Projects: New Ford Dealer Opens With Digital Brand Halo August 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a big “brand halo” LED sign suspended over the main showroom reception desk at the new LaFontaine Ford in Birch Run, Michigan – north of Flint. It’s a fine-pitch Panasonic LED that with its metal backing and struts weighs about 1,000 pounds. It is suspended using aircraft cable. The set-up was put in …
Raspberry Pi-Based Info-Beamer Sets Up Video Walls In Seconds With QR Code-Like GPS Tags August 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m nowhere near smart enough to properly explain this, but suffice to say a start-up that works with Raspberry Pis for a digital signage solution has come up with a way for users to rapidly set up video walls using a smartphone app and little visual tags that provide GPS coordinates. The AprilTag detection software computes …
Interactive Digital Stations Start Rolling Out On Philly’s Rail System August 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes Google-backed Intersection has started rolling out what will be some 300 interactive digital stations at hubs along the Philadelphia-area rail system run by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, aka SEPTA. The digital totems offer real-time transit information and maps, as well as free WiFi. The first ones have gone in at the remarkably generic-sounding Suburban …
Will US And Canadian Auto Dealers Follow European Lead And Go Small And Digital? August 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Time will tell, but you’ve got to think in North America’s larger cities – where in many cases commercial property costs are steep – that some auto dealers will start following the lead of European automakers who are shifting from large footprint dealerships to small retail settings that lean heavily on digital. I wrote recently …
Projects: Chicago’s United Center Opens Highly Interactive Fan Store August 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes The new 10,000 sq. ft. fan store store at Chicago’s United Center – home to the NBA Bulls and NHL Blackhawks – includes several digital interactive features designed to immerse people in the culture and excitement of the teams. The Madhouse Team Store, in the United Center’s new east expansion area, is there to sell high …
Projects: Transparent Mesh LED Fence Lines Front Of Dubai Mall Aquarium August 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes The aquarium attraction at the huge Dubai Mall recently lit up a massive OLED video wall – which looks amazing. A bit lost in the shuffle was a very large transparent LED mesh fence than runs along the base of the front of the big fish tank, below that huge OLED wall. Transparent mesh LED …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Curt Thornton, Provision August 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes Hologram is up there with artificial intelligence as one of the most abused terms in tech these days – with all kinds of stuff being labelled as holograms when they’re nothing more than reflections or projections. Provision has been marketing what it calls 3D holographic media for a bunch of years, and while purists might …
Do Some Smart Cities Operators Need To Get Smarter Operators? August 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes As Amscreen’s Simon Sugar points out in the tweet below, it’s not like the people behind the smart cities digital OOH interactive screens in the UK didn’t get clues from a sister installation in New York. The InLinkUK interactive stations that are replacing some phone booths around London can easily, it seems, be hijacked to …
Branded Cities Acquires Clear Channel Outdoor Canada August 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes Phoenix-based Branded Cities Network has acquired Clear Channel Outdoor’s 50.001% interest in Clear Channel Outdoor Canada, making the company the 100% owner of the Canadian entity and adding to Branded Cities’ North American footprint. This is very familiar territory for Branded Cities’ Chairman and CEO Steve Ellman, who founded the Canadian company and had US-based …
Here’s Who’s All Behind Coca-Cola’s Giant New Robotic LED Board In NYC August 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes More information is dribbling out about that giant robotic 3D LED board Coca-Cola switched on last week in Times Square. The vendor list is long, and the one most familiar to the digital signage community is Convergent, which is listed as doing Technology Design and Implementation, Content Management and Monitoring Services. If I was expressly in …
