Big LED Walls, Giant LCDs Part Of New H&M Flagship In Kuwaiti Mall That Already Had 5 H&Ms October 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes Many things seem to be way over the top, so to speak, when done on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf. Consider news that the Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M opened on Sept. 12th its largest store on the planet in a Kuwait mall that already had five H&M stores. The Kuwaiti flagship store is …
E Ink Starting To Show New Filter-Free Full Color Displays Aimed At Digital Signage Market October 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based E Ink will be at the CEATAC trade show in Japan mid-month show off its new Advanced Color ePaper – call ACeP – which does full color at every pixel without the use of a color filter array, something used in its previous large format color displays. The company says: ACeP achieves a full …
RMG Acquired By Its Chairman And A Private Equity Firm; Goes Back To Being Private Company October 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes The winding road that has characterized the story of RMG Networks in the last 10 years has added another turn with news that the Dallas-based digital signage solutions company has been acquired and taken off the stock market, converted to a privately-held entity. The transaction being announced Thursday was led by Austin, TX-based Virgo Capital, …
Interactive Wall, Touted As World’s Largest, Switches On At Riyadh Rail Hub October 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is what’s being billed as the largest interactive video wall on the planet – set in a rail hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was put together for the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR) by the huge Spanish integrator Trison. The job required a curved interactive screen that would be 37 meters wide and 1.2 meters …
Red Rocks Update Concessions With Outdoor-Ready Digital Menu Boards October 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To …
Moscow Subway Kiosk Demands Riders Give It 30 Squats, For A Free Ticket October 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
