Armodilo Rethinks Retail Tablet Enclosures March 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Tablet stand and enclosure manufacturer Armodilo Display Solutions will be rolling a slick new wall-mounted enclosure for tablets this spring that pretty dramatically rethinks the idea of sticking an iPad or other tab in a protective frame. The new set-up, called LITE, is based on Armodilo’s AURA kiosk design. It shifts the set-up to a …
Projects: Mall Displays Of The Future, Or Gimmick? March 25, 2015 by Dave Haynes US shopping mall operator Westfield put a back to back bank of big-ass LCD touch displays in one of its big malls, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, about a year ago. I missed the press and only stumbled across the set-up when it was written up as part of a piece in Ad …
Projects: Video Walls As Retail Store Banners For Gap March 23, 2015 by Dave Haynes Yorkdale is by most measures the top shopping mall in Canada. There are larger footprint ones, and ones that get more people through the doors. But the mall along Toronto’s teeming 401 highway is where most or all of the big retail brands put in a splashy flagship store. You see a lot of digital, …
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 …
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 …
NRF: Is Memomi’s Digital Mirror The Fairest Of Them All January 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes I missed this in the two days I spent wandering the aisles of NRF, which is a shame because I’m intrigued by how it works. It’s billed as the world’s first digital mirror, which is a bit of a reach given eBay and The Big Space both have digital mirror things (admitted doing different stuff) …
Digital Signage As Crowd Control? December 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’ve spent lots of time meeting with shopping mall operators talking about the wide variety of uses for digital signage around their facilities, but I never thought of crowd disbursement as one of them. This is what was on the screen at the Mall of America, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, at the height of a protest …
Projects: Beverly Hills Porsche Dealer Gets Social In Showroom December 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes LA-based Enplug – which runs screens solutions built around social media – put together a program earlier this year for Beverly Hills Porsche, which was looking for a way to better engage with its customers on social media, from inside the showroom. They’d been using print, and not surprisingly finding it wasn’t working so hot. …
