mCosm Social Networking Kiosks

In-Store Social Networking Kiosks

Retailers with a strong brick-and-mortar presence in the market can now enable customers to share their shopping experiences and get input on buying decisions from friends and family who may be thousands of miles away through the use of “Social Networking Kiosks.” One of the major things people like about online shopping is its’ social aspects – the ability to read online reviews of products and send links to friends to ask their opinion about a product. The best way to compete with these online advantages is to go one better and give customers a strong reason to visit your physical store.

Social Networking Kiosks combine the advantages of on-line retailing with in-store shopping. Consider an in-store interactive computer with camera that enables customers to try on clothes or other accessories, then email or post pictures of themselves wearing the products on sites like Facebook. This makes it easy to shop “with” friends even when the friends aren’t available to go to the store with you. What’s more, it takes advantage of a key element of brick-and-mortar stores: the ability to try on, examine and experience merchandise hands-on before buying.

mCosm’s Social Networking Kiosk solution is an in-store interactive computer and camera system that enables customers to try on merchandise and privately view all the images on a touch screen or display them on large, in-store LCD screens. Customers can also poll friends on which looks best by emailing photos right from the store or by posting to social sites on which they have an account. The interactive touch screen computer interface guides customers through an effortless picture taking, posting and sharing process. This new experience is designed for the tech-savvy demographic to take advantage of social networking while in the store.

mCosm works with your staff to integrate our Social Networking Kiosk solution to your existing back-office systems.

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We enable retailers to go from concept to deployment of the initial pilot system in just weeks by leveraging three readily available and adaptable retail solutions from Micro Industries, an Affiliate Member of the Intel ® Embedded Alliance. These solutions include our Touch&Go interactive computer family and two software products: mCosm Rapid Application Development Framework and mCosm Remote Managed Service.

The flexibility of Micro Industries’ hardware and networking and application management offerings simplify the development of a social kiosk program and the implementation of complex features, like taking pictures and pushing them to the Internet for social networking. Intel processors enable the Touch&Go computers to run multiple applications simultaneously and deliver fast, effortless graphics performance. What’s more, it runs cool enough for quiet, fanless operation. By having a fully functional PC inside the system, retailers and others get real protection against network problems. If the network is disrupted for any reason, Touch&Go computers will continue running and help the retailer sell merchandise by photographing and displaying customer images in-store.

For more information about Touch&Go Computers , mCosm solutions and services, please contact us at (800) 446-6762 or email us at sales@mcosm.com.