Projects: Me To We’s First Bricks & Mortar Store Packs In A Lot Of Digital July 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes Most small footprint retail spaces tend to have little or no digital inside its doors, but a new socially-conscious store in Toronto’s Eaton Center goes big with digital display to tell its store and drive interest and reactions. The just opened Me To We store was developed is the first bricks and mortar presence for …
16:9 Podcast Series, John Wang, IAdea July 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, John Wang, the CEO of Taipei-based IAdea, talks about the roots of his company, which primarily makes commercial-grade media players and all-in-one devices for the digital signage market. He recalls starting up the business right out of school in Taiwan, and unfortunately timing that startup right when the first Internet bubble burst. Wang …
Has Samsung End Of Life’d Its Short-Lived Transparent OLEDs? July 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you were at InfoComm last month, one thing you may have noticed oddly AWOL was the transparent OLED technology the company showed earlier in the year at ISE in Amsterdam, and also at Digital Signage Expo. I heard quietly at InfoComm from a Samsung contact that OLED, in Samsung’s view, wasn’t ready for the …
The Future Of Digital Signage Is Built-In July 25, 2016 by Mike Kilian Guest Post: Sean Levy, MediaSignage In some ways, digital signage grew up without going through puberty. This space has certainly experienced the growing pains of a nascent industry, but many of the predicted growth spikes to the industry failed to play out the way some big observers suggested it would. Instead, we have seen a market …
US Political Conventions Go Big On Digital And Social July 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lights go up on the US Democratic National Convention in Philly today, a few days after the rival Republicans wrapped up their own national convention. I’ll reserve comment on the politics, because as a Canadian I get to watch the very curious goings-on from the bleachers. I said to my wife one night that …
Projects: Virtual X-Ray Scans Mazda 3 At Trade Show July 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes A Colombian company came up with a very clever idea for showing what’s under the hood, and more, of a new Mazda 3, for a marketing show in Bogota. Vinilo Lab put a 65-inch display panel on a track that slid along the front of the car display, creating the effect that the monitor was scanning …
Boston Gets First E-Paper Wayfinding Sign July 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes Boston’s city hall plaza has what is being touted as the first e-paper wayfinding sign in the United States – a 32-inch electronic paper display that is daylight-readable and powered by solar. The ruggedized sign, mounted in a totem on the plaza, is aimed at providing visitors with information on local events and help residents …
Projects: Giant Interactive Wall Turns On At Smithsonian’s Flight Hall July 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is a massive new interactive video wall at the newly renovated Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It’s a 16- by 12-foot interactive media wall that prompts visitors to explore, collect, and save their favourite objects from the museum’s collection, using the museum mobile app. The project was put together …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Pagnan, RP Visuals July 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. In this conversation, done at last month’s InfoComm trade show in Las Vegas, Randy talks about the origins of his company …
Projects: True Religion Goes Digital On Carnaby Street July 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes The US denim jeans brand True Religion has opened a new small footprint, digital-heavy store concept on London’s Carnaby Street. The 2,500 sq ft shop, which opened in June, has a concept focused around a denim bar at the front of the shop, and uses digital screens that will showcase how the products are made, an interactive …
