Malls

This Abandoned Mall Is Perfect for Your Zombie Back to School Shopping

Labor Day sales can be frightening things indeed, so it’s a perfect time to look at this scary abandoned mall in St. Louis. After 55 years in business, Crestwood Court started closing its stores in 2006, eventually shutting its doors for good last month. Digital artist Dan Wampler photographed the slowly dilapidating space, managing to…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Surreal Mall Is More Ghost Town Than Shopping Center

It’s easy to find the the New South China Mall in the bustling metropolis of Dongguan in Guangdong province, China. With 892,000 square metres of leasable space, it’s the largest shopping center in the world.* But you’ll have to look much more closely to see if its even open. The NSCM is the victim of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Sears Plans To Retrofit 2,500 “Ghostbox” Stores As Data Centers

There are over a billion square feet of vacant commercial space in the US right now, most of it in the form of big box stores. This being America, we’ve come up with plenty of intelligent ways to reuse the department stores at which we can no longer afford to shop: Churches. Parks. Clinics. And…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

A Surreal Jaunt Through the Largest Mall in North America

The West Edmonton Mall is the largest mall in North America, a five-million-square-foot-waterslide-and-roller-coaster-filled alternate reality where Albertans can escape brutal winters and mosquito-clouded summers. But in “Waterpark,” the directorial debut of Canadian filmmaker Evan Prosofsky, the mall is cast as a place where placid indoor humans spend their entire lives being entertained. “I never seemed…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Shopping Mall Fountain One-Ups the Bellagio’s Famous Water Works By Shooting Fire

Steve Wynn spent over $1.6 billion building the Bellagio, but a new shopping mall in Salt Lake City has one-upped the resort’s famous fountains with its own water works creation that spews forth synchronized jets of fire as well. Opened just last week, the City Creek Center’s most awesome attraction—besides its Sbarro’s—was apparently created by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

An Eerie Video Tour of the World’s Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall

South China Mall, built in Dongguan and more than twice as large as Minnesota’s Mall of America, was completed in 2005. Today, it sits almost completely empty. It is, by any account, the world’s largest ghost mall. It’s not hard to guess what happened here: many of China’s overzealous building projects over the last decade—including…

Tech News John Herrman

The Retail Ruins of America’s Ghost Malls

With all the malls and retail spaces dotting the American landscape, ruined malls could someday stand as memorials to modern society. Photographer Brian Ulrich documents abandoned and neglected retail spaces, including many that have already fallen into decay. The more immaculate of these malls evoke the nation of ghost malls Cory Doctorow imagines in his…

io9 Lauren Davis

Palette Mannequin Robot Changes Pose to Please Passing Shoppers

Robots have taken over the shopping malls. Flee. The robot in this case is called Palette. It’s a Japanese creation that changes poses when it “senses” window shoppers taking in the view. Some Japanese boutiques have already started renting the bots for about $3,000 apiece ($50,000 to own). “It makes the product the mannequin wears…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Telerobotic Shopper Lets You Hit the Malls Using a Cellphone

Japan, the land of using technology to solve problems we didn’t know we had, has come out with a new robot that will let people shop at malls without ever leaving their home. Robot developer tmsuk revealed a telerobotic shopper that can be controlled using NTT DoCoMo’s cellphone technology. In the demo, unveiled at the…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Dell Closing its Retail Store Kiosks

Those friendly Dell kiosks you’ve been seeing in the mall are all going away as Dell shutters all 140 stores in favor of going back to their online sales and bigger name retail outlets (like Best Buy). All their inventory-less stores will be closed, meaning that you will have to order online from the comfort…

Tech News Jason Chen

New Mall Camera System Can Guess Your Age, Gender, and Class

Soon, when you go to the mall, the jerks who work in the stores won’t be the only ones judging you based on your appearance. A new $19,000 camera system currently being tested in Japan purports to be able to guess your gender, age, and even your social class merely by appearance. It determines this…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

RFID Shopbots Begin Test Runs

NTT Communications is teaming with Tmsuk to test a RFID-controlled shopping assistant robot at a mall in Fukuoka. Basically the robot reads millions of RFID tags that are embedded into the floor of the mall, collecting information about everything in the shops. It works by having the shopper select a store/product destination, the robot will…

Tech News Travis Hudson

This Abandoned Mall Is Perfect for Your Zombie Back to School Shopping

This Surreal Mall Is More Ghost Town Than Shopping Center

Sears Plans To Retrofit 2,500 “Ghostbox” Stores As Data Centers

A Surreal Jaunt Through the Largest Mall in North America

Shopping Mall Fountain One-Ups the Bellagio’s Famous Water Works By Shooting Fire

An Eerie Video Tour of the World’s Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall

The Retail Ruins of America’s Ghost Malls

Palette Mannequin Robot Changes Pose to Please Passing Shoppers

Telerobotic Shopper Lets You Hit the Malls Using a Cellphone

Dell Closing its Retail Store Kiosks

New Mall Camera System Can Guess Your Age, Gender, and Class

RFID Shopbots Begin Test Runs

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