E-Ink Displays Used To Assign Parking For Swiss Car-Pool Commuters November 18, 2016 by Super User A European carpooling service is using electronic ink signs, running off solar and connected by 3G, to direct motorists to assigned spots in parking lots. BePooler’s carpooling service generates over 300 shared trips per week (I assume it’s a start-up) and offers preferential parking spaces booked for those who join the service. That precious, assigned …
Iconic London Phoneboxes Being Reimagined, Deployed As Ad Posters, Interactive Stations November 17, 2016 by Super User These seem really clever – old but iconic London phone boxes replaced by interactive stations that are bankrolled by digital OOH ad posters one one of two sides. The stations are being put in by Clear Channel UK, and manufactured by Amscreen, which has come a very long way from the days of putting up …
Volanti, BrightSign Pair Up On Snappy 4K Interactive Displays November 17, 2016 by Super User The specialty display firm Volanti Displays, a spinoff from Digital View, has developed a set of 4K touchscreen panels that are designed to work and easily mount with one of BrightSign’s higher-powered media players. BrightSign’s new Series 3 XT players have been set up to work with Volanti’s 55″, 65″, 84″ and 98″ 4K panels. The …
Nike Says It’s Transforming Sports Retail With New SOHO Store November 16, 2016 by Super User Nike just opened a new store in New York City’s Soho neighborhood that really pushes the idea of experiential retail – using massive digital visuals and tapping into sensors for real-time feedback. Nike Soho is a five-storey, multi-sport, 55,000-square-foot store at 529 Broadway at Spring Street. I THINK I tried to go in to it last …
Video: Four Winds Uses Own Platform To Track, Drive Sales November 16, 2016 by Super User I’m not a big fan of the phrase – “Eat your own dog food” – because it kinda turns me off dinner. But … it’s an apt way of describing how organizations actually use the products or services they sell. This is a video I stumbled on from Denver’s Four Winds Interactive – posted a few …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Schneider, ESI Design November 16, 2016 by Super User I had a chance last week to tour the New York studio and offices for ESI Design, which has done some amazing experiential digital work in public spaces, as well as museums and in retail settings. Michael Schneider is a senior experience designer and creative technologist at the company, and we spent time talking about the …
What Digital Signage Could Learn From Lyft’s New Beacons And Dashboard Signs November 15, 2016 by Super User I was reading a piece this morning about how the ride-hailing service Lyft, Uber’s main rival in the US and Canada, was going to start using a mash-up of beacons, lights and apps to help passengers better connect with their drivers. This particularly intrigued me because I had a hell of time in New York recently …
HP Debuts Powerful, Super Small Workstation November 15, 2016 by Super User Form factor is a big thing in digital signage – with the need for smaller PC/media player boxes that can tuck behind displays or in other limited spaces. But small has usually been tied to low-powered and relatively low-priced. HP has just unveiled what it calls the world’s first mini workstation – a high-powered box that is …
Christie Adds New Tools, Services For Projection Mapping Jobs November 15, 2016 by Super User Christie introduced a product called Christie Mystique earlier this year that was built around the concept of making projection mapping jobs far easier to dream up, visualize and execute. The idea was that very ambitious jobs like projecting on to a pro hockey ice surface – something that for a long time was immensely complicated – could largely …
Projects: Instagram Lights Up New HQ With Lobby Displays November 15, 2016 by Super User Via Business Insider Here’s a peek inside Instagram’s recently opened new offices in Silicon Valley, up the road from the main offices of its masters, Facebook. As you can see from the main image, the design by Gensler went big on photos in large digital display clusters in the lobby. The company is also using …
