Projects: Austrian Mall Converts To Digital Wayfinding, Adds NFC March 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes ShoppingCity Seiersberg, one of the largest shopping malls in Austria, has installed 12 touchscreen wayfinding kiosk units that are helping daily crowds find their way around the big footprint venue. The set-up also builds in NFC, so visitors can tap phones and generate loyalty rewards and grab promo offers. The mall’s 200 shops cover more than 915,000 sq ft …
Projects: LA LA LAND in LA LA Land March 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes Me and the boss took a side trip to Los Angeles several days ahead of DSE, for a few reasons: Get the f#ck out of the cold and snow; Take some meetings; Let her see LA for the 1st time. We did some obligatory sightseeing, including the freak show sidewalk scene in Hollywood, where we …
DSE 2015 Award Winners List March 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s all the winners from the Digital Signage Expo install and creative awards held Thursday in Las Vegas … In the Apex install awards, there were about 80 entrants and 60 in content (which I think is kind of feeble on the part of integrators and other vendors – awards are great marketing tools, so …
Projects: WTF In Denver February 25, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is a really nice digital install at a new Denver restaurant called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, or WTF for short. It’s just up the block from the funky old warehouse offices of Four Winds Interactive, which put the project together for the owners. FWI CEO took me down there Tuesday to grab a bite and …
Projects: Tablet Choir Does Beethoven’s Ode To Joy February 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes And here we have 300 tablets all synced together, with Android avatars, singing Beethoven’s Ode To Joy as part of a Google Japan promotion. Extroverts at a shopping mall in Japan, where this was installed this week, got a T-shirt if they tried conducting the choir, via a gesture sensor. Digital signage? Well, sorta, given …
Projects: Talking Flat Ladies Get Hotel Jobs In Japan February 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes It looks like virtual mannequins have escaped from airport queues and hospital waiting rooms and found new work in hotels – or at least one opening this summer in Japan. A concept hotel at a theme park (surprise!) will feature robots the owners say will eventually do 90% of the work around the place. It will …
Projects: Chico’s In-Store Digital Network Runs On Chromeboxes February 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes You know that argument you hear from vendors, that serious end-users with a lot of scale will never go with free software solutions and entry-level hardware? It’s probably true in a lot of cases, but not always. And I think things are shifting, in part because of who is now working with free. As in …
Projects: Helsinki’s Hartwall Arena Adds Screens In Refurb February 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Harwall Arena in Finland recently went through a modernization program that included 240 new displays located around the facility, all intended to raise the fan experience. The screens were put in and are now managed by local solutions partner iConnect, using ComQi’s EnGage platform on 60 media players. The displays include several video walls, screens located …
Projects: TravelCenters’ Screens Integrated With Back-End Data February 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes I’m not what you’d call enthusiastic about the approach the client has taken to content design here – too much, too little, where to start – but I do like back-end integration that Burlington, ON-based ADFLOW Networks has put together for TravelCenters of America. The digital signage CMS company has integrated its platform with the enterprise …
Is Projection Mapping Digital Signage? Nope. February 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes I saw a few tweets last night after the Katy Perry lip sync medley halftime at the Super Bowl gushing about how cool the digital signage was at the big game. https://twitter.com/route802/status/562072660897579008 Well … yes, the projection mapping was kinda sorta cool. Seen way better at this game. But yeah, still … However, it was not digital signage. That …
