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Kinect Is Going To Watch How You Browse, Not Just What You Buy
There are endless metrics a store has access to when it comes to when, what and who is buying merchandise. But, surprisingly, there’s not a heck of a lot of data on why a customer decides not to buy something. So Fujitsu is hoping its new Kinect-based research tool provides more insight into how customers browse, and why they may decide against a purchase.
You Can Now Buy Stuff From Right Inside A Torrent
BitTorrent always has something cooking, from a streaming video protocol that never overloads, to a neat little private cloud storage system. Now the company’s invented a new kind of torrent that lets content creators pack their own little store right inside.
The Hilarious Truth About The IKEA Catalogue
Whether you love IKEA for being a one-stop shop to fill out your home with a seemingly endless inventory of knick knacks or hate the big-box shop for its self-destructing furniture and not-so-easy instructions, the IKEA catalogue is probably the most printed book after the Bible. But what is IKEA hiding in its impeccably decorated pages? This video hilariously exposes it.
A Surreal Jaunt Through The Largest Shopping Centre In North America
The West Edmonton Mall is the largest shopping centre in North America, a 465,000sqm-waterslide-and-roller-coaster-filled alternate reality where Albertans can escape brutal winters and mosquito-clouded summers. But in “Waterpark”, the directorial debut of Canadian filmmaker Evan Prosofsky, the shopping centre is cast as a place where placid indoor humans spend their entire lives being entertained.
Click Frenzy Is Happening Again Because…Oh God Who Even Knows Why
Remember Click Frenzy? That monolithic marketing exercise (read: failure) that made a laughingstock of traditional retailers and their attempts to be hip, online sellers? It’s happening again because stupid people never learn their lesson. Get ready for Click Frenzy II: THE CLICKENING.
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