Airport Digital Sign Topples, Kills 10-Year-Old March 25, 2013 by Super User Here’s a tragic reminder of how important it is to get a deployment team that knows what it is doing when it installs digital screens in public spaces. One child is dead and other family members badly injured after a flight information display wall fell on them all as they were passing through Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport …
OK, Fine Dep’t: Startup Says It Will Go From Zero To 700 Medical DOOH Sites In 2013 March 22, 2013 by Super User A startup called Admerge Media is the latest to have a crack at turning Canadian medical clinics into media environments. “Place-based media is new to healthcare, and the benefits are becoming more obvious every day,” says Dr. Hany Demian, an emergency room physician and founder of Toronto-based Admerge. “Our mission is to help healthcare professionals and …
Strategy Shift: Consumers Have Their “Mobile Blinders” On In Checkout Lanes March 21, 2013 by Super User You know that idea that people waiting in checkout lines are going to occupy their time looking at the magazines or maybe at a digital display? Not so much. A Business Week story today suggests bored shoppers now have “mobile blinders” that stop such behavior and curb impulse buying. These days, suggests the story, consumers …
Fashion Retailer Kate Spade Using iPads As Digital Signs March 21, 2013 by Super User Fashion retailer Kate Spade Saturday has started using iPads as in-store signage in its Tokyo locations, with plans to expand on that later this year. Kate Spade Saturday is running product videos and product demos on the units. “Apple iPads will be strategically positioned throughout the shop, featuring content that is relevant to items in proximity, …
Android POS Tablet Suggests Where Merchants Are Going, And DS Vendors Should Follow March 21, 2013 by Super User We’re already seeing the start of a shift in consumer environments away from highly proprietary and (usually) expensive systems to leaner, less costly ones playing off consumer devices and nimble software. Small merchants are using iPads as POS systems and very large companies like Apple use their own portable devices to transact in the aisles …
Projects: Interactive Monster Wall At Gatwick March 20, 2013 by Super User Here’s a question … Other than bored 11-year-olds, who is the audience for giant interactive quiz walls in busy airport terminals? Don’t get it, but these Monster Media interactive walls keep showing up in airports here and there – this latest one a collaboration between Monster and UK-based OOH company Eye that is meant to engage …
Projects: World’s Largest LED Board Lights Up In Johannesburg March 19, 2013 by Super User Lumen – billed as the largest LED display on the planet, was switched on today on top of the four sides of the Absa Towers building in Johannesburg, South Africa. Four giant LED screens – one on each side on top of the 29th floor roof, result in a digital display footprint almost twice the …
Taiwan Digital Signage Forum Looking For Speaker March 19, 2013 by Super User Taiwan’s Digital Signage Multimedia Association has its annual Digital Signage Forum on Friday, June 7th in Taipei, and has a call out for a speaker who can do 30 minutes on where the industry os at and where it is going. The DSMA will reimburse air and two nights hotel for whoever sticks up their …
Key West Debuts SignWave For Meeting Room Market March 19, 2013 by Super User Keywest Technology is the latest digital signage software developer to get on the Android OS bus, announcing a system called SignWave that’s expressly focused on event and meeting room signs. The idea is to marry Android OS tablets with third-party property and event management systems that are commonly used in corporate, hospitality and higher education …
NanoLumens Hangs Out With The Hipsters At SXSW March 18, 2013 by Super User The boys from NanoLumens got to hang out with the cool kids and fedora-wearing hipsters at last week’s SXSW event in Austin, TX – providing some of its light, thin and custom-shaped LED displays for some interactive work shown off by Austin-based interactive firm Mass Relevance. The Atlanta company has posted a series of pix …
