Projects: Nordstrom, eBay Testing Interactive Dressing Room Mirrors November 26, 2014 by Dave Haynes Retailer Nordstrom is working with eBay on interactive dressing room mirrors that let shoppers see how they look in real clothes, but then let them look up details or alternatives, and get someone to bring in a larger or smaller size of what’s being tried on. It’s a test starting next week in a Nordstrom in Seattle …
Videos: Samsung’s Smart, Entry-Level Marketing Play November 24, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is smart marketing, with several things in play. Get some use cases happening in the marketplace via a simple, small business contest. Make the winners your product ambassadors. Then put them on an easily shared, familiar medium, instead of relying on trade publications to preach to the converted and jaded. And then time the …
Projects: Four-Storey Tall Herringbone Video Wall In Miami-Area Hotel November 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s 20 Planar Mosaic displays herringboned into a gorgeous, tall video totem at a lux hotel in the Surfside area, near Miami Beach. It’s billed in a press release as the “world’s tallest Planar® Mosaic™ Architectural Video Wall” – a title which (completely respectfully) no one outside of Beaverton, Oregon will view with more than …
Goget Updates Slick Meeting Room Display System November 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes Analytics tells me a lot of site traffic comes in week to week based off a running post I do about meeting room signage options, and one of the companies I list just issued a great looking update. Sweden’s Goget has released Room Display 4, an Android-driven software and hardware platform that looks to do …
Planar Reports Strong Digital Signage Sales Growth November 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes Portland-based specialty display manufacturer Planar Systems, Inc. has reported its year-end financial, showing big year to year growth in sales on digital signage products. For fiscal Q4, total revenue increased 17% year on year to $53.6 million compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013. Revenue was driven by a 42% increase in sales of Digital …
Projects: L.A. Interactive Fan Zone November 10, 2014 by Dave Haynes The home area for the Los Angeles Kings (hockey) and Clippers (hoop) now has a new fan zone set-up aimed at driving fan engagement. The LA Interactive zone launched Saturday night at the Staples Center on the venue’s main concourse. The set-up includes a 6-by-13 foot LED video wall, an 8-by-5 foot Ultra HD video wall, three …
Projects: North America’s 1st Transparent High-Rez LED Wall November 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes Vancouver integrator 10net has lit up what it’s touting as the first permanent install of China’s GWS Technology that’s a mash-up of LED curtains and glass. The install is in the head office of BlueShore Financial in North Vancouver. It uses a 5 mm pixel pitch LED array that instead of having a black block finish in …
Tokyo Scientists Create Touchscreen From Thin Air October 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’m not even going to pretend I understand what the heck is happening here, but it looks pretty intriguing. A team at the University of Tokyo has created a virtual holographic screen that you can see, feel and use as a touch surface. Called HaptoMime, it uses reflective surfaces and infrared sensors that detect fingers. …
Safety Glass Maker Embeds Digital Signs In Train Windows October 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes The whole transparent screens in glass thing is now pretty old news – particularly in things like grocery chiller cabinets and display cases for shoes and purses. But an Israeli company has come up with a different spin – LCDs embedded in the side windows of passenger rail cars. Oran Safety Glass is launching ScreeneX to …
