Full Color Advanced E Ink Digital Sign Testing In Japan February 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Via Good e-Reader … E Ink keeps pushing the envelope on full-color signs – and a new version developed for the Japanese market is touted as low-power digital signage for retail. Good e-Reader has a post up about a pair of Japanese companies showing and testing what’s called an ACeP – or working Advanced Color E-Paper – …
Philly Book Shop Uses Split-Flap Display To Promote Instant-Print Machine February 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a nice use of those old-school split-flap disc displays to promote a rapid book-printing service at an indie book shop in Philadelphia. At Shakespeare & Co.’s new location in Philadelphia’s Center City, the on-demand Espresso Book Machine printer – which can print any paperback on-demand in the time it takes to make a …
Alberto Cáceres On Growing Trison Into Europe’s Largest Digital Signage Solutions Provider February 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes Being in Amsterdam for ISE recently offered a chance to meet up and talk to some people who are squarely focused on business on the other side of the Atlantic. I knew Trison was a major player in digital signage solutions in its home country of Spain, but I didn’t realize the company had a …
London Flagship Cinema Adds Blended Mirror-Screen Heritage Wall February 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a blended mirror wall – video wall in the heart of the recently renovated Odeon cinema, just off London’s busy Leicester Square. The UK solutions provider Beaver Group provided all the hardware, software, installation, content creation and support for the flagship cinema. As well as integration and display of live film times, trailers …
Giant LED Banner Starts Revolving In Famed Kuala Lumpur Mall January 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is what’s touted to be the world’s largest double-sided LED display, a revolving ad banner in a six-storey shopping mall at the base of the famous Petronas twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The banner is a 4.7mm pixel pitch, 19-foot wide by 33.5-foot high NanoLumens screen that rotates 359 degrees (I’m guessing it rotates …
Tire Merchandising Goes Digital At Canadian Nissan Dealers January 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a simple but effective, I think, mash-up of merchandising and digital signage used to promote tire options at Nissan and Infiniti dealers in Canada. Groupe Touchette, the largest Canadian-owned distributor of automobile tires, worked with Montreal solutions shop iGotcha Media on digital signage display stands for nine dealerships, across several provinces. Says a …
16:9 Podcast – From ESLs to Avatars At NRF 2019 January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a special edition of the podcast, which I am pretty much whacking together myself, in the wake of running around the NRF show last week in New York. I had my handy little Tascam recorder with me, so I grabbed some quick interviews with several companies I bumped into, with the idea of …
Chinese Beauty Brand Nu Skin Fills Shenzhen Flagship With Digital Screens January 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. The store has more than 50 screens in a …
Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber …
My Impressions Of NRF 2019 – From The Lens Of Digital Signage January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes Sitting at Newark airport, heading back to East Coast Canada, after the National Retail Federation trade show in New York. I don’t go every year, so I can’t pass on year to year impressions. But I have been several times, including 2 or 3 times in the last five years. Crowd – Very busy Monday. …
