Sightings: Interactive product locator in Canadian Tire June 29, 2011 by Super User I have known the guys at Toronto-based Jibestream for more than a year and (disclosure) done some work with them here and there. They do interactive work for public-facing screens and have developed some very nice stuff, like a GIANT interactive wayfiding/directory piece in the concourse of Toronto’s Pearson T1 airport terminal. They have a …
Quebec's Desjardins bank deploys staff-facing digital signage dashboard solution June 29, 2011 by Super UserBanks have long been seen as a primary application for customer-facing digital signage, and indeed a lot of banks are either now installed or in the process of deploying solutions. What’s not seen very often – at least not as far as I know – is staff-facing signage in banks. So the note I got …
Sighting: Oregon college Cascades its interactive digital signage June 23, 2011 by Super User I really like a combined interactive installation put together for the University of Oregon’s Ford Alumni Center in Eugene – as it makes a nice use of shapes and offers a simple but hard to ignore user experience. The install, developed by the interactive design firm Second Story, involves a set of multi-touch LCD …
InfoComm follow-up: Salitek's 16 by 4 video wall June 20, 2011 by Super UserVideo walls, I both heard and saw, are big business at the moment for the AV crowd that packed InfoComm last week. There were a few BIG walls here and there but the one that caught my eye was one from Chicago’s Salitek, which used 64 Orion zero-bezel plasmas in a 16 wide by four …
InfoComm 2011 Wrap-up June 20, 2011 by Super UserBack at world HQ, where it is 20 degrees F cooler and my thoughts extend beyond sources of water and/or beer. Orlando did not seem as hot and humid as it did two years ago, but still … The final event numbers for InfoComm 2011 eclipsed 33,000, so this is a show that is roughly …
Omnishapes introduces hexagonal displays for shaped video walls June 15, 2011 by Super UserChristie and Prysm have a new competitor in the video building blocks space – a German company called Eyevis that has launched a new product called Omnishapes. The company is showing the display blocks for the first time at InfoComm in Orlando. The units are very similar to the LED light engine tile products first …
Digital signage deployments get Zinger of a franchise model June 9, 2011 by Super UserGoogle Alerts popped up a notice on a news release recently about what was described as the “first digital signage franchise providing a “one-vendor” approach for installing and maintaining a digital signage network for small and medium size businesses.” Hmmm. I have seen a few franchise opportunities here and there through the years, offering up …
28-screen cluster to add visual Digital OOH pop in Swiss mall June 6, 2011 by Super UserMalls are such big, cavernous spaces that any digital visual elements are challenged just to be noticed. I have seen some mall installations that look good, but the displays have been too small to be much more than part of the scenery. So it’s smart, I think, to seize the opportunity when it arises in …
Interactive outdoor LED gets Swedes playing Pong with smartphones June 6, 2011 by Super UserThis is pretty clever. McDonald’s in Sweden is running an interactive outdoor program in Stockholm that lets people within eyesight of a big LED billboard in a city square play Pong using their smartphones. The users just need to be log on with their mobile browser to a dedicated, verify their geo-location, and then launch …
Tenants like new building's digital wall so much they're negotiating screen time May 31, 2011 by Super UserHere’s an impressive multimedia video wall installation in the lobby of a Seattle building owned, but apparently not occupied, by Starbucks. The visual effort is great, but read on about the intriguing business impact. “We had to get prospective tenants interested in the building and were looking for something that would grab peoples attention,” explains …
