I used to work at Cooler Screens, if anyone has any questions :D
Was there any awareness that the premise was kind of goofy from the jump? Was there any concern about the optics of the failing units described by the author?
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#132My wife stopped into a local supermarket (in the UK) a couple of weeks ago to grab some things, she came out slightly puzzled and said to me; something along the lines of "what a pain in the arse; all of the freezers have black glass now and I had to open each one to find out what was in them". I was equally puzzled at why on earth they might have done this; It finally occurs to be, having read this, that they must h…
Was it possible that she was wearing polarized glasses?
I had this experience with the cooler screens at a Walgreens in Miami Beach. I wear polarized sunglasses. I didn't realize the windows were lit until I got very close and took my sunglasses off.
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#133Were these screens e-ink, wouldn't they allow for doors that are better insulated? This could yield lower power consumption, couldn't it? On the other hand, door insulation might be insignificant if the fridge is opened often enough. Which is likely what any retailer hopes for.
Given the importance of color to branding I think e-ink is a nonstarter in it's current mass-produced form.
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#134Is anyone else repulsed by this stuff? The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. I think of "tax what you want less of".
> The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. Deface them. This is legitimate defense.
I wouldn't deface them, but I keep a couple mutetheads[0] stickers in my glovebox. Perhaps I can share the "secret mute" button with the next person.
[0] MuteTheAds.com
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#135Crazy to think how much time and money went into something like this; what a hilarious and tragic waste. Imagine a world where those resources got used to like, build affordable housing or buy insulin for people something. Instead we're breaking a product that works great as-is on the off-chance we can push people to buy Monster instead of a Red Bull or whatever.
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#136I hate these things, I have seen them in some of the Walgreens around town and I just keep on thinking about the energy wasted both by lighting up the whole screen brightly enough to see in the store, and by customers opening the doors up so they can see what's actually there and letting more cool air out. I've never seen them displaying ads, just big graphics saying "WATER" or "ICE CREAM" or "MILK" or whatever when…
“If there are eyes somewhere, put a screen in front of it.” could be the mantra for the 21st century so far. I wonder and worry about the tablet toddlers in the shopping cart and at restaurants and what kind of world they will create when they have spent their whole lives looking at a reality several times removed from Plato’s shadows on the wall of the cave. These stupid cooler screens are just more fake reality for…
The show Legion had an excellent vignette about this very topic near the end of season 2. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHj2slKBF98 for reference). I thought it was pretty well done, although it doesn't really answer any questions, just raises the topic.
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#137I hate these things, I have seen them in some of the Walgreens around town and I just keep on thinking about the energy wasted both by lighting up the whole screen brightly enough to see in the store, and by customers opening the doors up so they can see what's actually there and letting more cool air out. I've never seen them displaying ads, just big graphics saying "WATER" or "ICE CREAM" or "MILK" or whatever when…
the future could have been amazing but advertisers only view things as places to put advertisements.
i have a strong feeling that things are going to get worse before they get better.
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#138I hate these things, I have seen them in some of the Walgreens around town and I just keep on thinking about the energy wasted both by lighting up the whole screen brightly enough to see in the store, and by customers opening the doors up so they can see what's actually there and letting more cool air out. I've never seen them displaying ads, just big graphics saying "WATER" or "ICE CREAM" or "MILK" or whatever when…
the future could have been amazing but advertisers only view things as places to put advertisements. i have a strong feeling that things are going to get worse before they get better.
The ad industry is not Midas, but Mierdas: everything it touches turns to shit.
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#139My wife stopped into a local supermarket (in the UK) a couple of weeks ago to grab some things, she came out slightly puzzled and said to me; something along the lines of "what a pain in the arse; all of the freezers have black glass now and I had to open each one to find out what was in them". I was equally puzzled at why on earth they might have done this; It finally occurs to be, having read this, that they must h…
Was it possible that she was wearing polarized glasses? I had this experience with the cooler screens at a Walgreens in Miami Beach. I wear polarized sunglasses. I didn't realize the windows were lit until I got very close and took my sunglasses off.
One day it will be like the movie, "They Live", only putting the glasses on prevents the ads that have invaded every waking moment of your life from showing.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know what else enables thicker insulation and doesn't require a computer screen and e-waste? Thicker insulation .
It's not feasible to make glass doors on coolers much thicker, or else they'd be too heavy to move for a significant portion of the population without a motor or hydraulics.
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