Red Rocks Update Concessions With Outdoor-Ready Digital Menu Boards October 3, 2018 by Super User The famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre south of Denver resolved a big issue around the concert venue with keeping food and drinks concession signage timely and accurate – resorting to printing and manually replacing static signage at each individual stand. That changed this year as the venue worked with Ping HD, Peerless AV and Samsung to …
Peter Livesey Discusses Esprit Digital’s Rise From The London Underground October 3, 2018 by Super User Anyone with technical chops who uses a subway system to get around would understand that those are seriously challenging environments to put in sensitive display technology – and the UK display technology company Esprit Digital effectively got its start in digital signage doing just that. If you have been in the signage market for a …
Another Subway, Another Wind-blown Hair Model October 2, 2018 by Super User As the saying goes, everything old is new again. In this case, we have the Montreal-based out of home media company Astral doing a campaign in the subway system that updates an idea that first (maybe) surfaced a few years ago in the Stockholm subway. In both cases, a video on a digital screen or …
Moscow Subway Kiosk Demands Riders Give It 30 Squats, For A Free Ticket October 2, 2018 by Super User Today in Stupid People Tricks in Digital Out Of Home we have the people of Moscow being asked to do 30 squats in front of a subway kiosk to then get a free ride. The Moscow metro system, presumably in some sports-themed co-promotion with the Visa credit card people, has set up a camera-based sensor …
New Balance Uses Machine Learning With Digital Poster To ID And Reward NYC Fashionistas October 1, 2018 by Super User The footwear brand New Balance did an interesting machine learning-driven digital signage piece on the streets of New York recently, putting up a screen and sensors that scanned approaching pedestrians and flagging those people who weren’t dressing like everyone else. The “activation” – run for a day during New York Fashion Week – used camera-based …
LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall In Projection-Mapped Dream State This Week October 1, 2018 by Super User That week-long projection-mapping job on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA is now live, and judging from photos, looks amazing. The Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with digital media artist Refik Anadol (hear a recent podcast I did with him) to come up with a data-driven set of visuals that illuminate metallic skin of the …
Bloomingfail: 50 Gorgeous LG OLEDs Largely Hidden By Fixtures At NYC Flagship’s New Pop-Up Shop September 28, 2018 by Super User The 59th Street NYC flagship of Bloomingdale’s is using two walls of LG commercial OLEDs as feature backdrops for its new new rotating pop-up shop, called The Carousel. The idea behind The Carousel @ Bloomingdale’s is to tell “culturally relevant stories driven by guest curators, each with a unique theme and an unexpected mix of products …
SICOM Acquired By Global Payments In $415M Cash Deal September 28, 2018 by Super User SICOM Systems, which provides digital signage, POS and other software solutions into the QSR and fast casual restaurant sect ors, has been acquired by Global Payments, which does payment technology and software solutions. Global, based in Atlanta, paid roughly $415 million in cash for the transaction. The S&P 500-listed company says, in a press release, it …
Stretch LCD Columns Bring Digital Branding To Flagship Jewelry Chain Stores September 26, 2018 by Super User A little ironically, I am on my way to Montreal on an in-and-out speaking thing as this post goes up about work Montreal’s iGotcha Media is doing with Birks, which has been operating luxury jewelry stores in Canada for many, many decades. Birks is using vertical video walls to subtly underscore its brand in flagship stores. …
VIA Launches New Android 8.0, AI-Ready Digital Signage Player September 25, 2018 by Super User Taiwan’s VIA Technologies has done a significant upgrade on its line of ruggedized Android digital signage players, releasing what it calls the VIA ALTA DS 3 Edge AI system. The $400 MSRP units are run off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E Embedded Platform and Android 8.0. Previous versions, while powerful, were several generations back at Android …
