Twin Giant LED Rings Are Centerpieces Of Chase Flagship On NYC’s Madison Avenue December 17, 2019 by Super User I was in NYC for a couple of days late last week, and on Friday had a big walk around to check out some installations I’d previously only seen in text and photos. A big target visit was the new Chase flagship branch at 390 Madison Avenue, which has a custom LED system designed and integrated …
Has The NYC Nike House Of Innovation Done A Tech Reset After Only A Year? December 17, 2019 by Super User Back in January, when I was in NYC for the NRF retail tech show, I went with a friend to the Nike House Of Innovation store on Fifth Avenue. It was very whiz-bangy in terms of lots of screens, off the wall content and a giant sonic tower thingie … which did, ummm, something. I …
Samsung’s microLED The Wall Finds Way Into NYC Boardroom December 16, 2019 by Super User Samsung’s The Wall has been showing up at trade shows for a couple of years now, and while there’s been talk of high net worth individuals and business customers buying and installing the big microLED video walls, I’d not seen one in the wild. Until last week. Samsung did a tech media tour last week …
Canada’s Cineplex Acquired By UK-based Cineworld December 16, 2019 by Super User The Canadian entertainment giant Cineplex, which has a very active digital signage and digital OOH business unit, has a tentative deal to be acquired by UK-based Cineworld Group. With more than 11,200 screens around the globe (including a bunch of them as Regal Cinemas in the US), the proposed transaction would create one of the …
ISE Outlines Professional Development Program For Amsterdam 2020 December 11, 2019 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is now, gulp, just two months out, and the giant AV trade show has outlined its education program for its swan song in Amsterdam. ISE says its professional development program will feature more than 200 experts from a variety of disciplines and subject areas across five days of keynotes, conferences, masterclasses, workshops …
Psycho Bunny Makes Screens Centerpieces Of Its Bricks And Mortar Stores December 11, 2019 by Super User It is hard to not be drawn, oddly, to a retailer that comes up with the moniker Psycho Bunny. The sports apparel brand has a handful of bricks and mortar stores in high profile locations, and has made large digital signage displays a key element in the shops. Working with AEdifica, an architecture and design …
Who Needs Departures And Track Assignments When You Can Get IP Addresses? December 11, 2019 by Super User UPDATE – The service provider says this screen was intentional and the board was being tested, with a launch day set for Dec. 18. (see comments below) This is bad on an epic level – a big direct view LED in the main rail station in Rotterdam. The big screen (photo provided by a …
Lee Horgan On Uniguest’s Lobby-To-Guest-Room View On Hospitality Digital Signage December 11, 2019 by Super User More and more companies involved on the sell and service side of digital signage seem to be picking out business verticals and getting very focused on them. It’s a tactic that can work very well if that company already has a big history and footprint in a vertical, and that’s certainly the case with Uniguest. …
Mad Systems Gets Patent Approval For AI-driven Personalized Messaging December 9, 2019 by Super User The Orange County, CA-based AV solutions firm Mad Systems has been granted a U.S. patent for systems and methods that provide location-centric information about registered users based on facial recognition technology. The system, called LookingGlass Concierge, “uses facial recognition to identify and locate people. It then logs each member into a group either using pre-entry …
Giant LED Facade Frames Entry To New Louis Vuitton Airport Store December 9, 2019 by Super User This is a digital facade that attracts and greets shoppers at a new Louis Vuitton store in a terminal at De Gaulle Airport in Paris. The direct view LED cabinets frame a large entryway and sit below the store header and logo. The shop opened in November at Terminal 2AC. I couldn’t embed a video, …
