Amazon Opens Screen-Filled Bricks And Mortar “Parapharmacy” Store In Milan February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Online shopping and fulfillment giant Amazon has opened its first bricks and mortar store in Italy – a health and beauty store in Milan’s city centre filled with screens. The Amazon Parafarmacia Beauty store opened Feb. 12th, featuring a “curated” selection of beauty and personal care products from brands including Eucerin, La Roche-Posay, Vichy, Avène, …
Omdia’s ISE 2025 Pro Display Recap Suggests, Among Many Things, The Race To Finest LED Pixel Pitch Has Stalled February 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia has pushed out a recap of the pro display side of ISE 2025, which was run earlier this month in Barcelona. The company, which like other credible research firms sends analysts around the halls to meet with manufacturers, offers up the recap as a free read, but you have to register. …
Intuitive AI Deploys First Screen-Driven Trash Sorter At Boston Logan February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The podcast now up on Sixteen:Nine is about a Vancouver company called Intuitive AI that blends image recognition with digital signage and DOOH to come up with a recycling assistant for trash bins in busy public spaces. The company already has a lot of deployments, and now has one operating at Boston’s Logan International Airport …
Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
First Robotics-Driven Airport Restaurant Uses Nsign.tv To Drive Customer Messaging February 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona-based CMS software and solutions firm nsign.tv now has a flashy reference case for existing and prospective customers – a food stall at the city’s main airport that has a robot working behind the counter. The robotic-driven restaurant chain Self now has a mostly unmanned operation in Terminal 1, next to Gate B24. It …
2025 Global Digital Signage Awards List – AI’d Version February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes As a bit of an experiment, I tweaked and cleaned up the spreadsheet I was provided for the 2025 Global Digital Signage Awards, threw this into Claude, monkeyed a little with the prompts, and ended up very quickly with a serviceable story that runs through the winners handed out a couple of weeks ago. I …
Former NEC Displays CEO Bouman Now In Charge At Hologram-ish Startup Proto February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the eyebrow-raisers I read this morning as I started shovelling and sorting my email inboxes was word that the LA start-up that started and leads the niche business of hardware and services for hologram-ish transparent LCD displays has a new CEO – a guy coming over from the far more conventional side of …
Company At Center Of Messy Walgreens Digital Chiller Deal Now Calling Itself CoolerX, And Touting (Of Course) AI January 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes A couple of US business publications have had stories up in recent days looking at the mess that has become the attempt to turn the refrigerated cabinet doors in Walgreens stores into media and sales promotions screens. That story has been pretty well-documented, but there are some new details available about how ugly it has …
Longtime Intuiface CEO Vincent Encontre Pivots From Reading Budget Docs To Watching Grandkids Grow Up January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Happy, happy trails to Vincent Encontre, the longtime CEO of the French interactive software firm Intuiface, who has retired. Vincent has a post up on Linkedin outlining how he has stepped down and is looking forward to doing things that don’t involve budget forecasts and software roadmaps. He also relates the company’s journey, particularly as …
Start-up NetSpeek Uses AI To Make Managing Big Screen Networks Easier January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes A start-up with roots in PC-based digital signage media players has launched a unique new service aimed mainly at pro AV solutions providers and end-users – using artificial intelligence to largely automate and streamline the management and integrity of enterprises that use a lot of screens and other devices. NetSpeek, which comes out of stealth …
