50-Foot Tall Digital Sphere Greets Guests, Visitors At New Vegas Strip Resort August 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am not quite sure what this is and how it all works, but the recently opened Resorts World hotel and casino on the Strip in Las Vegas – up past the Wynn and Encore – has a giant digital mirror ball. It is 50-foot-tall mirrored sphere in a main common area of the new …
Japanese C-Store Chain Family Mart Has Three-Year For Multiple Screens In 16K+ Stores August 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Japanese C-store chain FamilyMart has announced a serious investment in in-store digital, with a three-year plan to deploy multiple screens across a footprint of more than 16,600 neighborhood convenience stores. Japan Today reports: This month Family Mart announced a new digital media and advertising plan in which FamilyMart branches around Japan will be equipped with several large-screen …
Witnesses In The Case For Digital Drive-Thru August 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the arguments I have been making in the last year or so about COVID and digital signage is how the pandemic really reinforced how valuable instantly or easily updated messaging was to retailers, restaurant operators and venue managers. Here’s a classic case of what happens when you don’t have it – from a …
Dutch Wholesaler Fills New Customer Experience Center With 46 Flat Panels August 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Dutch wholesaler Technische Unie has lit up a new 450 sq. m. interactive experience center that uses 46 large flat panel displays to inform and inspire industry partners. The Eindhoven company has been around since 1880 and works with more than 700 suppliers worldwide, with 280,000 SKUs associated with technical installation materials for housing, …
Full Building Brand Experience Goal Of Re-opened Kia 360 In Seoul August 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Invidis for tipping me on this … The South Korean car manufacturer Kia has redesigned and reopened a dedicated brand experience building in Seoul, dubbed Kia 360 and filled with digital displays that showcase its vehicles, as well as mobility solutions. The space was previously known as BEAT360, but having the brand name …
It Takes 12 Techs And Seven Days To Service, Optimize That Huge New LED Wall At The LVCC August 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The deployment and field services firm USSI Global has pushed out an interesting press release about its role in dealing with that massive video wall that’s been lit up in the lobby of the new part of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Samsung has already put out a lot of material about the 4mm LED …
Swiss Timepiece Firm Uses Super-Nice Mosaic LCD Video Wall In NYC Store To Drive Its Brand August 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of how LCD can still do a fabulous job as a signature video wall – a mosaic with sync’d content in a New York store of the Swiss luxury timepiece firm Bucherer. Eric Buterbaugh of New York-based content Show+Tell posted the video (below) on Linkedin, but he is a master …
NanoLumens Broadens Offer, Adds Fixed-Size All-In-One LED Display Bundles August 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based LED manufacturer NanoLumens has joined the growing list of display makers who have broadened the product line to include all-in-one bundled displays. NanoLumens had its start, like most LED companies, with larger, free-form tiled LED module systems that could be built to conform to whatever dimension was necessary – ideally a large dimension with …
Asian Fast Food Chain Itsu Does COVID-driven Pivot To Self-Service Order Screens And Meal Status Displays August 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has forced a lot of fast food and fast casual restaurant operators to rethink how they operated – from adding drive-thru capability to reducing the amount of staff-to-customer interactions. What the Asian-inspired Itsu chain is doing in the UK is a good, though certainly not unique, example of how those kinds of restaurants …
Samsung Remotely Disabling Connected Smart TVs Stolen By South African Looters August 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes Samsung has announced an interesting way to deal with looting and theft of smart TVs and, I assume, smart commercial displays – remotely disabling them and rendering the screens useless. The electronics giant announced recently that it would use a designed-in “block function” on smart screens to neuter stolen TVs in South Africa when they …
