Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program November 30, 2016 by Super User Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. There are some 100 …
Projects: UK Butcher Orders Up Menu Boards November 30, 2016 by Super User Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. Tariq Halal Meats is one of the larger Halal meat specialists in the UK and Europe, and has started converting its signs behind the counter …
Toyota Rolling Out ChromeOS-Based Signage Network Across 3,000+ European Dealers November 30, 2016 by Super User Hat Tip to @digitaloohnews for spotting this … Toyota’s European auto division has rolled out a ChromeOS-based digital signage solution to some 3,000 of its showrooms, and the company says it plans to have as many as 10,000 screens running off Chromeboxes, across 3,600 dealers. Google’s blog references a program built around Asus Chromeboxes and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Iles Guran, Armodilo November 30, 2016 by Super User Software and display companies get a lot of attention in the digital signage industry, but projects don’t happen without the gear that holds screens in place and keeps them protected. I travelled up to St. Jacob’s, Ontario – just outside the Canadian tech hotbed of Kitchener-Waterloo – to speak with Iles Guran, one of the …
Smart Mirrors Hit Consumer Mainstream November 29, 2016 by Super User A Taiwan-based electronics firm has started shipping a $189 smart mirror aimed at the consumer market that looks like the sort of thing some mid-tier retailers would like to have at their cosmetic counters. The HiMirror is a 14-inch LCD panel embedded in a mirror enclosure and topped with an IP-connected camera that can do …
The Dawn Of Digital Signage For The Dead November 29, 2016 by Super User Hat tip to Gary Kayye for writing about this recently … What if a service at a funeral home wasn’t a dark, deeply uncomfortable experience most people just wanted to get through? What if it was more of a celebration – that used technology to tell the story of a loved one’s life? That’s the premise behind …
Home Of Montreal Canadiens Expands To 100s Of Digital Signs Around Venue November 29, 2016 by Super User Here’s a look inside one of pro hockey’s most famed venues, the Bell Centre in Montreal – home to the Montreal Canadiens. The club now has 100s of digital screens around the venue, all running off Navori Labs QL Professional digital signage engine. The network runs messaging and targeted advertising across concourse displays, concession menu boards, and …
Toronto’s Main Airport Embeds Departures Screens In Giant Nature Sculpture November 28, 2016 by Super User It’s a bit weird that while I am in and out of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport a lot, it’s rare that I fly within Canada and see the domestic side of Terminal 1 – which now has a huge flower-like sculpture that doubles as departures screens. I’d vaguely heard about this thing, but it wasn’t …
Harrods Fills 6-Level Grand Entrance Hall With Fine Pitch LED Ad Walls November 24, 2016 by Super User Via The Drum The British luxury retailer Harrods has installed a series of large, fine pitch LED video installations that greet shoppers at every level in the store’s iconic six-storey Grand Entrance hall. There are 12 LED screens in various configurations at points in the six floors of the department store’s escalator atrium. As reported in The Drum, the …
Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No November 23, 2016 by Super User Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump a tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. But BP thinks differently, and has started testing an interactive gas pump called Miles, …
