New Train Station Offers Minority Report-Style Signs
Birmingham New Street railway station signs, created by Concept Signs and Dynamic Digital Displays Europe, are to scan passers-by before choosing which advertisements to play.
Each of the board are made from 100s of tiny screens which analyse rail passengers, shoppers and those just passing by, to assess the crowd's demographics.
Targeted ads are then set to be played.
Work has begun on installing the three screens this week including the first eye-shaped screen above the station's new main entrance by John Lewis,
Technovelgy readers have no trouble identifying Minority report ads illustrated so imaginatively in Steven Spielberg's 2002 film version of the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.
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