Prague’s Airport Testing Digital Signage Display Tied To Predominant Passenger Languages August 14, 2019 by Super User The international airport at Prague, in the Czech Republic, is testing a digital signage-driven communications system that tailors content to the predominant language of arriving travelers. I’ve seen this done in places like Dubai for advertising at baggage carousels, but in this case, it is entirely driven by the airport management’s desire to relay passenger …
Cruise Line’s Mega-Ship Includes Dining Hall With Experiential LED Walls August 9, 2019 by Super User The Spectrum of the Seas, a new mega-cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International, uses big direct view LED screens to great effect in its main dining room. The three level dining area can feed more than 1,800 people at once. Passengers walk in from two decks, via a 16-meter-long LED corridor. For …
Empire State Building Opens Screen-Filled Museum Designed To Entertain, Educate Observatory Line-ups August 8, 2019 by Super User The Empire State Building in New York has opened a 10,000 square foot museum in the 2nd floor of the building as a mechanism to reduce perceptions of long waiting lines to get to the observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors. The museum has a pile of technology in it, most notably a gallery with 72 …
Iconic Philly Department Store Building Adds Gorgeous LED Digital Entry Canopy July 30, 2019 by Super User Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. Now renovated, revitalized, and …
Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why July 29, 2019 by Super User Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at …
McDonald’s Interrupting Full Digital Menuboards To Run Lion King Promos July 25, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip @BradParler for tweeting on this … This seems like a really bad idea – running an interstitial-style ad for a new movie promo that completely takes over the digital menus at a McDonald’s somewhere in the U.S. Presumably, given it is an expensive spot and McDonald’s has a Happy Meal tie-in with the …
Mike Kilian On The Opportunities And Challenges Of Workplace Digital Signage July 24, 2019 by Super User Just about anyone involved on the sales or management side of digital signage these days knows that workplace communications has pretty quickly grown into one of the most active and interesting verticals. With QSRs, the other hot vertical, you’re doing menus and digital promo posters. In the workplace, all kinds of interesting things are possible, …
Intuiville Lets Developers Wander Virtual Digital Showrooms For Interactive Ideas July 18, 2019 by Super User The French firm that offers a coding-free platform for creating, deploying, measuring and managing interactive digital screens has produced an interesting virtual showroom that highlights dozens of use-cases and ideas. Intuiface launched Intuiville, intended as the “most comprehensive guide to digital interactivity at work.” Lots of software and hardware companies in the signage ecosystem have …
Apollo 11 Moonshot Projection-Mapped On Washington Monument July 18, 2019 by Super User We are in the midst of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon – something I am old enough to remember following on an antenna-fed black and white TV in a Wisconsin campground. Technology has improved just a bit in five decades, and the amazing Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in …
New, Free Online Tool Helps Digital Signage Content Designers Get Font Sizes Right July 16, 2019 by Super User Montreal’s Telecine, a longtime digital signage content and solutions provider, has come up with a clever online calculator designed to help network operators and content developers ensure their messages are readable by viewers. The best practice for content design is to produce material and then view it on the size and resolution of screen, and …
