Forget Self-Checkout – Amazon Opens Checkout-Free Store In Seattle December 5, 2016 by Super User Amazon has opened what amounts to a neighborhood grocery near its Seattle headquarters that totally eliminates checkouts and cash registers, allowing people to walk in, grab what they want, and leave – the purchases all tracked through shopper smartphones and the cloud. The 1,800 sq. ft.Amazon Go store is now open as a test for …
Ebay Creates Big Digital Experiences For New Silicon Valley Campus Welcome Center December 5, 2016 by Super User A new central building on the Silicon Valley campus of ecommerce giant eBay, called Main Street, serves as the main gateway and front door for the company. It’s a technology-rich building intended to drive brand identity, capture the rapid pulse of the company and more practically provide much-needed flexible, well-equipped spaces for hosted meetings, conferences, and events. The company …
Sharp Debuts Low-Cost Pro-Grade LCD Series December 2, 2016 by Super User Sharp has debuted a new value-priced but pro-grade series of small to mid-sized displays aimed at the digital signage market. The PN-Y series is available from 32-inches and up to 55. The PN-Ys are touted as an economical alternative to the PN-R series that was announced a few weeks ago, and are about 30 percent less cost than the units …
New Taipei’s Christmasland Is Massively Projection-Mapped December 1, 2016 by Super User They are into Christmas in a BIG way in New Taipei, judging by the massive projection mapping and lighting spectacle staged for the holiday season in the Taiwan city. Put together by Singapore-based Hexogon Solution, there are 42 Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors driving a series of big visuals on the side of the 30-storey city hall and …
NBA Fan Zone Virtual Bobble Heads Find Their Way To OKC Highway Billboard December 1, 2016 by Super User The interactive touchscreen thing at sports venues is not new, but there’s a few things Philly-based MVP Interactive did with Cox Communications and the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder that are kinda cool: Fans make their personal, albeit virtual bobbleheads; A sensor called the vert jump mat measured how high fans can jump (vertical leap is kind of important …
Convergent Wins Solutions Provider Deal For Nascent, US-Wide Digital OOH Network November 30, 2016 by Super User A reworked Convergent is starting to get some traction with its premise of being a Digital Signage as a Service (DSaaS) provider, announcing a deal today to provide the software and services behind something called the ReachMeTV Entertainment Network. The Atlanta-based solutions provider, which has undergone some big management shuffles and ownership changes in recent years, is …
Projects: Mall Of America Adds Slim Digital Wayfinders November 30, 2016 by Super User Here’s a slightly different take on shopping mall wayfinding: smaller screens set at angles, instead of the jumbo vertical screens you mostly see in malls these days. This is at the Mall of America in Minneapolis – which I believe remains the largest shopping mall in the U.S. – and there are six of these, …
Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy November 30, 2016 by Super User A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will …
Projects: Big Digital Experiences Now Greet Visitors To US Bank’s LA Skyline Deck November 30, 2016 by Super User You can go up to the 69th and 70th floors of the US Bank Tower in LA to get a 360-degree view of that city, looking west to the beaches and ocean and the mountains beyond the city’s basin. To get up there, you first stop at the 54th floor, and that’s where a new …
Amazon Developing What Could Be Called A Home Digital Sign November 30, 2016 by Super User Amazon is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a 7-inch screen, reports Bloomberg, that could function, among other things, as something of a home-based digital sign. The new device, reports Bloomberg, will have a touchscreen measuring about seven inches, a major departure from Amazon’s existing cylindrical home devices that are controlled and respond mostly through …
