Interactive: Screenreach Launches Dance With Cheryl Cole Mobile App August 6, 2012 by Super User The guys at Screenreach have launched a program that lets shoppers at a UK mall spark up their smartphones and emulate the dance moves of Brit pop star Cheryl Cole. The movement-based dance game requires people – presumably 16 year old girls are the audience here – to download a Screach mobile app and then …
Content: Rise’s Interactive Profiler Gadget Used For College Hall Of Fame August 6, 2012 by Super User Halls of fame and donor walls are recognition efforts that are really well-suited to interactive digital screens, simply because a plaque or photo can only tell relate the bare essentials about the people people being celebrated. RiseVision has a post up on its blog pointing out how a small college in Oregon, southwest of Portland, …
Aerva Twitter Tool Makes Tweet Stream Safer For Digital Signage Networks August 1, 2012 by Super User Aerva was one of the first digital signage software companies to jump on the Twitter visualization thing, and the company has announced a new product called AerTweet that significantly juices up the offer. “Aerva also created our Twitter widget almost five years ago now—in the early days of Twitter,” founder and CEO Sanjay Manandhar related via …
A VERY Different Take On Digital Signage Wayfinding July 30, 2012 by Super User DISFORM 2012 – BAR sign in action from Dani Wolf on Vimeo. Tweets like this tend to catch the eye … https://twitter.com/Pufferfish_Ltd/statuses/229961140694818816 Pufferfish is a Scottish firm that does spherical displays, and has someone who apparently doesn’t think much of the wayfinding work in digital signage at the moment. So I went and had a …
Sightings: Nike’s Camp Victory At 2012 Track Trials July 10, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”45077052 ” width=”610″ height=”343″] Nike did something akin to a pop-up store – but more like an experience center – during the recent US Olympics team tracki and field trials in a soggy Eugene, OR. Called Camp Victory, it was open during the 10 days of the trials, giving track-lovers and Nike devotees a technology-driven brand …
Challenging The Content And Context Formula July 3, 2012 by Super User Context when it comes to content can be pretty important, but a new content partnership raises an interesting set of questions about that whole idea of tuning content to to the environment and what’s going on in it. The Reelzchannel – a cable/sat network that is nothing but movies content – has announced a partnership …
Sightings: Rockin’ Tacos Menu Boards June 27, 2012 by Super User UCView software is driving new menu boards at some place called Rockin’ Tacos in Lost Wages. The creative team can probably save the stamps when it comes to awards, BUT what I like about this can be summed up in one sentence: You could actually read the selections from a distance. I have seen three …
Arsenal Plans To Pour On the Content At InfoComm June 6, 2012 by Super User Denys Lavigne and the other folks at Arsenal Media will just about have the InfoComm floor to themselves next week when it comes to creative content services, which is a pretty nice situation given that floor will be filled with pro AV people who know how to get content to screens but are generally stumped …
Screenfeed Automates London Olympics Coverage For Digital Signage Networks May 31, 2012 by Super User This is smart. There will be tons of interest in the upcoming Olympics in London and content that shows rolling results, images and video will be in demand. Screenfeed has packaged up dynamic content bundles built exclusively for digital signage, with material that works with and without sound. The Bronze package has a live medal count showing the …
Belgian Travel Agency Makes The World Its Video Wall May 30, 2012 by Super User Hat tip to OOH-TV for spotting this the other day … Video walls seem to be an area of genuine growth in this sector, owing a lot to thinning seams and also to lowered costs. But apart from some interesting stuff done at trade shows, how often have you seen a deployed video wall (setting MicroTiles …
