Projects: Queensland Private School Lights Up Its Wonder Room March 29, 2016 by Super User A private co-ed school in the Brisbane/Gold Coast part of Australia has turned on what it calls the Wonder Room – a specially-kitted classroom that features a five-panel multi-touch video used by both students and teachers. Put together by the Australian firm Prendi, the Wonder Room at All Saints Anglican School has a seamless Multitaction video wall that …
Projects: Etisalat’s Screen-Filled Concept Stores March 24, 2016 by Super User Here’s a video look at what Dallas-based RMG Networks is driving in the retail wireless stores of the UAE-based telecom Etisalat. The wireless carrier has a range of screens around its larger stores, and is expected to kit out roughly 100 with digital signage by the end of this year. The concept stores have interactive …
Projects: The Avenues Mall In Kuwait Adds Multitouch Wayfinding March 23, 2016 by Super User The Avenues mall in Kuwait is one of the largest shopping centres in the MENA region, with a new addition bringing the leasable area past 370,000 square metres. There are more than 400 stores, including a long list of premium retail brands. To help shoppers find their way around the concourses, the mall worked with integrator 2point0 …
Projects: Digital Signage Now Part Of Addictions Treatment Program March 23, 2016 by Super User So much of the content that I see developed for screens in specific vertical markets and use cases follows perfectly acceptable, but highly predictable patterns. Corporate screens get staff messaging. Retail gets sales and promotion. So it’s interesting to see a project – this one in health care – that does something different. A non-profit focused on …
Get The Guy Sitting There To Reach Over And … Oh, Never Mind March 23, 2016 by Super User A regular reader sent in a note from a departure lounge at JFK, where a media company and airport management team decided to put an interactive “experience” screen on a support column. Problem is, if it’s like the scene at most U.S. airports, an optimal experience for passengers is finding a precious seat at a …
DSE 2016 Apex Award Winners List March 18, 2016 by Super User Here are the winners of the Digital Signage Expo APEX Awards for great work in digital signage. Arts, Entertainment & Recreation (16 entries) Gold – Westbury National Show Systems for Winter Festival of Lights – Oakes Hotel, Niagara Falls Ontario Silver – SET for Palais de Tokyo Bronze – BARCO for ShowBiz Cinemas Baytown 10 Business & …
Projects: Aussie Sports Retailer Rebel Accelerates Into Digital March 9, 2016 by Super User Aussie athletic wear retailer Rebel opened a new concept “Accelerate Store” in November 2015 that puts a heavy emphasis on digital and interactive. Rebel’s new 1,100 sq. metre flagship store includes: A 3×3 video wall displaying iconic images of the local area accompanied with audio up the escalators; An interactive 5x3m LED screen that uses …
Projects: 1,000+ GameStops In Europe Roll Out Using IAdea, Signagelive March 9, 2016 by Super User The European wing of GameStop, the world’s largest video gaming retailer, has rolled out a digital signage solution across more than 1,00o stores in five countries using a solution that couples IAdea’s little HTML5 media players and Signagelive’s cross-platform CMS. The solution was put together and is managed by Cedemo, a Monaco-based provider of turnkey digital …
Projects: UK University Gets Allergy Information To Diners Using Interactive Digital Signage March 9, 2016 by Super User Digital menu boards have long been touted as an effective tool for getting calorie counts across to consumers, but a UK university is using screens in its food service area to get some other important information across – Allergy Information. The University of Winchester’s catering department was looking at different ways to deliver the EU-required …
Projects: Abstract LCD Tree At Children’s Museum of Denver February 29, 2016 by Super User You’ve got to like projects that see the designers going completely off the normal playbook on a signature digital display feature for a building. Instead of doing a conventional 3 by 10 video wall, the Children’s Museum of Denver took those 30 displays and did a 20-foot tall, abstract copper and steel tree-like structure made up of Planar …
