Finally, An Ikea Store You Can’t Get Lost In May 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you stay away from Ikea because you’re sick of getting lost in the labyrinth design, you’ll like this new Ikea in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong. The store is a pop-up that is testing an ultra-small format until the end of October. You can’t buy flat-pack furniture or shelving units, but you …
BrightSign Adds Cellular Connectivity To Product Line-up May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Dedicated media player maker BrightSign has taken the interesting step of launching a USB cellular modem with carriers and 4G data plans, to sell alongside its little purple boxes. The idea behind BrightSign Mobile is providing a means to connect digital signage networks in venues where on-premise broadband is just flat unavailable, for various reasons, including …
Video: Amazing Transforming Runner Visuals Drive Brand Experience For Hyundai May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an amazing piece of large format creative content done for a video wall at the Hyundai Motorstudio Busan – a design hub in South Korea. Run Forever is described as a “digital media artwork visualizing the vision of Hyundai Motor’s sustainable design and green energy for a clean mobility society. In Run Forever, …
Seoul Urban Shopping Mall Uses Digital Displays To Attract Attention, Draw In Shoppers May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a seriously spruced-up entryway to an urban shopping plaza in Seoul, blending LED and LCD with ambient visuals. The M Plaza shopping mall refurbishment was led by the Spanish creative shop Necsum Trison – with a goal of making the entrance to the shopping center more striking for people on the high street. …
Global Chip Shortage Affecting Availability, Forcing Prices Up, For Digital Signage Hardware May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Just as business has started picking back up for suppliers and solutions providers active in digital signage and pro AV, there is a new global problem to throw off business prospects – more demand for computer chips than supply. We’re collectively in the midst of a worldwide shortage of semiconductors that see supplies limited, shipments …
LG Touts New Tech That Allows Sports Bar Patrons To Hear Their Game Commentary May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes LG has started marketing tech that allows people in busy, noisy places like sports bars to whip out their smartphones and ear buds and listen to things like the live game commentary from a specific display screen, without that audio blasting over the in-house sound system. The concept is not new, but when I have …
Ford Patents Method To Scan DOOH Billboards, Push Versions Of Ads To Dashboard Screens May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Auto manufacturer Ford has patented a method and apparatus for using AI-driven pattern detection to read digital billboards on highways, using the on-board sensors in new vehicles that are there for safety purposes. The concept has vehicles that are scanning the roadway for things like speed limit and other traffic control signs, as well as …
Uniquest Acquires Sagely In Continued Build-out Of Senior Living Vertical May 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes Nashville-based solutions provider Uniguest has acquired a Hawaiian software company, Sagely, to build out its growing vertical focus on senior living communities. Sagely will merge into Touchtown, which is Uniguest’s senior living brand via the earlier acquisition of Touchtown. That company works with more than 1,300 senior living communities – running content that reduces social …
Shoppers Pass Through 20-Meter LED Tunnel To Get Into Flashy New Sydney Food Hall May 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes Photo: Kimberley Low In another sign that direct view LED is mainstreaming as a display option, here is a digital tunnel for a travelator – one of those flat escalator thingies that allows carts and roller bags – that leads up from a parkade into a high-end supermarket that’s opened up in Sydney, Australia. The independent …
DOOH Boards Around Globe Used As Digital Gallery For New David Hockney Artwork May 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes The work of British artist David Hockney is being celebrated this month on digital OOH media displays in the big tourist zones of major global cities. Hockney’s new piece – Remember you cannot look at the sun or death for very long – was created on his iPad while he was stuck like everyone else in quarantine …
