Refik Anadol Talks About How He Develops His Mind-Blowing Digital Data Sculptures August 29, 2018 by Super User If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he …
Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D August 28, 2018 by Super User We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not …
New NYC Pier 17 Destination’s Atrium Enveloped In Direct-View LED August 28, 2018 by Super User The same company that put together the sync’d LED messaging and ad displays at NYC’s busy Fulton Center has done a similar job at the new Pier 17 at the Seaport District in Lower Manhattan. The technology service provider ANC has installed and now manages a new digital media network that includes more than 2,000 square …
High Street Releases First Free Quarterly Report On What’s Hot (And Not) In Retail Tech August 27, 2018 by Super User The folks over at the boutique retail tech and experience consultancy HighStreet Collective have launched what will be a quarterly report measuring the top 12 technologies that are currently being used in brick and mortar retail – showing what’s getting some traction and what’s just not happening. It shows, not surprisingly, mobile and frictionless payment …
Mega-Mall’s Digital Directories Reduce Search Times From Minutes To Seconds August 27, 2018 by Super User Metrics on digital signage projects aren’t always that easy to find – sometimes, I think, because the results are shrug-worthy – but here’s an example of interactive directories going into a mega-mall and making a tangible difference in how people find their way around. The Mall of America in Minneapolis put in more than 100 …
Just As 4K Mainstreaming, And 8K On Far Horizon, 16K Displays Showing Up August 24, 2018 by Super User If you are still trying to wrap your head around the rationale for using 8K resolution in digital signage, you’ll be tickled pink to learn display manufacturers are starting to show large format 16K product. The Taiwan-based display firm Innolux will be showing off a 100-inch 16K S-UHD display at the end of the month …
Toshiba, Directable Debut All-In-One Smart Signage TVs Using Amazon’s Fire Tech August 23, 2018 by Super User Toshiba now has Amazon’s Fire streaming media player integrated in one of its TV lines, and a small digital signage CMS company is touting an integration that effectively makes it a low-cost “smart” signage display. Reno, NV-based Directable says its platform now runs on the Toshiba Fire TV, and in some sort of tie-up with Best …
Five Pitfalls For Agencies And Integrators In A Commoditizing Digital Signage Marketplace August 23, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface You’re probably aware of the Innovator’s Dilemma. An innovative company corners a market and then becomes inwardly focused, directing efforts towards protecting its existing business model and technology rather than innovating further. The result is a company that becomes vulnerable to the type of upstarts they once were. There …
Start-Up Grabb-It Turns Rideshare Cars Into Rolling Digital OOH Posters August 22, 2018 by Super User A San Francisco start-up called Grabb-It is trying to make a go of a Digital OOH advertising model that puts pico projectors in the back of ride-share cars that beam ads on to a rear passenger window. The ads show up on windows because of a transparent film overlay added to the window. The …
Giant Vertical LED Wall Greets Visitors To Northwestern U’s New Athletic Center August 22, 2018 by Super User The lobby of the newly opened Walter Athletics Center at Northwestern University in Chicago has a giant vertical LED wall, as well as what looks like large tiled (and possibly interactive) flat-panel display walls to the sides. The facility, which opened August 1st, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan at the school’s Evanston …
