Redeveloping JFK T4 Adds Big Range Of Useful Screens To Guide, Inform Passengers March 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The redeveloping Terminal 4 at New York’s JFK Airport has switched on some of the new digital display components designed to improve passenger experiences, and the focus appears to be heavily, and happily, on helping travellers navigate the process and place. There are a pair of 285-foot continuous LED video walls, and another 120-foot wall, …
Networking Giant Ubiquiti Has Digital Signage As An Add-On Solution March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen, though the years, all kinds of companies of varying sizes and product focuses find their way into digital signage – in part because it is relatively easy to bolt on a simple media play-out software application to broader solutions and platforms. A good example of that is the video collaboration business, with companies …
Coca-Cola Takes Over NYC Retail Space For Digitally-Driven SPICED Launch March 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes SO MANY building facades have been virtually altered using CGI, to generate social media shares, that it almost seems unusual to come across a project that looks CGI’d … but is real. Coca-Cola launched a SPICED version of its soda with an immersive, digitally-driven experience using a rented retail space on Lafayette Street in New …
Only Things Standing After Twister Takes Out Indiana Taco Bell Are Menu Display Totems And Kiosks March 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a compelling argument for why the engineering design for outdoor digital displays is about much more than just the brightness of the screen and the ability to exhaust built-up heat. That stuff is super-important, but so are things like how the enclosure is fixed to the ground. Just about the ONLY Thing left standing …
Sliding X Ray-like Screen Shows What’s Under Metal Skin Of Dubai Police SUV March 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes The concept is not new, but this is a good example of how a display can be married with a sliding mechanism to create an interesting product demo. It is one of a range of products marketed by Lazulite, a Dubai tech company that does a lot of work with events and product launches. This …
Iconic Boston Sports Bar Upgrades With 32 Screens For Diehard Fans March 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes Screens in sports bars are pretty much as essential as draft beer taps, but an iconic bar in downtown Boston REALLY went to town in screens in a recent renovation – with Scores putting in 32 around its venue. The screens range in dimension from 55 up to 98 inches, and are up there for …
Hisense Latest Display Maker To Develop, Market Own Commercial Digital Signage CMS March 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes China’s Hisense is the latest flat panel display manufacturer to develop and start marketing its own digital signage software platform, announcing a CMS and remote device management solution called VisionInfo. The software is described by Hisense as cloud-based, flexible, cost-effective, and very scalable. VisionInfo includes a comprehensive CMS solution and advanced remote display management features. …
Userful Launches Data Dashboards Solution Aimed At Health Care Environments March 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Health care is a big, largely untapped vertical market for digital signage technology. While things like screens in waiting rooms and common areas are nice, and donor recognition video walls are effective thank yous, the real action is likely in providing solutions that enable situational awareness around active patient care areas. Though health records may …
Interesting “LED Shelf Frame” Draws Eyes To A Brand’s Merchandised Shelf March 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes I stumbled across a couple of photos of what is called an LED shelf frame, and while the name and visuals max out what I know, I think it is interesting. The “frame” is marketed by a Romanian company, POS Media Romania, that specializes in on-premise retail media. The company site doesn’t say what it …
New Denver-area McDonald’s Doesn’t Even Have Digital Menu Boards, Just Self-Order Kiosks February 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting counter-argument to the idea that dynamic or even surge pricing increases the relevance and need for digital menu displays in QSR – a QSR giant that’s removed in-store menu displays, relying instead of self-service ordering kiosks. This is from Craig Keefner, who runs the Kiosk Manufacturer Association and writes all the time …
