Chinese Restaurant Launches With Kiosks That Enable Ordering And Payment Via Facial Recognition September 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes Self-service ordering stations on touch-driven displays are getting mainstreamed by giant QSRs like McDonald’s, but a Chinese company tied in with KFC is taking the tech a step further by building facial recognition and payments into the screens. Yum China Holdings has launched a new restaurant concept, KPRO by KFC, in Hangzhou, China (near Shanghai) …
Projects: 7-Metre-Wide High Street Window LED Kicks Off New Boot September 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes As seen on Linkedin This is a nice temporary installation in a high street window, in central London, using a one metre tall by seven metres wide fine pitch LED wall to highlight the launch of a new boot by Clarks Shoes. I like how the design team used print graphics to frame the digital …
Columbus Convention Center Expansion Includes 7 by 60 Wide LED Wall September 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Turns out that 14-foot LED selfie head isn’t the only big digital feature turned on at the convention center in Columbus, Ohio. There’s also a 7-foot tall by 60 wide fine pitch LED wall in the building, put together by solutions provider Coffman Media and running Signagelive’s CMS. It’s part of a $140 million upgrade to …
Eyes Open For Giant 14-Foot LED Selfie Head At Columbus, OH Convention Center September 1, 2017 by Dave Haynes I like how fine pitch LED is making for some highly creative displays – like this giant head that opened its eyes last night at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in Columbus, Ohio. The LED head electronics were manufactured by SNA Displays, and the structure and integration was by Design Communications Ltd. This is a …
New InterContinental Uses E-Paper Counter Displays To Greet Guests August 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes Putting tablets as small digital signs on hotel reception counters is not new, but the Slovenian tech firm Visionect has added some nice twists to the offer. This is the new five-star InterContinental Hotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital. The operators are using Visionect’s Place & Play wireless e-paper display, which shows arriving guests information on the loyalty …
Tampa’s NFL Stadium Adds Fine-Pitch LED Ribbon Board For VIP Fan Area August 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes LED ribbon boards are very commonplace inside stadium and arena seating bowls, and along soccer pitch sidelines, but I’m not sure they are often seen inside the sports venues, along the concourses. And not at a fine pitch normally reserved for video walls. This is the concourse at Raymond James Stadium, home to the NFL’s …
A Robotic 3D Video Wall … From 1990 August 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip @johnbirchman We told you yesterday about a 1967 robotic video wall (well, sorta … it was photo slides, not videos). Here’s another example of a big video wall doing the robotic three-dimensional thing Coca-Cola has unveiled in Times Square. This one is from 1990, at the Epcot (Disney) theme park in Orlando. The …
Coca-Cola’s Crazy Robotic 3D LED Wall In Times Square Had A Forerunner … In 1967! August 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes Scala’s Chief Product Officer Peter Cherna had a first-hand look recently at that robotic three-dimensional LED board that Coca-Cola bankrolled and installed in Times Square earlier this month, and it reminded him of something he saw as a kid some 50 years ago. “As someone who grew up in Montreal, Expo 67 was a part …
We’re Partnering On International Digital Signage Awards Program August 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m a big believer in industry awards programs and always baffled by how few companies in this industry go after them. There are many, many reasons to be skeptical and jaded about awards. They can be political. Pay to play. Slanted to favorites. Or just plain stupid. But they can also be very good – …
Flash Is Done; Time For Digital Signage To Fully Adopt HTML5 August 30, 2017 by Paul Croubalian Guest Post: Paul Vincent, Neuranet Most computer technologies come and go quickly, with few people outside of software engineering noticing. But Adobe’s Flash was a major technology that lasted 20 years, and was familiar to just about any consumer with a laptop or smartphone. Consumers knew about the frequent updates needed for the Flash player plug-in, and …
