Cranky General Public 1 – Smart Screen 0 January 16, 2019 by Super User I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. So …
Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens January 16, 2019 by Super User When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber …
LG Now Actively Marketing Its Transparent LED Film For Glass Surfaces January 16, 2019 by Super User LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those …
What You’re Getting Wrong About Digital Signage – And What To Do About It January 14, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface You’ve been careful. You’ve studied all the angles. Thought about your audience, quality content, the project’s goals, hardware. You’ve given your digital signage project everything you have. It’s now deployed, left on its own like a child leaving his/her nest to face the world. Ask yourself this. What did you …
Look Ma, No Peripherals – This Touchscreen Embeds Payment Tech In The Display January 11, 2019 by Super User One of the biggest payments tech companies around has found a display provider to partner on interactive kiosks that embed payment capabilities in the actual screen, instead of beside it or virtually using phones. France’s Ingenico Group, which describes itself as the global leader in seamless payment, will work with German kiosk solution provider Pyramid …
New Hotel At ISE Venue To Be Projection-Mapped During Show January 10, 2019 by Super User The brand new nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel, which is adjacent to the site of next month’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show, will be projection-mapped each day during the event. Specially-created content will be projected onto the 25-storey, 650-room nhow Amsterdam RAI from 3 to 8 pm each day throughout ISE week. The projection mapping …
A Huge 260-Screen OLED Waterfall Scene Greets LG’s CES 2019 Stand Visitors January 10, 2019 by Super User Last year, CES visitors to LG’s stand walked along an OLED screen canyon. This year, there’s an OLED waterfall … kinda sorta. LG’s sprawling CES booth, by the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center, has 260 OLEDs in a dramatic, wavy waterfalls-like set-up. The OLED Falls exhibit has 76 concave, 72 convex and 112 flat …
Restaurant Tech Co Debuts Screen-Driven Order Pick-Up Podiums January 10, 2019 by Super User Trends in fast casual and QSR restaurants are having an interesting impact on digital signage usage in that sector, and new technology coming out of San Francisco company is a great example of a company adapting to a changing landscape. eatsa, which is somehow both a restaurant brand and technology provider, has announced the Spotlight …
Nanolumens CEO Rick Cope Has Left Company He Founded January 10, 2019 by Super User Nanolumens founder Rick Cope has left the company he founded and ran for several years, to pursue (as the saying goes) other interests. The colorful former US Marine built the Atlanta-area company up from the idea stage – marketing indoor LED displays that were skinny, light and flexible to a pro AV industry that had …
What Research Says Is Working With Digital Signage In Retail Banking January 9, 2019 by Super User This week we look at how the financial services industry is using digital signage in branches, and more to the point, what works and why. Angela Vanderburg is the Digital Practice Lead for Consumer Banking and Retail Financial Services for Q Division, the retail-focused digital strategy consultancy that was launched by STRATACACHE. She’s a shameless …
