Variable Markup » NRF http://www.variablemarkup.com Retail Software Blog - Improving customer experience through technology Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:10:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Microsoft Surface Snowboard Demo at NRF Conference ’08 http://www.variablemarkup.com/2008/01/15/microsoft-surface-snowboard-demo-at-nrf-conference-08/ http://www.variablemarkup.com/2008/01/15/microsoft-surface-snowboard-demo-at-nrf-conference-08/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:05:10 +0000 Michael Julson http://www.variablemarkup.com/2008/02/04/microsoft-surface-snowboard-demo-at-nrf-conference-08/ Read the Rest...
]]> Today I was able to walk the conference floor at NRF and see what’s new and by far the most interesting (and busiest) demo was in Microsoft’s booth of their new Surface technology.  The person running the demo ran through several applications with a constant crowd surrounding his area.  I was able to get close enough to take some quick pictures.  These pics and quick video are a snowboard customization demo and of a T-Mobile app for use in stores for comparing phones.

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And here are the T-mobile pics.

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Demonstrator places a phone on the Surface and automatically pops up details on the phone.

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He then places a second phone onto the Surface and is able to compare the differences between the two.  

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Last he’s able to go ahead and purchase the phone.  Once he was done, he showed a follow up application that allowed you to put ring tones on your phone by looking through artists/albums. 

Here are several other videos on MS Surface

New MS Surface Apps at CES 2008

Tmobile Demo

Wine Steward Demo

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I’m in NYC for NRF’s Big Show.  It’s pretty chilly in NYC staying between 30-35F, although it’s considered warm for most NRF shows.  We got very lucky this morning as forecasters yesterday were predicting up to 9 inches of snow during the night.  Fortunately, when I woke up, only about an inch had fallen and it was already melted except on rooftops. 

I’ve spent the majority of my time in customer and vendor meetings so I haven’t had a chance to get out and see what’s new.  I’m hoping to do that tomorrow. 

ARTS, the standards body for NRF announced yesterday the release of the Service Oriented Architecture Blueprint for Retail which I was quoted for.  There seems to be a lot of interest in the document at the show.  I’m looking forward to hearing feedback on the blueprint as the team put in many hours in the construction. 

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