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Streetspace wins Industrial Design Excellence Award
“Why should a public access Internet terminal
look like a shrine, closed off, walled in and private
when it is supposed to be accessible and ubiquitous
as the payphone?”
- Industrial Designers Society of America, 2001 |
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The STREETSPACE Web Station™ is a rich interactive
media delivered via an Internet broadband network of compact,
stylishly designed terminals strategically placed throughout
prime retail locations.
The Web Station™ was envisioned with the idea that
users would be able to simply "walk up to the Web"
in thousands of retail locations, banks, transit hubs,
café's for quick check-ins for email, information,
or entertainment. In addition to Internet access, email
and Internet telephony services, e-banking and e-government
options, it features value added applications such as
card readers, thermal printer and A4 printers. |
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Unique Design
The Web Station™'s design clearly distinguishes
it from conventional pay-per-use "Internet kiosks".
Its sleek award-winning features and rugged build were
designed with IDEO, the world's leading industrial design
house. The Web Stations™ were designed to be compact,
inviting, and fit cleanly into a wide variety of environments.
It’s optimised to provide maximum uptime in high
traffic user frequency environments and is especially
suited for retail environments and public spaces with
high-foot traffic such as airports, train stations, government
buildings, product showrooms, restaurants, cafes and shopping
malls.
Deployments
The Web Station™ is currently deployed as internet
banking terminals by leading Malaysian banks such as Maybank,
CIMB Bank and AFFIN Bank. It is also deployed
by the Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia for
its job vacancy electronic kiosks.
The Web Station™ has been extensively deployed in
North America and underwent a successful Validation programme
in Berkeley, California in 2000, where 40 Web Station™s
were installed in café's, book stores, record stores,
and restaurants. Streetspace managed to get 30,000 people,
a third of the city’s population, to register after
just four weeks. The Web Station™ was subsequently
rolled-out in McDonalds, San Francisco, the SF
Giants’ Pac Bell Park and in the SMRT
in Singapore.
Industry recognition
The Web Station™ has also received 3 US patents
and won design awards in the US, notably at the Industrial
Design Excellence Award 2001. It has also been exhibited
at numerous industry trade shows such as CeBIT, Hanover;
CommunicAsia, Singapore and the Consumer Electronics Show
(CES), Las Vegas.
US
Patents
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D433679 Terminal Apparatus |
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D451916 Face of Terminal Apparatus |
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6847969 Method and System for providing personalised
services and advertisements in public places |
International Awards
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