LED Mesh Displays In Windows Turn Iconic Madrid Bank Building Into Media Facade October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship Caixabank branch in Madrid, in Plaza Colón, that uses much of the facade of a Norman Foster-designed building as a screen. The digital aspect used see-through mesh LED displays in the windows, and there is a LOT of full-wall LED inside the branch, all running custom experiential content that does not …
Workspace Design Giant Unispace Acquires Experiential Content Shop Downstream October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes In another sign that companies specializing in workplace design need digital experience chops, Unispace has acquired the Portland-based experiential design firm Downstream. Unispace, which is based in Sydney, Australia but has offices all over the place, says it has bought a firm that is great at integrating interactive digital and physical experiences in global tech …
QSR Chain Uses Transparent LCDs On Grab’n’Go Lockers To Guide Order Pickups October 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Transparent LCD displays have been around for a decade or more, but aside from those screens in grocery chiller doors, I’ve not seen widespread adoption or many use-cases that looked all that good or effective. But here’s one … This is a flagship location in Austria of True Chicken, a QSR chain that specializes in …
Korean Mega-Mall’s 72-Foot Atrium Video Wall Controlled By Smartphone App In Environmental Campaign October 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The press release borders on impenetrable, but the accompanying image for news about a short-term video wall creative piece in South Korea makes it worth noting. The 22-metre-tall LED video tower in the central atrium of the Starfield Hanam shopping mall started running an art piece yesterday that is controlled, at least in part, by …
Streaming Place-based TV Spin-out Atmosphere Adds Canada, Australia and New Zealand To Service Coverage October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Austin-based streaming TV for business service Atmosphere is expanding beyond its U.S. operations, opening up new markets in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Austin-based company, which has a series of OTT streaming short-form TV channels geared to place-based media environments like restaurants, bars, gyms, hotels and doctors’ offices. The company says it already has …
Atmosphere Adds Streaming, Steadily-Updated News To Place-Based TV Channel Options October 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes Bandwidth has sped up and stabilized to a level that using streaming TV as part or all of a digital signage/DOOH solution no longer seems unpredictable and risky, and a good example of where things are heading is an Austin, TX company called Atmosphere, which spun out a couple of years ago from Chive Media …
AI-Driven Generative Art For Video Walls Generates $5M At Sotheby’s NFT Auction October 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes Let me immediately get out of the way the reality that I know very close to zippo about cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs. I take considerable comfort in how some very smart people who I follow on tech podcasts and in publications also say they can’t quite wrap their heads around it all, and …
Eyedog Uses Annotated Photos Instead Of Maps As Wayfinding Guides September 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes A company in the Philly area does an intriguingly different take on indoor wayfinding and navigation – using photos instead of maps to help people find their way around large, complicated footprint facilities like office and health care campuses. With roots in the Netherlands, Eyedog says its technology “uses a scientific approach that combines “landmark” …
Singing Soup Pot At Grocery End Cap Drives Whopping 240% Sales Lift September 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is another project that is not digital signage but speaks to the idea of having fun with in-store displays and content, and not just telling shoppers about promotions and offers. It comes out of Bolivia (this may be the first Sixteen:Nine post, period, involving Bolivia) and is for the Nestle brand Maggi, a soup …
Intuiface Launches Rebuilt, Redesigned No-Code Interactive (And Headless) Toolset September 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes The French firm Intuiface has announced Version 7 of its same-named software – a complete rebuild and redesign of its code-base and UX that lowers resource demands and plays to the rapidly emerging ideas of no or low code, and headless CMS. Intuiface Version 7 makes heavy use of progressive web app technology that makes …
