Real-Time Virtual Smog Visualizes Air Quality On Warsaw Billboard February 10, 2022 by Super User The Polish digital OOH media firm Screen Network has an interest and knack for blending its campaigns with real-time data from systems and sensors, and has now done that for an information campaign about air quality running on one of its primary LED display locations in central Warsaw. The in-house campaign was built around the …
SF Startup Starts Marketing Its Own Take On Flip-Disc/Split-Flap Displays February 3, 2022 by Super User I don’t know if the modern takes on old-school flip-disc or split-flap sign technology would qualify as digital signage, but I’ve always liked the kinetic, noisy nature of signs that have madly spinning characters that eventually lock in and present a message – whether that’s revised train arrival times at a rail hall or drink …
Commercial Display Sales Almost Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels In US February 2, 2022 by Super User Commercial display and projector sales through U.S. distribution channels are coming back nicely after a big dip brought on by the pandemic, and despite supply chain issues. That’s the word from the Southern California research firm PMA Research (PMA) in the newest version of its all-displays sell-through tracking report – which looks at professional large-format flat …
Japanese 7-Elevens Testing Floating Virtual Screens For Touchless Transactions January 31, 2022 by Super User On the heels of word that a fast casual restaurant chain in Quebec is testing touchless self-service ordering kiosks comes news of 7-Eleven deploying test units of a touchless payment station in some of its Japanese stores. The program involves six different technology companies, with a division of Toshiba guiding the program. From a Japanese …
Nanolumens, Megapixel VR Partner To Optimize LED Video Wall Visuals, Security January 31, 2022 by Super User A big fine pitch LED video wall can be driven by nothing more than the same sorts of media players that push content to flat panel displays, but specialized technology tuned to video walls will tend to do a noticeably better job with the final visuals. Video wall processing was something I didn’t pay much …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Super User The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
DSE Reboot Pushed Back To November; Q4 Time Window Going Forward January 26, 2022 by Super User The industry-specific trade show re-booted as Digital Signage Experience has been pushed back to November 2022 – another event affected by the pandemic that keeps on going. The show was supposed to run in late March in Las Vegas as a new take on the Digital Signage Expo show and conference that ran for some …
Expo 2020 Exhibit Mashes Up Kiosk, AR, Selfies And Projection Mapping January 26, 2022 by Super User The Al Wasl Plaza is one of the signature locations at the Expo 2020 exhibition that was COVID-delayed and now running through March in Dubai. There is a lot of technology all through the Expo site, but a Linkedin post via Christie shows a particularly inventive way to blend interactive kiosks, selfies, AR and projection …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Super User The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
Fun Interactive DOOH Campaign Takes Dark Turn With Passersby January 24, 2022 by Super User The province of Quebec’s auto insurance arm ran an interactive, gesture-driven Digital OOH campaign that started out as fun but then turned very dark about the dangers of jaywalking on city streets. The Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec campaign traces back to 2018 but I missed it first time around. A video has been …
