Dutch Lingerie Retailer Offers Sensory Experience In Flagships August 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Scala has circulated a good case study about the work it has been doing with systems integrator partner DOBIT for the European lingerie retailer Hunkemo?ller, particularly in flagship high street stores like the one in the video. The Amsterdam-based brand has 180 stores in the Netherlands and 100 more in Belgium and Luxembourg, The set-up does …
Projects: Vienna’s Airport Gets Megaboard DOOH Wall At Security Checkpoint August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes I have mixed feelings about this new “megaboard” video wall at the security clearance area at Vienna, Austria’s international airport. On the plus side, it’s pretty damn clever to turn the facade for the screening area into an out of home advertising opportunity. But, we’re now living in the days of seamless, fine pitch LED …
Amazing: Dubai Mall Turns On World’s Largest OLED Video Wall August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes The massive Dubai Mall in guess where has just turned on a new OLED video wall that breaks a bunch of records for sheer scale. It is 50 meters wide by 14 meters tall, fronting the aquarium attraction in the mall. The digital canvas is 1.7 billion pixels. The OLEDs are LG’s, and there are …
Projects: Line Friends Tops New Times Square Store With 1,600 Sq. Ft. LED August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Content is a factor, of course, but’s generally kind of amazing how good a 10mm pitch outdoor LED sign can look these days. This is an upgraded LED board that replaced an older digital display used by Aeropostale to advertise its brand outside a Times Square retail store. The new one is for LINE FRIENDS, an …
New Turnkey Digital Signage Solution Builds Off Open Source Xibo Software August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Free open source digital signage software options get a lot of reader interest here, but I’ve not seen many commercial companies take open source options and roll them into their commercial offer (unless you lump in Android). However, here’s a Las Vegas-based, casino-centric solutions company that’s developed a CMS offer built on the long-running Xibo …
RDM Hires DSF Vice Chair Graham Out Of Longtime College Job August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes As mentioned in the past, posts on new hires don’t tend to generate a lot of page views, which means readers don’t generally care about new sales people. But this one is noteworthy … Tampa Bay-area CMS software firm Real Digital Media has hired on Spencer Graham as Business Development Manager for Higher Education. Graham comes …
Hacking Dangers In Digital Signage, with Gary Feather, CTO, NanoLumens August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m changing up the podcast a little bit this week. I have my own rule that I want to talk to a bunch of other companies first before I talk to one a second time. I’ve also made this podcast about people and not issues. But this week I am talking to Gary Feather, CTO …
Changi Airport Previews Incredible 70-Metre Immersive LED Wall August 1, 2017 by Dave Haynes Singapore’s Changi Airport has started providing peaks inside the new Terminal 4, which is set to open before the end of this year. One of the big features is a vast immersive fine pitch LED video wall at the security screening area. Instead of small screens and talking flat ladies droning on endlessly about what …
Projects: Local UK Tourism Council Builds Digital Attractions Stand July 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes A project doesn’t need to be big and expensive to be well done and effective. Here’s a simple but well executed tourism application that adds digital to an attractions brochure rack. The borough of Pendle in the UK created a visitor information point in the café area of retailer Boundary Mill’s flagship store outlet, based …
Projects: 70 Flexible OLEDs Create Digital Ad Chandelier At Indian Mall July 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes A shopping mall south of New Delhi, India is using 70 55-inch LG OLEDs to create a digital chandelier for advertising. The three-layer feature piece is installed at Ambience Mall in the city of Gurugram. The top layers create round bands, above a three-sided bottom layer. The ads are for LG’s high-end home appliance line LG …
