Scala Starts Making And Marketing Branded Digital Signage Media Players November 29, 2017 by Super User Scala has started marketing a pair of branded, Windows 10-driven digital signage players as part of the company’s solution offer. While many or most digital signage CMS companies have their go-to boxes, not that many settle on and brand a specific device or set of devices as their own. There appear to be two versions of …
Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift November 29, 2017 by Super User A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick …
Why Digital Signage At Scale Needs Enterprise Features November 29, 2017 by Super User Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Even though digital signage can be as simple as a laptop playing a PowerPoint slideshow hooked up to a display, it’s really designed to reach large audiences. Some organizations spread out over multiple floors, multiple buildings or even multiple geographical locations. When you are operating at that scale, the basics …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Antoine Doublet, Deepsky November 29, 2017 by Super User The last interview and meeting I took on my recent trip to Asia, getting a crash course on the technology and manufacturers doing fine pitch LED, was with Deepsky. The LED display startup is based in Hong Kong, but has deep French roots, as you’ll be able to pick up easily in the accent of …
Budapest Charity Ad Blends OOH, Digital OOH And Contactless Payments November 28, 2017 by Super User Digital and traditional OOH gets blended with contactless payment tech here in a nice charity campaign in Budapest, Hungary, running on a JCDecaux-managed transit shelter. The Antal Zsuzsa Foundation partnered with JCDecaux Hungary to raise awareness of the difficulties that people with quadriplegia face daily, and to encourage passersby to make a donation. The DOOH …
Denver’s Airport Turns On 1,000-Foot Hybrid LED Light And Digital OOH Display Feature November 28, 2017 by Super User If the video auto-plays, my apologies. I looked at the HTML and it didn’t give me any clues on how to shut that off! This is a new digital OOH advertising feature along the highway leading into Denver’s international airport, which is way, way, waaaaay east of the city. There is a 1,000-foot span of LED …
3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table November 28, 2017 by Super User This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. Make Studios created a 3D printed skyline …
Video: LED Shelf-Edge Displays In Grocery Dairy Fridges November 27, 2017 by Super User I’ve seen a few companies at trade shows demo-ing LCD and LED ribbon displays intended for retail shelf edges, but can’t say I’ve seen any out in the real world. So it’s interesting to see this install – no word on whether this is a rollout or a one-shop demo – of a set of …
16:9 Projects Podcast: The Story Behind That 13K LED Wall In Netflix’s HQ Lobby November 24, 2017 by Danica Trapara Imagine, while sitting in the lobby waiting for your next meeting, three walls around you change, placing you in a cocaine manufacturing camp in the jungles of Colombia. Minutes later, they change again to drop you into a prison cafeteria in upper New York state. When Netflix was designing the lobby of their new Hollywood …
New Projection Mapping Festival Lighting Up Hong Kong Facades November 23, 2017 by Super User The light and laser show on the skycrapers lining Hong Kong’s spectacular waterfront have a bit of visual competition right now – a video projection mapping event called the Lumieres Hong Kong festival. Running Nov. 23-25 (so it is on right now in Hong Kong, where it is evening), the festival features three nights of light …
