Salad Vending Machine

Don’t think of the Farmer’s Fridge kiosk as a vending machine. It’s a veggie machine dispensing handcrafted salads that taste so good you’ll think you’re eating bad. Made fresh every day, using only the best ingredients and delivered daily to a vending machine. And just as each salad is a culinary thing of beauty, the kiosk is a work of […]

Three Cool Online Payment Systems

With pretty much everything being available online these days – the topic of online payment systems is something that comes up regularly.  Everyone wants to be able to make safe and secure transactions with the ultimate convenience.  There are now quite a lot of them to choose from – so we have selected what we feel are the top 3 […]

Marketplace for Gift Cards

Increasing an average of 10% year-over-year, the gift card industry is experiencing exponential growth with more than $110 billion in sales in 2012 alone. Along with this rise in gift card sales comes more prevalent gift card loss, leaving 20% of gift cards unused every year. In an effort to make the gift card category more efficient, Raise.com was founded as a […]

Real Time Recipes to Add Sales

The campaign was the brainchild of digital agency CUBOCC, who fitted shopping carts at the Pão de Açúcar shopping center in São Paulo with touchscreen devices. When consumers placed a jar of Hellmann’s mayonnaise in their cart, the tablet detected where they were in the store through NFC tags located on each aisle. For example, if they walked past the […]

Virtual Mannequins

When shopping in a rush, having to spend time in a dressing room can feel like an unreasonable annoyance. Japanese apparel store VANQUISH has integrated teamLabHanger digital mannequins into its ikebukuro Parco shop to give customers an instant visual of how clothing looks on their bodies. Each clothes hanger is equipped with a unique ID. When a hanger is removed from a garment rack, the teamLabHanger […]

All The Good Deals

Bownty aggregates daily deals onto one website and sends it out in a single daily e-mail. This makes it much easier for you to find the best deals on cool things to do in your city – often at half price or less. With 2500 deals available on Bownty daily, you will never miss a great deal again. In order […]

Square Credit Card Reader

Square, a tiny credit card reader, plugs into a smartphone or iPad turning your device into a point-of-sale cash register. It allows you as an individual to collect funds via a credit card. Setting up an account is pretty painless. The software will send the buyer a receipt, and keep track of your sales. It can track cash, too. This […]

Tweet for Free Drink

South African beverage company BOS Ice Tea has developed a Twitter-activated vending machine, called BEV, that dispenses a free can of its Rooibos drink when a customer stands in front of it and tweets with the hashtag “#BOSTWEET4T.” An overhead LED screen shows the person’s Twitter handle and a countdown until the “free” can emerges. When the drink is delivered, […]

Retail-Teller-Machine

A creation of KAL, the RTM is a Retail-Teller-Machine that works just like an ATM. Instead of dispensing cash, the RTM prints a secure voucher that is exchanged for cash. RTMs are located inside any store and provide a full range of banking services. RTMs are a tenth of the cost of an ATM to own and operate. No cash […]

UPcload Online Tailor Measurements

At UPcload, get measured via webcam and start using UPcload to find clothes that fit you when you’re shopping online. To get started, start the application and position yourself in front of a light wall. Don’t forget to wear tight, dark clothing. Get measured with the webcam; 3 minutes and 4 easy poses get you results as accurate as a […]