Samsung-driven Hair Salon Of The Future, With 50 Or So Screens, Opens In NJ July 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes The sheer number of hair and nail salons out there – what strip mall have you seen that doesn’t have one? – has always made the sector attractive as a vertical for digital signage technology. It helps that these environments have lotsa wait time, high loyalty and all kinds of high-margin products and services to …
Tokyo Airport Duty-Free Uses LED All The Way Down To Merchandising Counters July 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes It’s rare to see a new-build store kitted out with digital displays BEFORE it gets merchandised and opened up, so this is an interesting little video showing fine pitch LED used all over a duty-free shop at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The duty-free is working with the Shenzhen-based but Japanese market-focused LED firm Shisai Optoelectronics. The …
Samsung Launches Its 24″ All-In-One Kiosk And Supporting Software Partner Ecosystem June 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes
Start-up Monetizes Sidewalk Air Pollution Scrubber Towers For Cityscapes With OOH Ad Faces June 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen out of home media companies attach advertising faces to all kinds of things out in public – like transit shelters, pylons and sidewalk directories – but now a UK start-up has a solution on streets that pairs an ad face with an sidewalk air scrubber. The environmental media start-up Pluvo has partnered with KineticX, …
Giant BSOD Greets Motorists On Sydney Highway June 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes There’s always another one, so I am not validating the Linkedin speculation that this is the world’s biggest Blue Screen Of Death, but it would have to be up there in scale. This is on a motorway in Sydney, Australia, and is an LED ad screen for a media company in that country. The Linkedin …
Rise Vision, Sharp NEC Partner On Raspberry Pi-Driven Digital Signage Solution For Schools June 23, 2021 by Dave Haynes Rise Vision and Sharp NEC Display Solutions have done a partnership that sees K-12 schools and higher education institutions getting a free year of using Rise Vision’s CMS platform with NEC Display MediaPlayer solution they purchase. As part of this partnership, Rise Vision has integrated their solution with the NEC MediaPlayer via the pre-installed Raspberry …
Sport Direct’s Oxford Street Flagship In London Has 100M Pixels Of Digital Display June 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes There are exceptions, but in general terms the one retail vertical that pretty consistently goes to town with screens in stores is sports and recreation. You don’t typically see new builds and renos for clothing, grocery or mass merchandise putting screens all over the place, but that definitely still happens in sports retailing. A lot …
Purina Puts Some 200 Lift And Learn Digital End Caps In US Midwest Groceries June 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interactive end-cap for big box stores that uses sensors and a touch screen, as well as print graphics, to get shoppers learning more about a line of pet food products. Ther end-caps are in some 200 supermarkets in the US midwest, in a program for Purina put together by the NYC-based interactive …
Planar Launches Virtual Studio Initiative, With Fine Pitch LED Supplanting Green Screens For Movie Shoots June 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes Planar is the latest large format display company to sense and go after the rapidly emerging virtual production business – which sees big direct view LED displays replacing green screens on film and broadcast production sets. There is a lot of inertia around this use-case for fine pitch LED because a flat or rounded studio …
Samsung Gets Its Outdoor Terrace Prosumer Signage Displays UL-Certified … For Visibility June 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certifications are a big aspect of consumer and business technology sales and marketing, with integrators, solutions providers and end-users tending to not buy product that doesn’t come with UL safety test certifications. UL certification is VERY common in digital signage, but I have not previously seen the testing and certification applied to something …
