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Self-Service Survival Guide: How Kiosks Have Adapted to the Great Outdoors
You don’t have to be Bear Grylls to know that the outdoors can be a tough place to be. Rain, snow, ice, wind, temperature extremes, even bright sunshine all pose risks to survival. And that’s just to people. For electronic [...]
Four Questions to Ask About Your Next Kiosk Rollout (and How We’d Answer Them)
Regular readers of this blog will know that we like to wax lyrical about cutting-edge kiosk technology and all the varied and innovative ways it is used. As kiosk vendors, who can blame us? Being right in the middle of [...]
What Will Biometric Border Checks Mean for Travel to the EU?
If you’re planning a summer holiday to Spain, Greece, the south of France or any other EU destination this year, try to savour the experience at passport control (if such a thing is even possible). Because the next time you [...]
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Is it Time You Took the Leap With Kiosks for Your Restaurant?
We’ve written previously about the transformational impact kiosks have had in the QSR sector. But for dine-in restaurants, the love affair with self-service has been much more of a slow burn. There are some very good and obvious reasons for [...]
Kiosks Are Great for Business. But They Make the World a Better Place, Too
Regular readers will know we enjoy a story about innovative and inspiring uses of kiosks and related self-service technology. This month, this story caught our attention about the growing trend for book vending machines in the USA. The inspiring part [...]
Four Self-Service Kiosk Trends to Watch Out For in 2025
In the world of tech, you have to pause for breath every now and then just to cope with the dizzying pace of innovation. Otherwise it all flies past in an incomprehensible blur. So with that in mind, we thought [...]
Using Kiosks to Help Customers Make More Informed Choices
Another year, another slew of headlines about weak retail performance and rock-bottom consumer confidence. On the back of a sluggish peak Christmas trading period, there is even talk of vendors being forced into pushing up prices yet again in 2025. [...]
The Case for Repurposing Unwanted Kiosks
Remember DVDs? A recent story that caught our attention is the sad but hardly surprising demise of DVD rental company Redbox in the US. Back in the day, Redbox was a true pioneer of self-service kiosks. Its business model was [...]
Why Kiosk Technology Will Kill Off Passports
The first time most people heard of biometric technology was when they got their first biometric passport. These futuristic-sounding travel documents have been the norm in the UK for close to 20 years, and the government issues some five million [...]
Why ‘Smartphone Offloading’ Makes Sense for Kiosks
There is a school of thought that kiosks and smartphones are in direct competition. That everything you can do on a kiosk, you can do on a mobile device. Pay for shopping without the mediation of a cashier, order food, [...]
Could Kiosks Help Keep Cash Alive?
We recently published a blog assessing the role self-service kiosks are playing in the shift towards a ‘cashless’ society. In it, we argued that the kiosk industry should be cautious about pushing the cashless ticket too fast. People are by [...]
The Benefits Of Self-Service Kiosks In Education
The start of the new academic year is a busy time of new beginnings for families and professionals. It means new classes, perhaps a new school, college or even leaving home for university. For schools, it means new intakes, new [...]
Four Ways The Internet Of Things Can Lift The Self-Service Experience
In the hyper-accelerated world of digital technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) feels like it has been around forever. A little like 5G mobile (and AI, for that matter), it’s a technology that got talked about and hyped-up long before [...]
How Kiosks Could Breathe New Life Into Catalogue Retail
In today’s digital world, the idea of receiving a printed catalogue the size and weight of a small paving slab through the post for the purposes of ordering goods for home delivery seems exotically quaint and old-fashioned. But in their [...]
Five Ways Kiosks Are Empowering Patients in Healthcare
Here at Acante, we love a good story of kiosk innovation that showcases the endless potential of this wonderfully flexible technology. This month, our collective eye was caught (excuse the pun!) by news of Eyebot, a US-based start-up that has [...]