The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Experticity, which recently landed $1.2 million in angel financing, is testing a technology for in-store computer kiosks that would allow shoppers to touch a flat-panel screen and then get questions answered from a customer service agent - one who may be located thousands of miles away. With a broadband connection transmitting data and voice, the customer service agent could advise a shopper on the benefits of certain products, pull up pricing information on eBay or show diagrams of how products work. The system also could be designed to allow shoppers to speak with agents in Spanish, Russian or other languages.

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