Projects: WTF In Denver February 25, 2015 by Super User This is a really nice digital install at a new Denver restaurant called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, or WTF for short. It’s just up the block from the funky old warehouse offices of Four Winds Interactive, which put the project together for the owners. FWI CEO took me down there Tuesday to grab a bite and …
Why Update A MenuBoard Digitally When You Have Duct Tape Handy? February 20, 2015 by Super User This is just all kinds of awesome – as relayed by a regular reader. It’s a digital display used by a BBQ/pulled pork food concession at the big international auto show in Toronto. It appears the concession went out of stock on an item, and in the absence of having the tools or even …
Guy Proposes, Backed By C-Store Digital Sign February 17, 2015 by Super User A couple that frequents a Wawa c-store in Easton, PA likes the place so much one of them proposed to the other, right in the store, with a digital sign a central part of the big moment. “The couple frequent Wawa often (they say it’s one of their favorite places!), so they wanted to include …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Freshwater Digital Media Partners February 16, 2015 by Super User Matt Downey, President, Freshwater Digital Media Partners Content Pavilion – Booth C3 Why do people going to DSE need to put Freshwater on their Must See list of booths? Because We Do Content! Freshwater focuses on the Digital Signage industry and continually strives to deliver smart, high quality custom creative content that is reasonably priced. …
Projects: Tablet Choir Does Beethoven’s Ode To Joy February 14, 2015 by Super User And here we have 300 tablets all synced together, with Android avatars, singing Beethoven’s Ode To Joy as part of a Google Japan promotion. Extroverts at a shopping mall in Japan, where this was installed this week, got a T-shirt if they tried conducting the choir, via a gesture sensor. Digital signage? Well, sorta, given …
Data Visualization: How The World Reacted To Kanye, Sia Et Al At Grammys February 10, 2015 by Super User I have been blabbering on for anyone that will listen about the possibilities good data visualization has for digital signage. I stress good because a lot of the visually interesting stuff I have seen falls down a little when you try to decode what the information is conveying. In other words, it can look cool, …
Projects: TravelCenters’ Screens Integrated With Back-End Data February 2, 2015 by Super User I’m not what you’d call enthusiastic about the approach the client has taken to content design here – too much, too little, where to start – but I do like back-end integration that Burlington, ON-based ADFLOW Networks has put together for TravelCenters of America. The digital signage CMS company has integrated its platform with the enterprise …
Is Projection Mapping Digital Signage? Nope. February 2, 2015 by Super User I saw a few tweets last night after the Katy Perry lip sync medley halftime at the Super Bowl gushing about how cool the digital signage was at the big game. https://twitter.com/route802/status/562072660897579008 Well … yes, the projection mapping was kinda sorta cool. Seen way better at this game. But yeah, still … However, it was not digital signage. That …
Digital Signage As Crowd Control? December 31, 2014 by Super User I’ve spent lots of time meeting with shopping mall operators talking about the wide variety of uses for digital signage around their facilities, but I never thought of crowd disbursement as one of them. This is what was on the screen at the Mall of America, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, at the height of a protest …
Two More Free Holiday Videos You Can Build Yourself December 18, 2014 by Super User My partners at Shakr in Seoul have generated a handful of free DIY video templates that can be used to create holiday season greetings for customers and visitors to businesses, using Spotomate. All users need to do is get a few photos organized, drag them into the browser workspace, and fill in some text fields. …
