NBA Fan Zone Virtual Bobble Heads Find Their Way To OKC Highway Billboard December 1, 2016 by Super User The interactive touchscreen thing at sports venues is not new, but there’s a few things Philly-based MVP Interactive did with Cox Communications and the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder that are kinda cool: Fans make their personal, albeit virtual bobbleheads; A sensor called the vert jump mat measured how high fans can jump (vertical leap is kind of important …
Projects: Mall Of America Adds Slim Digital Wayfinders November 30, 2016 by Super User Here’s a slightly different take on shopping mall wayfinding: smaller screens set at angles, instead of the jumbo vertical screens you mostly see in malls these days. This is at the Mall of America in Minneapolis – which I believe remains the largest shopping mall in the U.S. – and there are six of these, …
Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy November 30, 2016 by Super User A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will …
Projects: Big Digital Experiences Now Greet Visitors To US Bank’s LA Skyline Deck November 30, 2016 by Super User You can go up to the 69th and 70th floors of the US Bank Tower in LA to get a 360-degree view of that city, looking west to the beaches and ocean and the mountains beyond the city’s basin. To get up there, you first stop at the 54th floor, and that’s where a new …
Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program November 30, 2016 by Super User Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. There are some 100 …
Projects: UK Butcher Orders Up Menu Boards November 30, 2016 by Super User Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. Tariq Halal Meats is one of the larger Halal meat specialists in the UK and Europe, and has started converting its signs behind the counter …
Toronto’s Main Airport Embeds Departures Screens In Giant Nature Sculpture November 28, 2016 by Super User It’s a bit weird that while I am in and out of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport a lot, it’s rare that I fly within Canada and see the domestic side of Terminal 1 – which now has a huge flower-like sculpture that doubles as departures screens. I’d vaguely heard about this thing, but it wasn’t …
Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No November 23, 2016 by Super User Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump a tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. But BP thinks differently, and has started testing an interactive gas pump called Miles, …
How About A Huge, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall … In Your Dining Room? November 21, 2016 by Super User This is in somebody’s house. Yeah. It’s a 21 foot wide wide by 11 foot tall LED video wall made up of 192 1.6mm Planar DirectLight LED modules, and is used as video art and, I guess, to play Dark Souls III and watch Duck Dynasty. The home is in Northern California and was installed with this …
Projects: New NYC Museum Exhibit Goes Heavy On Digital To Tell City’s Story November 17, 2016 by Super User Via Untapped Cities There is a ton of really well executed tech in a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, which opens tomorrow in guess where. The digital side of the exhibit was put together by Local Projects, which among other jobs did the experiential digital for the 9-11 …
