Word: kiosks
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While all the murals are accessible on a special website set up by the Boston Pubilc Library, this restoration will soon include an unlikely frill: a kiosk below the scaffolding with a webcam that will broadcast all the touch-ups live to that site...
...Concept: When closed, the kiosk is a sort of electronic bulletin board that displays information about events in the neighborhood, e-mailed in by local businesses. When someone approaches, the kiosk opens up so the user can recharge a mobile phone, download information from the Internet or, yes, even make a telephone call. The flowerlike structure also provides shelter and light (from the tips of its petals) while monitoring pollution. Says SHoP's Gregg Pasquarelli:"We see it as halfway between a tree and a piece of sculpture...
...Every kiosk you see, you pounce on it;” Rochelson said...
...company has raised some $100 million from investors, among them Rho Ventures, based in New York City, and IBM. The idea is to sell the kiosk for about $60,000 to retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change...
...Other kiosks are being tested at seven CVS drugstores in Boston. In September a kiosk was shown at the Photokina trade fair in Cologne, Germany, and a test model is being rolled out this month at the department store Karstadt-Oberpollinger in Munich. Applied Science Fiction plans to begin mass production next year and hopes to turn a profit by mid-2004. Though some 23 million digital cameras will be sold this year--nearly double the amount in 2000--the company is confident that film won't expire anytime soon. By year-end, there will be more than a billion...