kiosks

Amazon launches physical kiosks in UK train stations, a local extension of its Treasure Trucks

After announcing a year-long pilot of pop-up shops in the UKĀ earlier this week to sell items from smaller marketplace merchants, Amazon has added another development to its brick-and-mortar efforts i

Warung Pintar raises $27.5M to digitize Indonesia’s street vendors

The digital revolution in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, continues to attract big money from investors. Hot on the heels of a $50 million round for Bukalapak, a billion-dollar comp

The economics and trade-offs of ad-funded smart city tech

In order to have innovative smart city applications, cities first need to build out the connected infrastructure, which can be a costly, lengthy and politicized process. Third-parties are helping buil

With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Phones Collected, Device Recycler ecoATM Adds Tablets

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/25/global-mobile-phone-shipments-2012/">According to Strategy Analytic</a>s, about 1.6 billion mobile phones were shipped in 2012, with 700 mil

Would you use an ATM for movies?

I’m not quite sold on this idea but I thought I’d see what everyone else thinks. There’s a company in Ireland called PortoMedia that’s developed movie kiosks. These kiosks will

Dell closing kiosks because they're worthless

Maybe worthless is the wrong adjective, but you have to admit that those kiosks are rather pointless. Today, Dell announced that they will close 140 kiosks throughout the US to focus on direct and ret

Kodak's Picture Kiosk G4 More Fun Than It Should Be

Until yesterday, I hadn’t used a photo kiosk since the year 2000. At that time all the kiosk had was a flatbed scanner and maybe a floppy and/or CD-ROM, but I don’t remember (dude, it was