Bloomingfail: 50 Gorgeous LG OLEDs Largely Hidden By Fixtures At NYC Flagship’s New Pop-Up Shop September 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes The 59th Street NYC flagship of Bloomingdale’s is using two walls of LG commercial OLEDs as feature backdrops for its new new rotating pop-up shop, called The Carousel. The idea behind The Carousel @ Bloomingdale’s is to tell “culturally relevant stories driven by guest curators, each with a unique theme and an unexpected mix of products …
Stretch LCD Columns Bring Digital Branding To Flagship Jewelry Chain Stores September 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes A little ironically, I am on my way to Montreal on an in-and-out speaking thing as this post goes up about work Montreal’s iGotcha Media is doing with Birks, which has been operating luxury jewelry stores in Canada for many, many decades. Birks is using vertical video walls to subtly underscore its brand in flagship stores. …
Transparent And High-Bright LCDs Paired To Create 3D-ish Display September 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Transparent LCD has been around for years now, but UK-based Crystal Display Systems has put a different spin on their use by marrying a transparent screen with a regular light-backed LCD in the same display case. The company calls the system ClearVue 3DP – using what it calls polarmatch technology. “The high brightness panel and transparent …
Cineplex Wins Digital Menu Boards Deal For European Subway Shops September 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe.” The digital signage wing of Cineplex, the dominant movie chain in Canada, is providing strategic creative content, consulting services and marketing initiatives to Subway, …
UK’s Ultrahaptics Launches Plug And Play Device For Touch-Free Interactive Screens September 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes A UK company has released a plug and play device that allows digital signage and interactive solutions companies to easily develop immersive screen projects that use haptics technology. The new STRATOS Inspire uses arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands, creating the sense of touch in mid-air. Ultrahaptics’ patented technology controls …
McDonald’s Seeing 3%-3.5% Sales Bump Through Dynamic Digital Menu Displays September 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes A reader pointed me to a fascinating piece in Forbes from back in April about McDonald’s that goes into how the QSR giant is using big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive sales on menu boards and the self-ordering kiosks that are showing up in many stores. The piece is more than anything a round-up of …
LED Displays As Street Lamp Digital OOH Signs September 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes I get marketing emails all day, every day, from Chinese LED manufacturers showing me their latest pots and pans – and 99% of them look pretty much the same. I thought this was different and kind of interesting, in terms of application for the digital OOH market. It’s a direct view LED sign, shaped like …
Grocer Lets Shoppers Order Fresh Veg Off Kiosk, From On-Premise Roof Garden September 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes There is endless talk in this business about connecting digital signage to customer experience, but it’s not that often that I see initiatives that get beyond those customers seeing something or other on screens. This is different. A grocer in suburban Montreal, Quebec used a touchscreen and live-cam feed from a rooftop garden to let …
Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation September 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. …
AOPEN Releases Small-Format 15 & 19-Inch All-In-Ones For Win 10, Linux September 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based digital signage hardware firm AOPEN has released a pair of small format all-in-one touch displays aimed at the self-service and retail market – the interesting twist being their support for Windows 10 and Linux. The company previously released all-in-ones built around ChromeOS, and the general trend of late has been all-in-ones using Android (which …
