Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017 December 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. Going down the list, which is not in any order, most of these …
See How A Lexus Gets Lit Up And Reactive With 42,000 LEDs December 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Tom McGowan … This is about a year old but the first I’ve seen of an interesting car launch promo – tied in with a music video – that uses almost 42,000 hand-applied programmable LEDs to light up a Lexus luxury sedan. Three distinct modes, says a press release, allow the LIT IS …
LCBO Pop-Up Booze Store Uses Digital Touchpoints To Market Wine, Whiskey December 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. The LCBO Pop-Up west of downtown Toronto, at the hipstery nexus of King Street and Portland, was set up to build awareness and attract new customers …
Denmark’s Realfiction To Launch Large-Format Hologram-like DeepFrame At CES December 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Danish company that has shown small pyramid-shaped hologram-like displays at recent Digital Signage Expos will be showing a much larger take on mixed reality at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas. Realfiction will he unveiling DeepFrame, a large glass window that uses the reflection of an OLED display’s image to create an overlay …
Free Xibo Digital Signage CMS Adds Commercial LG webOS Player December 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes The open source digital signage CMS Xibo now has a software player that will work happily with LG’s webOS smart displays, but it’s not free like the mothership CMS. The new webOS player has a one-time fee of 120 GBP, or about $160 USD. If you equated that to a SaaS fee over three years, …
Media Studies College Makes Giant Trapezoidal LED Display Lobby Centerpiece December 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby of the new home for the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) on the campus of Georgia State University, with the focal point a 34-foot wide trapezoidal curved LED display. The downtown Atlanta building is home to the university’s digital media and film industries studies. “Our new Creative Media Industries Institute building …
Why All Room Management Signboards Are Not Created Equal December 6, 2017 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea The modern workplace is undergoing a digital transformation, reinvented with the latest technologies to strengthen employee productivity, improve returns of investments on the facilities and enhance corporate image for visitors. One of the most significant changes happening at the doorsteps of the meeting room is the installation of a “room …
Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift November 29, 2017 by Dave Haynes A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick …
3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table November 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. Make Studios created a 3D printed skyline …
iGirouette Digital Street Signs Get First Rollout In Lyon. France November 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes If you’ve been at ISE in Amsterdam the last couple of years, and particularly the 2017 version, you will likely have noticed digital directional signs that are a bit of a hybrid of a street sign post and a wayfinding system. It’s a system I thought was really interesting, but wondered if there were real …
