Another Hung Timmie’s Screen – At Old Main Office August 6, 2019 by Super User A reader sent along a couple of photos from a digital menuboard set-up at Tim Hortons. Stuff happens, things hang, but it happens a LOT lately at the Canadian coffee chain, which would have something like 20,000-plus screens in stores across the country. This one is interesting because it is at the site of the …
Free, Open-Source Digital Signage Platform Xibo Gets Snapped August 2, 2019 by Super User The free, open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as something called a snap – a universal Linux app packaging format. Snaps are described as “containerized software packages designed to work across cloud, desktop, and IoT devices. They work natively on the most popular Linux distributions and feature automatic update and rollback functionality, enhanced …
Real-Time AR-Driven Video Wall Engages Shanghai Subway Riders August 1, 2019 by Super User This is a 10-metre (30-ish feet) wide interactive LCD video wall in a Shanghai subway station that is using augmented reality to get passengers excited about a lemon iced tea product. When people stand in front of it, their faces appear on the screen in real time, adorned by lemon filters and a Vita Lemon …
AirDroid Business Touted As Android Device Management Solution For Digital Signage, Kiosks July 31, 2019 by Super User A San Francisco-area company that specializes in mobile device management (MDM) software solutions has announced a business application, AirDroid Business, aimed at use-cases like kiosks and digital signage. “Our research tells us that small and medium businesses cringe at expensive enterprise mobile device management solutions that offer far too many valueless features,” says Anson Shiong, CEO …
NanoLumens’ Joe’ Lloyd On How Integrators View The LCD vs LED Video Wall Decision July 31, 2019 by Super User I sometimes get white papers and research that a vendor hopes I report on or talk about, and then decide against it because the information is hopelessly skewed in favor of that vendor. It’s a bit like those recipe pamphlets that suggest you don’t just add a cup of this, it has to be specifically …
Iconic Philly Department Store Building Adds Gorgeous LED Digital Entry Canopy July 30, 2019 by Super User Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. Now renovated, revitalized, and …
Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why July 29, 2019 by Super User Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at …
Who Wants To Talk? July 25, 2019 by Super User I’ve had three podcast interviews deferred this week for various reasons, so if I have one up next week, it has to happen soon. There’s a running idea list I keep of people I want to talk to, but I am always open to suggestions of new interview subjects. Most typically, the podcasts are with …
Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe July 24, 2019 by Super User I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café.” It will have nitro-infused cold brew coffee, americanos, lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, cortados, macchiatos and all …
Mike Kilian On The Opportunities And Challenges Of Workplace Digital Signage July 24, 2019 by Super User Just about anyone involved on the sales or management side of digital signage these days knows that workplace communications has pretty quickly grown into one of the most active and interesting verticals. With QSRs, the other hot vertical, you’re doing menus and digital promo posters. In the workplace, all kinds of interesting things are possible, …
