Women’s Lifestyle Publisher Marie Claire Opens Tech-Filled Next Big Thing Pop-up Shop In NYC September 28, 2017 by Super User In a slightly odd twist, the women’s fashion and beauty publisher Marie Claire has teamed up with Mastercard to open a pop-up shop in New York this fall, called The Next Big Thing Concept Shop because it features what’s perceived as whiz-bang interactive retailing technology. The store at 120 Wooster in Soho, open until the …
Ballantine’s Creates Immersive, Interactive Scotch Whisky Tasting Rooms September 28, 2017 by Super User This is a couple of years old, but the first I’ve seen of it – an interactive whisky tasting experience that blends immersive 360 projections and interactive touch screens that use optical markers on things like the bottles. It was put together in London for Ballantine’s, a Scottish distiller focused on blended whisky. The global …
Detroit Metro Airport’s DutyFree Gets The LED Halo Effect September 27, 2017 by Super User The big World Duty Free shop in the international terminal at Detroit’s main airport has added a set of displays aimed at energizing the store experience and driving sales and promotions. The showcase feature is a 3mm pitch LED halo ring hanging like a lighting fixture, the idea being the circular display is visible anywhere …
STRATACACHE Acquires Finnish Shopper Analytics Startup Walkbase September 27, 2017 by Super User Dayton, OH-based STRATACACHE has fully acquired an interesting Finnish startup called Walkbase that generates in-store analytics on shopper characteristics and patterns. The company’s software stack does the sort of tracking that uses things like roaming Wi-Fi from smartphones, as well as in-store sensors, to attach anonymous personas to consumers and then develop rich analytics around …
Sephora, Uniqlo Add Digitally-Rich Flagship Stores In Barcelona September 26, 2017 by Super User Information is limited from official channels, but I have seen word here and there about a pair of digitally-rich flagship retail stores opening in Barcelona – for Sephora and Uniqlo. The Sephora concept store appears to have a long corridor leading to the cosmetics shop flanked by a series of tall, fine-pitch LED panels, and …
New Seneca Digital Signage Player Includes HDCP Compliant Video Support September 25, 2017 by Super User Syracuse, NY-based Seneca has started marketing a digital signage player that has a built-in TV tuner and is HDCP compliant – meaning that network operators are on the right side of copyright laws if they build live TV into their programming. HDCP is short for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection, and it’s what a lot of …
Is Coca-Cola’s Big Robotic Billboard In Times Square Mechanical Overkill For Visual Effects? September 25, 2017 by Super User The big three-dimensional robotic billboard that Coca-Cola bankrolled and switched on this summer in New York’s Times Square has generated lots of attention, and led to an interesting debate about whether it’s a brilliant showcase of attention-grabbing technology, or mechanical overkill for effects that could largely be created inside the content. I haven’t seen the …
Digital Screens Replace Paper Tags At Cafe Food Stations September 22, 2017 by Super User Haven’t seen this before … displays fixed above the food guards that you’ll find in cafeterias and buffets all over the place. New partnership between Denver-based school menu-maker Nutrislice and BSI, who since originally posting ome readers have helped me find and link to here (thanks!). We’ve all had the experience of wandering around with …
Keywest Technology Debuts Swiss Army Knife Media Player September 22, 2017 by Super User Software and solutions companies are always pushing out news of platform updates, but it’s not that often I see one of these companies talking about new hardware they’ve put together. Kansas City-based Keywest Technology, which has been around this industry for 15 years, is touting what it calls a multi-use player that operate as a …
LED Tunnel Creates Immersive Experience For MLB All-Star Fans September 22, 2017 by Super User This is a nice temporary set-up using LED displays to create a tunnel effect for a FanFest indoor theme park during the annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game festivities, held this year in Miami. “Major League Baseball made it known three years ago that they were going to implement a tiered series of capital improvements …
