South Korean Government Pumping $67 Million USD Into Country’s Digital Signage Industry: Report December 28, 2015 by Super User South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will spend 78.9 billion won (or $ 67.3 million USD) to nurture the digital signage industry in that country, apparently seeing the sector as a growth engine. The report, in the Korea Herald, says that the ministry will, through 2018, plans to expand support for start-ups involved in …
London’s Transport Authority Testing Interactive E Ink Bus Stop Schedules December 24, 2015 by Super User London’s transport authority has started testing real-time electronic paper bus stops – solar-powered displays that can connect in to data that reflects cloud-predicted arrival times. The first unit is at a stop at Waterloo Bridge, and three more e-paper bus stops are due to be installed in January at Parliament Square, Piccadilly Circus and Sloane Square. …
Projects: GE Aviation Opens Tech Experience Center In Dubai December 22, 2015 by Super User Here’s a look inside GE Aviation’s new Middle East Aviation Technology Center, which opened last month in the Dubai Airport Free Zone area. The facility – in one of those parts of Dubai where foreign companies are encouraged to set up shop – is there to support customers and help them optimize aviation operations in the region, …
Projects: East-Central China Mall Gets Massive Flying LED Ribbon December 20, 2015 by Super User A new retail project in Zhengzhou, in the east-central part of China, ups the game on the idea of filling the ceiling of a large area with an LED display. Called the Flying Ribbon, and located in the city’s HuiYi Times Square commercial complex, the project is 1,100 square metres of LED curtain that floats over …
Projects: Star Wars Premiere Red Carpet Walk Flanked By Giant MicroTiles Walls December 16, 2015 by Super User The world premiere in Los Angeles of the long-awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens? had a massive red carpet area, including a walkway with almost 400 of Christie’s MicroTiles displays. Christie’s Coolux Pandoras Box Media Servers powered a variety of displays, including 388 MicroTiles on the walkway walls and 18 Christie LCD panels in other red carpet and photo …
Projects: Vodafone Goes Big On Digital Signage Down Under December 9, 2015 by Super User Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s business case for integrating digital into the store design was a reduction of its dependencies on printed in-store material, and …
Projects: Lululemon Puts Different Twist On Interactive Retail Mirrors December 8, 2015 by Super User We’ve seen, for at least the last couple of years, startups and retailers taking different, often interesting stabs at interactive mirrors in retail environments. They’ve tended to be about the dressing room experience, but the athletic wear retailer Lululemon went in a decidedly different direction with a test installation at its New York flagship store. Instead …
Five Digital Signage Options For Tabletop Interactive Displays December 8, 2015 by Curtis Tilly Touchscreen tables are powerful tools for collaboration, interactivity and engagement. Customers in a retail store can use them to learn more about a product or service. An enterprise can use one to allow multiple users to collaborate on the same projects in one physical space – anything from architectural drawings to seismic imaging. Higher educational institutions …
Projects: 60 Small Panels Make One Big Wall December 3, 2015 by Super User On my way back from Dubai this past weekend I had a layover in Frankfurt, VERY early in the morning. It was enough time to take a 20-minute train into the city and have a look around. I discovered a few things: 1 – If you don’t know the city, you can walk straight out …
Projects: A 1-Day, 108-Panel, Transforming Video Wall For TV Network Upfront December 3, 2015 by Super User I don’t tend to write about temporary projects or plain old video walls, but a video wall put in place for Canadian broadcaster CTV’s upfront (programming showcase for advertisers and media) went very big, and shows what is possible, The Bell Media/CTV’s Upfront in June 2015 used one of the largest video walls ever built in North …
