Projects: Raspberry Pi Drives Dry Cleaner Sign Network March 14, 2014 by Dave Haynes Raspberry Pie is probably bad news for people in the business of stain removal, but Raspberry Pi appears to be working just fine. Here’s a dry cleaner chain in Richmond, Virginia that’s using the low-cost micro PCs and running Rise Vision’s free CMS. The signs are pretty much just emulating the company website and embedding …
DSA Announces Awards Of Excellence, 2nd Awards In Four Months March 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Digital Screenmedia Association has pushed out a news release announcing the winners of its 2014 Awards Of Excellence. These are not the same awards as the ones – called the DSA Crown Awards – that the DSA handed out a little over four months ago in New York, ahead of what’s now called CEW. This …
Projects: Oscars Red Carpet Stretches All The Way To US Malls March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes Screenfeed has long been known for curating and very nicely presenting news, data, images and video in automated feeds for digital signage networks, but it added an interesting new wrinkle the other night when it live-streamed video from the Academy Awards red carpet last Sunday. The live stream took over large digital screens placed in several …
Projects: Transparent Fridge Display Beckons Quebecois Beer Lovers February 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes I like the notion of transparent LCDs for product promotion in stores, but have not seen many examples off trade show floors, so it’s great to see a modest rollout of these with a major brand. Molson Coors Brewing is working with Montreal-based Groupe VIVA to put transparent beer fridges in a series of Quebec c-stores …
Ikea Turns One Billboard Into Three With Lighting Trick February 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes From Germany: Not digital, but an interesting approach to a space problem for an analog sign. Plays into Ikea’s whole space saving thing. More detail on Adweek
Projects: Adidas Gets Experiential With New HomeCourt Concept Stores February 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes The German athletic brand adidas has opened the doors of its new HomeCourt retail concept store in Beijing, with plans to open a couple dozen of them around the world this year. “Our new retail concept HomeCourt offers a consumer experience unlike any that adidas fans have enjoyed before. We have created a store where …
Projects: GTE Financial’s Tampa Showcase Branch February 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Florida financial cooperative GTE Financial has redesigned a main location in downtown Tampa that includes a giant, curved indoor LED banner and pile of other tech. “The new space layout is designed to be more open, eliminate teller lines, and offer visitors an engaging and interactive retail-like experience,” says Mandy Zurbrick, VP of Marketing …
Projects: Creighton University’s Finance Lab February 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska has created a real-world trading environment, called the Finance Lab, that’s outfitted with a 42-foot premium LED ticker display, a 6-zone world clock, and three 110-inch video walls, one of them fully interactive. The lab was pulled together by solutions provider Rise Display, based in Shawnee Mission, KS. “Business schools recognize that …
Well Of Course People Buy More Beer When They Get Weather Reports February 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a reader at a convenience store in Gatineau, Quebec (near Ottawa). Anheuser-Busch InBev has had these in Canada for a few years now, but I made the silly assumption they were put in place to move boxes of beer. Apparently the plan is also to give shoppers sports score and tell tell them what …
What A Digital Sign At 10 Feet Is Good For … February 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes New restaurant at Toronto Pearson Airport. All it takes is common sense, folks.
