What The Rapid Adoption Rate For 4K UHD Means For Digital Signage November 11, 2016 by Super User The marketplace, at least in the US and by extension Canada, is going 4K UHD at a rate far quicker than the advent years ago of HDTV. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced holiday season shipments of 4K UHD televisions in the United States are expected to reach 4.5 million units, bringing the total for the …
Cineplex Digital Media Rolling Out Digital OOH Display Network in Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge Malls November 7, 2016 by Super User Cineplex Digital Media has announced it won an RFP process to install, maintain and operate a digital OOH display network at 21 Ivanhoé Cambridge shopping centres across Canada. The network involves nearly 230 digital displays at Ivanhoé Cambridge mall properties across Canada. The display solution is a combination of double-sided 86-inch “Floor Media” displays, as well as displays on …
Tech Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Merging Augmented Reality And Digital Signage November 3, 2016 by Super User Via Nikkei Asian Review Monster Asian technology manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has announced its funding of a newly-formed startup aimed at bringing augmented reality into digital signage. Foxconn Executive Vice President Lu Fang-ming did an augmented reality presentation, showing his image dynamically integrated into real-time graphics, at a demo Wednesday …
Soofa’s Color Epaper Information Stations Start Deploying On Boston Sidewalks November 3, 2016 by Super User Here’s one of the first sightings in the wild of a 32-inch color epaper display being used for public information. An MIT Media Lab spinoff called Soofa has started installing public information displays in Boston, running off nothing but solar power and updated using a 3G M2M wireless connection. Developed by Soofa, and running on …
Walmart Testing Giant Digital Vending Machine For In-Store Pick-ups November 1, 2016 by Super User There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Buy Online/Pick-up In Store tower is a 15-foot tall multi-sided kiosk thingie that allows locals to order items online …
Simon Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Interactive Stations Across US Malls October 31, 2016 by Super User The US shopping mall giant Simon is rolling out a shiny new set of big 65-inch interactive directories to nine shopping centres, using a blend of touch and screen to mobile capabilities like NFC, beacons and text. The units, a press release suggests, also use proximity sensors that make the interactive component “come to life” …
Sales Beating Forecasts For All-In-One Displays, Sold In Taiwan Costcos October 30, 2016 by Super User Costco regulars will confirm my experience that all kinds of things turn up on the spartan shelves of the member-based warehouse retailer. But I don’t recall seeing any digital signage products for sale, as they are in Taiwan. That country’s 12 big box Costcos are selling 50-inch all-in-one kiosks, and sales results are so far beating …
New York Digital Signage Week (Ok, Days For Me) October 27, 2016 by Super User Halfway through a whirlwind trip in and out of New York for a few events associated with what’s been dubbed New York Digital Signage Week. It’s a compilation of events and cocktail parties and open houses, some that have been on for years, and others that have developed around this DS week theme. I did …
Meeting Room Signs Growth Is Kinda Crazy October 25, 2016 by Super User About 18 months ago I put up a post about the handful of options I could find out there for putting little digital displays outside meeting room and conference room drawers. Traffic just kept building on that one post, and I ultimately decided last fall to develop a dedicated micro-site and directory that listed all the various options …
France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays October 20, 2016 by Super User The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or …
