Citibank. Via Timo.
(nyc)  everyware2ndedition  everyware  urbancomputing  mobile  rfid  nfc  retail 
january 2007 by Urbanscale
800 Very Unsquare Feet - New York Times
More of interest because of what it implies about consumers' hunger for some inchoate sense of "authenticity" than anything else.
retail  design 
november 2006 by Urbanscale
Westvleteren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Towards the end of 2005, stocks were finally depleted, and no more would be ready until spring 2006." (*Does the Homer dance.)
beer  food  craft  friends  chrisheathcote  retail  tobuy 
april 2006 by Urbanscale
monolot.com
Bryan Boyer's cream of the crop, circa 2001
gear  travel  retail  design  friends  bryanboyer 
april 2006 by Urbanscale
Prada's Pratfall
Via Fabio: There's nothing like validation, even so long after the fact. ; . )
retail  bad  engineering  technology  humanfactors 
march 2005 by Urbanscale

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