Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe July 24, 2019 by Super User I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café.” It will have nitro-infused cold brew coffee, americanos, lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, cortados, macchiatos and all …
Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal July 23, 2019 by Super User Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays …
Abu Dhabi Court Uses Screens To Make Proceedings Almost Totally Digital July 23, 2019 by Super User This probably doesn’t fall into the digital signage bucket, and is much more of an AV job, but it is an interesting application of screens in a workplace. The Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM) in guess where is entirely digital – with witnesses, lawyers and plaintiffs able to participate in courtroom proceedings from anywhere, …
Quebec’s Lottery Corp Rolling Out Menuboard-Style Screens In Walmart Kiosks July 22, 2019 by Super User Loto-Quebec was an early adopter for digital signage, putting screens in retail sites well more than a decade ago. Much of what the lotteries concern does is a basic set-up in convenience stores, but like other lottery companies they try to create a larger, special purpose presence in shopping malls and heavy foot traffic retail …
Apollo 11 Moonshot Projection-Mapped On Washington Monument July 18, 2019 by Super User We are in the midst of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon – something I am old enough to remember following on an antenna-fed black and white TV in a Wisconsin campground. Technology has improved just a bit in five decades, and the amazing Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in …
Video: Mind-blowing 3D Content At Giant Seoul Duty-Free July 15, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip Gary Kayye for noting thus on LinkedIn … This is some rather amazing three dimensional content on a ceiling-suspended 3.5mm LED install at the Shinsegae duty free store in Gangnam, the famed Seoul shopping district. The content was put together by D’Strict, the Korean company that also did that similarly suspended ceiling over …
Faux Fireworks On Digital Canvases Complement Real Kabooms On July 4th July 15, 2019 by Super User I’d way rather see the real thing, like here, but putting digital fireworks on giant canvases like projection and LED is still an interesting way to celebrate a national holiday. The LA-based design studio StandardVision has produced and published a pair of videos from earlier this month that show July 4th efforts in Los Angeles …
Pop-Up Shop In Flashy UK Mall Uses AI To Highlight Trendiest Togs July 3, 2019 by Super User The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. The online retail public Essential Retail reports: The Trending Store pop-up, which will …
Charlotte Office Tower Lobby Adds Huge, Curved 4K LED Wall July 2, 2019 by Super User This is a newly installed and fired-up direct view LED video wall in the lobby of a new office tower in the financial services-dominant downtown of Charlotte, NC, spotted on Linkedin. The thing is a beast – large enough to deliver 4K visuals even though the pixel pitch is 4.7mm, which is almost 2X the …
A Look Inside McDonald’s New Interactive Screen-Filled Global HQ June 28, 2019 by Super User This is a look inside the new global HQ for McDonald’s, which has come in from the Chicago suburbs to an older building in the West Loop area that was previously home to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. The space looks beautiful, and has numerous experiential interactive displays put together by the Chicago design shop Leviathan. …
