Whole Foods Goes Truly Digital With Signage At Seattle-area 365 Store September 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via GeekWire The tech news site GeekWire has a good piece up about the heavy digital investment made by Whole Foods at a new small format 365 store in Bellevue, Washington. The store has electronic ink price labels, digital weigh scales, interactive digital kiosks to facilitate wine pairings, a touchscreen-driven TeaBot and larger digital displays …
LinkNYC Shuts Off Web Tablets To Stop, Ummm, Problematic Browsing September 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes It should not surprise anyone who’s been on the operations side of digital signage networks that the flashy and very expensive interactive information stations that are replacing payphones around the sidewalks of New York are running into problems with the general public. If you’ve never done operations work, you assume the general public is uniformly well-behaved, and …
Projects: Canada’s Busiest Highways Get Interactive At Travel Centre Stops September 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you’ve even driven the 401 highway that runs up from Detroit through Toronto and almost to Montreal, you’ll have been thankful there’s a set of travel centres that provide the essentials to motoring: gas, coffee and clean restrooms. About 500,000 people a day pull in to these centres across the province. There are 23 …
Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby August 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. The custom content modes, says ESI, include: …
Projects: Malaysian Mega-Mall Updates Its 60+ Screen Network August 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes The giant Utama 1 Shopping Centre in suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is either the 4th or 6th or 7th largest mall on the planet, with 5 million square feet of space and a lot of people coming in the doors each day. The mall operator has been running a mall-wide digital signage network for the last …
Projects: Saudi British Bank Adds 60+ Screens In Riyadh Banking Center August 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Saudi British Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has added a series of displays around its premiere banking center on Tahlia, the city’s high street. There are four video walls around the three-level branch, including a 4 by 3 curved wall. There are also tablets ands regular displays around the branch, intended to create a …
Norwich City FC Gets Shape-Shifting, Pivoting LED Board August 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is clever – a stadium LED board that changes orientation based on a schedule and type of content, and pivots so that it’s viewable from different angles around the grounds. The stadium screen is up at Carrow Road, the home of Norwich City Football Club, which plays in the 2nd tier of pro soccer in England (they …
Projects: Giant, Two-Sided, Pivoting Video Wall Lights Up in Scotland August 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Display Daily I like the multi-purpose thinking behind this huge 32-screen video wall at the University of West Scotland in Paisley, near Glasgow. The UK-based systems integrator Saville was charged with bringing video wall and interactive technology solutions to a new, extended reception area in a campus building. The area is set up for everything from …
How To Skirt City Billboard Bans, Using Projection Mapping August 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting way to get around a city’s billboard advertising laws – use projection and make the windows of rented commercial space the billboard. That’s what Citibank has done at its high profile branch on Faria Lima Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil. São Paulo banned all billboards in 2007 to fight what it saw …
Apple Lights Up 6K LED Wall Today At New 1 WTC Store August 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via TechCrunch … Apple has opened a large store in New York’s new One World Trade Center retail space, and like other recent stores opened by the tech giant, this one features a large direct view LED wall. The store just opened at noon, and there is a big 6K rez wall in one section …
