Now That IS Cool!

This week at Australia's Photo Marketing Association 2009 Exhibition, held in Sydney, Fujifilm launched a range of new products that are keeping them at the forefront of digital retail technology. It’s no longer just photo, with Fujifilm showcasing “Lifeware” downloadable application software and funky e-wrap vinyl “skins”, which turn mobile phones, iPods, PDAs and laptops into individual fashion statements.

Fujifilm also showcased self service music downloads which brings to the customer a “virtual” digital music store with around 1 million tracks. Customers can sample tracks and load their own compilation album to a range of personal digital devices.

All of these offerings are presented to the user through a range of kiosks designed and manufactured for Fujifilm by NeoProducts.



The newest of these kiosks is the multi-application NXT. The NXT kiosk is now offered with an optional back-lit face, which changes colour depending on the application that is being accessed. This has prompted more than one reaction along the lines: "Now that IS cool!

Securing Australia's Borders

Launching today, Sydney International Airport joins other Australian Airports in applying leading edge self service technology to improve Australian Border Security: SmartGates. As well as improving security, this system reduces the pressure on immigration staff and makes life easier for the weary traveller.

Increasingly, the expansion in the number of international travellers, coupled with the need for ever more sophisticated screening processes has meant that border security must innovate to manage higher throughput in a challenging environment.

The Australian Customs Service has embraced this challenge and is now a world leader in automating border security.

Australian Smart Passport holders can now self check through customs and immigration by scanning their passport and interactively answer entry questions at one of the 80 Smartgate kiosks. The traveller then proceeds to one of the automated gates where a biometric recognition system verifies their status and allows them entry.

The Smartgate kiosks were designed by Neo for Sagem, who deliver the complete system. So now one of the first things that a traveller entering Australia sees is a kiosk from NeoProducts.