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Sixth Sense in the Booth?

Sixth Sense in the Booth?

In this video, Pattie Maes demonstrates new hardware that allows people to interact in a seamless way with the world.  Ever since people began using PDAs and cell phones, there has been a struggle to use them to interact with the world.  Remember some PDAs had infrared capabilities allowing you to beam business cards?  That [...]

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What We Can Learn From Geeks

What We Can Learn From Geeks

OK — so you might be a geek reading this.  Take no offense because we all have to be a little geeky these days.  In researching for this post, I came across a post about the largest blogging conference and tradeshow coming up in Las Vegas.  BlogWorld & New Media Expo held Sept 20-21 had [...]

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Interactive Robotics

Interactive Robotics

Part of the fun of any live event is creating situations that interact casually with people passing by. This can be something as simple as a friendly smile or complex as video technology that viewers can interact with.

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Sales Technology Roundup

Technology is no doubt a huge boon to the sales process. Everything from smart phones to CRM program help people become more efficient and effective at generating more leads and closing more quickly. Right? Well, getting the true benefits out of all of these tools can be tricky and there doesn’t seem to be one [...]

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New Eco-Friendly Tension Fabric System from KSK

Exhibitoronline.com has a story on KSKs new eco-friendly tension fabric system. The system highlights the many ways that companies can be eco friendly using smarter, lighter display systems that can be recycled. We highlighted these themes in Roger’s E-book on Eco-friendly exhibit design which you can download here.

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LED in Architecture

LED technology has been with us a long time. But the use of it to create brilliant effects far surpasses those scrolling red and black signs we’ve all seen. Creating brilliant effects that catch the eye and are ever changing.

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Interactive Floors

Interactivity has made some huge leaps in the past few years. From video games to the cars people drive, there are more buzzes and whistles in everyday life than ever before.

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Very Cool Robotics: A Whale

This video on the Mannetron site, show a step-by-step process for designing and creating a robotic whale. While the technology behind this project is beyond most trade shows booths, it does show the amazing technology available in animatronics for creating a branded space.

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Seadragon Changes User Interaction with Screens

Touch screens are the hottest new thing in display technologies. Seadragon, a company acquired by Microsoft in January 2006, has developed software that allows users to seamlessly interact with visual information regardless of bandwidth or the amount of data. You can easily imagine this technology being used effectively at a trade show for demonstrations and [...]

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Disney Pilot Program Links Nintendo DS with Park Navigation

Using electronic devices to navigate large venues has been tested in some arenas. But the barrier is always in finding a device that is universal enough to make sense. Apparently Disney is testing a program that will allow visitors to use their Nintendo DS as an interactive guide the park.

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