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2026 — Mar — Next show for us is National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago — kiosks, badge and wristbands, surgical touch less and medical grade touchscreens — How To Participate! — Monthly Newsletter

Self-Service News Posts

• $200 AI Retrofit Compare to China’s AI-Native Smart Terminals
  Summary — $200 AI Retrofit vs. China’s AI-Native Smart Terminals Read full article 1. The $200 AI Retrofit Model This approach upgrades existing ...
• China’s 15th Five-Year Plan Accelerate Tech Self-Reliance
  Summary — China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and Hardware Self-Reliance (2026–2030) China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) signals a major shift toward technological ...
• The “Digital Divide” Paradox: When Healthcare Automation Becomes the Barrier
  Designing Kiosks To Be Inclusive Efficiency vs. Empathy: A Decade of Rapid Digitization For ten years, the global healthcare mission has been ...
• Acer Repositions With Posiflex Buy
  Implications for Posiflex Group (Posiflex, Portwell, KIS) TAIPEI (February 21, 2025), Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) announced plans to acquire 25.6% of ...
• Phygital 2.0: When AI Becomes Retail Infrastructure
  From “Unmanned Stores” to Intelligent Retail Systems Around 2018, the global retail industry became fascinated with the idea of the “unmanned ...
• Edge Computing AI and the Future of Self-Service Infrastructure
  Edge Computing – Hardware and Software Across the global self-service industry, kiosks are no longer simple transaction machines. In 2026, many ...
• Best POS for Small Restaurants (and ones to Avoid)
  Top POS for Small Restaurants Based on the article from Kiosk Industry, here is a summary of the top-rated restaurant POS ...

Insights and Resources

• Kiosk hardware Enclosures, displays, compute engines (used to be PCs…), peripherals and connectivity.
• Asia APAC self-service kiosk news from kioskasia.org
• New self-service kiosk software hub page for me. Tree trunk and now adding the branches so to speak
• Kioskindustry.org
• Thinclient.org

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StarVision (Shenzhen Star Vision Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese manufacturer founded in 2014 specializing in digital signage, interactive displays, and self-service kiosks. The company handles R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales of display and kiosk hardware used in commercial, educational, and public environments.   Introduction on kioskasia.org of StarVision — Elena whatapp：86-13425195340
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