Drone-Based Light Show Puts Giant Atop Skyscraper November 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes Photo composite from Daily Star (UK) This is much more entertainment and spectacle than signage, but nonetheless a really interesting application of technology to form an animated display. Somewhere in China – not quite sure which big city, and there are many – a drone-based light show has a skyscraper-sized figure atop a skyscraper. This …
Feeble Email Open Rates Make The Case For Workplace Digital Signage November 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes One of the reasons digital signage is getting a lot of traction as a tool for workplace communications is its ability to reach hard-to-reach employees with important messaging, and a big factor is the feeble effectiveness of emails. New research is confirming what was well known – that e-mail open and click-through rates were low …
390 Little Mirrored Bricks Create Kinetic Display In NYC HQ Building Lobby November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes This isn’t really digital signage, but the tech comes from a small Brooklyn creative hardware shop that works around the edges of the industry, using a modern take on flip disc displays. Pulse is a two-story tall just fired up at the brand new global headquarters for Equinox in Hudson Yards in New York. Equinox …
Trey Courtney Details How Mood Media Delivers Sensory Experiences In Retail November 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes There’s a decent chance that when you walk into a retailer in a developed country, and you hear music or some sort of in-store audio playing, that’s Mood Media. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
1,312 Dining Positions Projection-Mapped For Amway Celebration Dinner October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip AV Magazine The multi-level marketing company Amway celebrated 60 years in business with a massive dinner for 1,300 in Las Vegas, using projection-mapping at each diner’s seating position. The private dinner at the Mandalay Bay was pulled together by event agency Wilson Dow, which contracted the projection mapping company Skullmapping, which has a background doing this …
The Evolution Of Human-Computer Interaction And Digital Signage October 25, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix If you want to use a computer or other digital device, you have to interact with it in some way. There’s a whole discipline devoted to this, called Human-Computer Interaction, or HCI (though sometimes it’s called CHI, putting the computer first). HCI is really the place where communication between person …
Nutrislice Bridges Menuboard Solutions With Foodservices Tech Provider CBORD October 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Foodservice-focused digital signage service provider Nutrislice has done an interesting deal with a tech solutions provider to integrate with a company that does loyalty cards and online/mobile ordering for the same vertical. Denver-based Nutrislice is tying in its system with CBORD’s GET Campus Card and Foodservice Suite, which will by Q1 2020 allow students to pre-order …
Korean Tire-maker Adds Mind-Blowing LED Video Wall In HQ Lobby October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes The content for the video wall in the Seoul R&D offices of Nexen, a Korean tire company, is freaking amazing. The lobby of the building has a 30 meter (98.5 feet) wide by 7 meter (23 feet) tall fine pitch LED media wall running a diverse range of custom creative developed by the agency d’strict. …
London’s Transport System Redesigns Status Screens To Improve Viewing Experience September 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes I can’t find the official word from Transport for London but have now seen a couple of separate references to that city’s mass transport system testing what I would say are improved status update screens on the Underground system. The information layout and presentation on 400 or so Electronic Service Update Boards (ESUBs) across the …
