16:9 Now Has A Companion Podcast – Projects, With Michael Tutton January 27, 2017 by Super User The Sixteen:Nine Podcast has been running long enough now to have 39 episodes and a pretty healthy number of downloads – something like 83,000. Clearly, there’s an audience. So there is now a companion podcast, which is being hosted by a longtime industry friend, Michael Tutton. Another polite Canadian who likes his craft beer. Industry …
New NYC Subway Line Upgrades Interactive Kiosks January 25, 2017 by Super User The Link NYC smart cities screens that have started dotting the sidewalks of Manhattan now have cousins in the subway system – new variations on the MTA On the Go (OTG) kiosks that have been in the system for some time now. There are eight screens in three stations on the loooooooong-awaited new line, which opened …
Projects: Interactive Displays Guide Vera Wang Style Choices January 25, 2017 by Super User This a pretty standard touchscreen application developed for weddings-centric fashion designer Vera Wang, but I like how this video shows the thinking behind the user experience and the use of a set of guiding questions on style to get users more quickly to what interests them. In a truly long distance collaboration, Wang’s team engaged …
Houston Museum Switches On 90-Foot Ticket Counter Video Wall January 18, 2017 by Super User The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a newly renovated box office area topped by a 90-foot wide L-shaped video wall that uses 63 55-inch narrow bezel displays. The displays are divided into seven groups of nine each, running off controllers by group, and the whole wall can be taken over by one high-rez visual, as …
Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada? January 4, 2017 by Super User There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. Or cohesive. …
Projects: Taipei’s Bus Stops Get Smart January 4, 2017 by Super User Much of the buzz about smart city initiatives involving public displays has been around ambitious and expensive standalone info-stations like the 600 or so now operating in New York City, but there’s also stuff that’s quite a bit more pedestrian and easily integrated with existing structures. This is in Taipei – one of some 85 …
NFL’s Vikings Use Transparent OLEDs To Tell History Of Team Uniforms December 23, 2016 by Super User There were lots of “Ooohs” and “Aaaahs” when Planar started showing its transparent OLED displays about a year ago, but also some less enthused “Ohs” when it became apparent a 55-inch screen cost $15,000. So the question has begged since then – are many end-users buying the things? Answer – yes. There probably hasn’t been …
Superdry’s Berlin Flagship Tries On Gesture-based Virtual Dressing Room December 23, 2016 by Super User Via Retail Design Blog https://vimeo.com/195329834 I have mixed feelings about an interactive virtual dressing room-ish display set up at the new Berlin flagship store of apparel retailer Superdry. Put together by London-based SeymourPowell, it’s touted as an interactive “smart mirror” but the display is not a mirror and doesn’t use mirror glass … so, umm, it’s not. …
Watch Moment Factory’s 3D-like Experiential Video Wall At Microsoft’s NYC Flagship December 22, 2016 by Super User Even digital signage nerds miss industry stuff right in front of their eyes. When I was in New York a few weeks ago, I finally had a chance to see the flashy Microsoft store on 5th Avenue, at 53rd, just down from Trump Tower. I was immediately looking inside at the visually dominant back video …
Here’s A Pair Of Amazing LED Curtain Ceilings In Chinese Shopping Malls December 22, 2016 by Super User I’m not quite sure what all these projects are about, or where they are located (other than China), but they look very nice. These are shots supplied by the Shenzhen-based LED manufacture Gtek. While it undoubtedly invests a lot in R&D, they company could stand to invest a couple of bucks in a competent translator – as …
