Specializing in touch screen kiosk program development for the past 15 years, we’ve seen trends come and go.  Early on touch screen exhibit programs were very expensive and a monumental task to complete.

Touch screen kiosks can be used to educate visitors in many ways but beyond offering information on your exhibits or the subject matter in your displays, you can offer additional information that can be useful  for awareness and promotion.

With the growing concern for environmentally friendly solutions for just about everything we use every day, I thought it would be worthwhile to consider how to be more earth friendly when planning your touch screen computer kiosk exhibits

In a recent conversation with a client regarding a dead touch screen display, we uncovered the fact that the person who built their kiosk designed it without a cooling fan and it appears that they burned out their expensive, 22 inch, touch screen LCD.

For many of our customers, the summer is a very busy time at their facilities.  Some run summer camps, some are located...

Have you heard of QR Codes or seen them yet?  If not, you will.  QR, short for Quick Response...

Many of our point2explore customers opt for a Panel PC as their kiosk hardware solution.  We feel that they are a great kiosk hardware solution and have been offering them to our customers for several years.

I get a lot of questions about offering web sites on kiosks.  More and more, our customers are becoming web savvy and utilizing the web for educational outreach.  We are strong believers in not duplicating efforts and for some web applications; their addition to a kiosk is a great idea.

What is a screensaver?  Well, you might think that it is obvious, but really, it’s not.

 

Background:  Screensaver programs were originally designed to conserve the image quality of CRT monitors by filling the screen with moving images or patterns when the computers were not in use. 

Probably the most common question I get asked by our customers is “How do I clean the touch screen?”  I thought I’d share a few helpful hints for the general cleanliness of exhibit technology and kiosks.