Get The Guy Sitting There To Reach Over And … Oh, Never Mind March 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Projects: Airport Kiosks Help Travelers Learn CPR Skills To BeeGees Tune February 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is one of the more unusual, and clever stabs at a public information kiosk I’ve seen come on the market – a CPR skill-testing device that gets airport travellers pushing on a torso to the beat of Stayin’ Alive. The American Heart Association’s Hands-Only CPR campaign features interactive training kiosks at six major US airports. Says a news …
Projects: PATTISON Onestop Adds New Video Wall For 280K Daily Commuters February 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s what a mature Digital OOH ad network looks like: 350 screens covering 97% of the potential area. That’s what PATTISON Onestop is at after more than a decade in Toronto’s subway system – with screens on platforms and in the stations. The media company has now turned on a nine-unit video wall at Union Station, the …
Projects: Samsung Opens Digitally-Rich, Product-Less Manhattan Flagship Store February 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Rob Gorrie for flagging this via LinkedIn … Here’s an interesting take by Samsung on flagship store design – a new one that doesn’t actually sell stock any product. Called Samsung 837, the store opens today at 837 Washington Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Reports Fast Company: Instead of endless product shelves, the …
Projects: Giant 36-Screen Video Wall In New Shanghai Business District February 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is a massive video wall built in the new Hongqiao Central Business District in Shanghai, China. The 36 screens are being driven by IAdea’s recently announced AnyTile solution – which uses something it calls Distributed Graphics Architecture to push 36 screens with a total of 18K x 4K resolution. The idea behind AnyTiles is, …
