DOOH-Focused AI Computer Vision Start-up Alfi Adds CMS Partner Amidst Legal Issues February 14, 2022 by Super User I’d put this in the category of rabbit-holes one can sometimes end up down when looking into something – in this case an AI computer vision startup serving DOOH companies that has found itself in a post-IPO class-action lawsuit. I was doing a never-heard-of-them look into a company called Alfi because a press release out …
Real-Time Virtual Smog Visualizes Air Quality On Warsaw Billboard February 10, 2022 by Super User The Polish digital OOH media firm Screen Network has an interest and knack for blending its campaigns with real-time data from systems and sensors, and has now done that for an information campaign about air quality running on one of its primary LED display locations in central Warsaw. The in-house campaign was built around the …
Wing Stop Rolls Out Smart Digital Menu Displays Across Growing UK Footprint February 9, 2022 by Super User It now seems odd to see a QSR chain that is NOT using digital menu boards and other displays in their stores and in drive-thrus, but a deployment of screens across the UK estate of a wings and fries chain is interesting on a couple of counts. Wingstop UK (managed by Lemon Pepper Holdings ltd) …
Louisville’s Bus Routes Add GPS-Updated Rider Kiosks February 9, 2022 by Super User The LA-area digital signage solutions provider Red Dot Digital Media has an interesting technical case study out on a project done with Silicon Valley media player shop BrightSign for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), a major public transportation provider in Louisville, KY. The project saw a network of digital kiosks located at each …
Locating Graves Made Easy By Putting Digital Wayfinding Kiosks In A Norwegian Cemetery February 8, 2022 by Super User Hat Tip to Peter Ødemark for pointing me to this … There will be people who will utter the old “Now I’ve seen everything” phrase when they read about a Norwegian cemetery using interactive digital wayfinding screens, but I think it is clever way to address a tangible and very familiar problem. A Norwegian firm located …
SF Startup Starts Marketing Its Own Take On Flip-Disc/Split-Flap Displays February 3, 2022 by Super User I don’t know if the modern takes on old-school flip-disc or split-flap sign technology would qualify as digital signage, but I’ve always liked the kinetic, noisy nature of signs that have madly spinning characters that eventually lock in and present a message – whether that’s revised train arrival times at a rail hall or drink …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Super User The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
StratosMedia Adds QR Code Tracking, Management To Digital Signage CMS January 25, 2022 by Super User The lowly QR code – for many years seemingly more the subject of discussion than use – got a huge boost from the pandemic, with those more detailed bar codes popping up as a means to relay information and links during times of steady change, and also enable touch-free interactions. That jump is usage happened …
NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Super User Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
Schools-Focused TrilbyTV Adds Mr. Bee’s Math Tasks To Screen Content Mix January 24, 2022 by Super User Education digital signage solution providers TrilbyTV have developed an interesting new content partnership that puts daily math tasks from a teacher named Mr. Bee on UK school screens. The visuals present maths challenges to schoolkids, and add to a line-up of other visual tools being used already, including material from Vocabulary Ninja, Rodocodo, Britannica and …
