Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Super User Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
The Digital Campus: The Rising Challenge For Education April 9, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose. Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on …
Computer Vision Insights Used To Tweak Content And Boost Photo Booth Sales by 24% April 6, 2018 by Super User The biggest U.S. manufacturer and operator of digital imaging photo booths used audience and attention analytics technology to optimize marketing content on screens outside the booths and boost sales in a test case by 24%. New York-based Innovative Foto, which owns and operates 2,400 booths nationwide, gets tens of millions of customer interactions every year in places …
Instagram And Facebook Say Abrupt API Changes Tied To Broader Privacy Concerns April 5, 2018 by Super User Facebook’s newsroom page does NOT want to load for me – the loading circle thingie just spins and spins in Chrome – so I can’t read the company’s statement about why its Instagram wing made abrupt changes to its API yesterday that broke the functionality on a lot of third-party Instagram applications, including social media …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Super User This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
Instagram Changed Its API, And Now Your Version On Digital Signs Probably Isn’t Working April 5, 2018 by Super User If your digital signage or digital OOH network calls and displays Instagram posts/pix, you may well have an issue because of API changes made by the social media company. The short story is – a lot of what you show may no longer show. If you don’t have logins for Instagram account you want to …
Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle April 5, 2018 by Super User This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. The domes house more than 40,000 plants from the cloud forest regions of over 30 countries – making for a workplace that feels, …
Interactive She Too Digital Wall Prompts On-The-Spot Donations April 4, 2018 by Super User This is a nice charity campaign in Toronto’s underground PATH concourse system that weaves through much of the central business district – involving a video wall and a nearby station that enables on-the-spot donations. PATTISON Outdoor and its digital innovation arm, Fourthwall, teamed up with local agency Jungle Media to promote CARE Canada’s She Too …
Here Are The DSE 2018 Project And Creative Award Winners … March 30, 2018 by Super User Here are the winners from this year’s awards program at Digital Signage Expo, announced and handed out Wednesday at a reception. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation McCann Systems for 150 Media Stream Business and Government Services Dreambox Visual Communications for 22nd World Petroleum Congress Official Opening Ceremony Education and Healthcare Forge Media + Design for Holomodor …
16:9 Projects Podcast: A 16K LED Ceiling On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile March 23, 2018 by Super User While shopping at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile mall patrons can look to the ceiling and see a 190 foot long canopy of trees. Or, if they look at another moment, they may see a kaleidoscope of colours or a flock of local birds. That’s because the skylight is actually a high definition LED canvas with content …
