A digital mirror to get pretty, in butt-ugly packaging August 30, 2010 by Super UserI am not a regular reader of PremiumBeautyNews (shocking, I know), but stumbled on this piece about the French hypermarket retailer Carrefour testing an interactive shelf-edge application in two of its new Carrefour Planet concept stores. Thanks to the electronic mirror, consumers just need the swipe of a make-up product barcode, to virtually “try on” …
Sightings: Using audience analytics to drive restaurant traffic August 26, 2010 by Super UserTechCrunch flagged a demo of digital signage by Japanese telecom giant NTT that shows some different possibilities for biometrics as they relate to screens. Just about all the focus has been on audience counting, but this demo shows the commercial approach of analyzing how many people are looking at an ad for a nearby restaurant, …
New, tiny fanless unit capable of serious HD digital signage August 24, 2010 by Super UserThe Swiss seem to make very nice little digital signage boxes. Spinetix has had a very nice little solid state box and platform on the market for at least a couple of years, and now we the technology firm NOXEL AG – also from Switzerland – releasing what appears to be a great little digital …
Optrex joins the stre-e-e-tched screen contest August 20, 2010 by Super UserAnother ultra-wide panel for digital signage is now on the market – this one from Optrex – a Japanese company that has a large office in the Detroit area. Display Blog reports the elegantly-named T-55604D192J-LW-A-AAN by Optrex is a 19.2-inch (48.8-cm) LED-backlit LCD with a 16:3 aspect ratio. The pixel format is 1920×360. Brightness is …
Suspicions confirmed: you're not getting the bandwidth you pay for August 18, 2010 by Super UserThis will shock you to your core – there’s hard evidence that telecoms and cablecos are stretching the truth about their service delivery. Ok, it’s actually more of a “Well, no kidding” moment. Lifehacker posted this morning about the US Federal Communications Commission’s new report on broadband performance. The focus of the technical paper is …
Missed marketing opportunity? August 17, 2010 by Super UserThe Canadian burger chain A&W is testing some new concept stores aimed at urban 25-40 year olds in major cities – featured around self-serve ordering stations. The first one, reports Marketing, is now open in Vancouver. Knowing what’s coming in from tests on digital menu boards in QSRs, as in crazy-good sales lifts, all that …
If Content is King, Power is God August 11, 2010 by Super UserWalmart Smart Network endcap. No power or dead unit. It happens. But it really can’t in retail or anywhere else. Pic from reader
Japanese vending machines use video analytics to make drink recommendations August 10, 2010 by Super UserIf I ever squirted out of the rail car at a stop on the JR East transport system in Japan, I doubt anything would make me feel finer than a cold bottle of Pocari Sweat. Yes, evidently the Japanese have a drink called Sweat – presumably some sort of sports drink that maybe wouldn’t run …
NASCAR Hall of Fame fan board lit up with 250-plus of Christie's MicroTiles August 5, 2010 by Super User(Disclosure: I do some writing for Christie, and prepared a case study on this project) One of the first BIG projects to come along for Christie Digital’s much-covered, much-praised MicroTiles technology is a signature installation at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC. The facility opened this spring and a focal point is a …
NEC joins the stretched screen crowd August 5, 2010 by Super UserSomeone will correct me, undoubtedly, but as far as I know LG was the first display manufacturer to come out with a monitor that looked like someone took a circular saw to it and cut it in two. They called it a stretch monitor and it gained a lot of attention in the marketplace maybe …
