Projects: Virtual Coloring Books On Streets Of Sydney And Melbourne September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes If were walking a busy downtown street, would you stop at a digital poster to do some virtual coloring? That was the premise and attraction of a relaunch campaign in Australia last month for a mineral water/juice product that’s part of the Coca-Cola family. The media firm JCDecaux, Ansible, UM, Saatchi & Saatchi NZ and …
Projects: Giant Digital “StoryWall” Fills Suburban LA Cinema September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes Cinema lobbies continue to one of the hotter environments for ambitious, big budget signature displays – with the latest evidence of that a 96-panel “StoryWall” at the ArcLight Cinemas in Sherman Oaks, California. The beast is about 50-feet wide and 15-feet high, and runs a matrix of movie posters or full-wide visuals about a specific …
Key Copy Kiosk Shows What Much Interactive Retail Should Really Be About September 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a great example of an interactive screen solution, coupled with a machine, that goes to the heart of what any of this “customer engagement” stuff should be about – making something faster, better and easier for consumers. In this case, it’s a kiosk that can copy a house, car or other key in a …
Lock Down Your Tablet Kiosk Screens With These 5 Easy Tips September 15, 2016 by Ryan Cahoy Guest Post: Jon Sproule, Armodilo Display Solutions This blog had a post up recently that showed how easy it can be for pranksters to interfere with your carefully considered tablet kiosk deployment. We think about and protect tablet-powered kiosks all day long, but on the hardware side. It’s not a surprise when security gets overlooked on the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Luka Birsa, Visionect September 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week, I’m speaking with Luka Birsa, the CTO and co-founder of Visionect, a Slovenian tech company focused on solutions that use Electronic Ink. If you’ve got a Kindle or Kobo e-reader, think of that display but used instead for updated bus schedules at stops, or for telling people whether a meeting room is booked …
E-Paper Hits The Road On German 18-Wheeler Billboards September 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you drive busy highways, you’ve no doubt seen your share of the back doors of 18-wheel transport trucks. So what if that space was used for location-specific advertising and traffic tips? That’s the idea behind RoadAds interactive, a German company that is, in effect, putting eight giant Kindles on the back doors of a …
Connected Screen Demo Shows How Interactive Digital Signs Can Be Contactless Payment Terminals September 10, 2016 by Dave Haynes The transaction processing company Ingenico is demonstrating a slick “connected screen” concept at the Toronto International Film Festival that allows people to just wave their Visa credit card at an LCD screen to make a donation. This is the first North American demonstration of a concept that’s been shown in Europe – enabling people who …
LG Creates Massive, Genuinely Immersive OLED Display Tunnel September 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes The IFA consumer electronics show that’s been running the last few days in Berlin includes a mind-wobbling welcome tunnel to the LG booth, made up of 216 55-inch curved OLED panels. The OLED tunnel is five metres tall, 7.4 metres wide and 15 metres long, and the pixel count goes past half a billion. The content varies …
Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go September 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, …
LG Adds Kiwi Firm To List Of Signage Firms Supporting Its Smart WebOS Displays September 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via ComputerWorld NZ The Auckland, NZ-based firm Labyrinth Solutions has developed a version of its Contrego digital signage CMS to run on LG’s WebOS-driven commercial digital signage panels. Labyrinth says the new System on Chip (SoC) media player, running Contegro, will do all the regular stuff, but will also do advanced digital signage functions like touch. “We are currently working …
