Toronto’s main airport rolls out massive digital wayfinding stations November 28, 2011 by Dave Haynes The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which runs Canada’s busiest airport in guess where, has OK’d a big expansion of the digital wayfinding system its been testing for a while – even giving the system its own brand. The Digital Advertising and Wayfinding Network (DAWN) is 18 BIG advertising display screens and flanking interactive terminals at …
Fashion retailer’s dressing room mirror adds firefighter surprise for women November 25, 2011 by Dave Haynes Stu Armstrong of ComQi posted a tweet this morning about a women’s apparel store in my neck of the woods that took an entirely different approach to the whole augmented reality-virtual dressing room mirror thing. Instead of letting women try on different virtual outfits, they try on real outfits and then go over to a …
DOOHgood Update November 24, 2011 by Dave Haynes Thanksgiving Day (the US version, at least) seems a somewhat appropriate time to provide a quick update on the activities of DOOHgood, the industry effort to distribute video Public Service Announcements to Digital OOH networks who have remnant ad time available. The effort started with the tsunami back in March, as DOOH4Relief, and transformed into …
iSign Signs With BroadSign For Sign Network November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes Mixed impressions rule the day over word that my old colleagues at BroadSign have bagged the software deal for a rather large Canadian Digital OOH network. At somewhere between 1,400 and 5,600 licenses, it’s a godzilla deal up here amongst the roaming caribou and wandering bands of concussed former NHLers. However, the deal is with iSIGN …
Missed it by THAT much November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes Display Daily has an insightful piece out today about the iconic Christmas windows at Macy’s on 34th Street in New York, and an attempt at introducing glasses-free 3D into the displays. As Maxwell Smart would often say, the people who pulled it together apparently “missed it by THAT much.” Macy’s put a 132-inch autostereoscopic 3D …
Russian startup projecting interactive visuals on man-made fog November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes This seems to be cool interactive display day around the armed compound. The latest is word of a Russian start-up that is doing smaller, interactive variations on the fog screen thing a Finnish company debuted a few years ago. This company, called Displair, projects images on a steady stream of cold fog to make visuals …
Intel-InWindow launch big-dollar interactive “Experience Stations” November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes Intel appears to be taking its digital signage concept ideas off trade show floors and getting them into the wild, most notably though “Experience Stations” being run with New York-based Inwindow Outdoor. These stations are 70-inch multi-touch screens that also respond to gestures using Microsoft Kinect. They have built-in NFC and run Intel’s Audience Impression …
A “Surface” for real-world budgets November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes A few things have struck me when I have seen the Microsoft Surface interactive tables in the wild. 1 – Cool. 2 – Buggy. 3 – Crazy expensive. I don’t know if Point 2 is addressed with this, but a new Surface-style touchscreen product set to debut in a couple of months at CES certainly …
NanoLumens gets shot at backboard advertising November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes The Atlanta-based display firm NanoLumens have found their way into a market I’m guessing the guys didn’t cook up on their own, but might have some legs. The company won a small job to build four custom units to use at the annual Maui Invitational NCAA Men’s college basketball tournament in Hawaii. The organizers wanted a …
Digital signage software and player on a USB stick? November 22, 2011 by Dave Haynes Jason Cremins of SignageLive had a tweet up this morning about a Norwegian start-up that has a PC that is the size of a car cigarette lighter, but capable of running Android and driving 1080P video. Laptop magazine reports how FXI Technologies showed off a USB stick-sized portable computer prototype, complete with a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung …
