Home Of Montreal Canadiens Expands To 100s Of Digital Signs Around Venue November 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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, …
UX Designers: Your Duty Is To Design Self-Service Systems That Are Just Obvious To Use November 22, 2016 by Matt Downey Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I spent 20 recently minutes trying to get out of a car park. With a row of cars behind me queued up hooting. Not the most fun I’ve had lately, and it was the second day in a row it happened. Let’s explore why. I rented a Zipcar – for …
What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights? November 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED lights in the back or around the edges doing things like picking up the dominant color on the screen and creating a halo around and behind. Kinda cool, but I don’t think …
Start-up Puts Seat-Back Digital OOH Ads In Uber, Lyft Cars November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via MediaPost A company called Vugo is the latest start-up to try putting ad screens in the back seats of cars for hire, but with the twist that the vehicles are not taxis in a fleet, but owner-operated ride-share cars working for Uber and Lyft. The company told MediaPost it has 11,000 ride-sharing vehicles in Los Angeles …
How About A Huge, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall … In Your Dining Room? November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is in somebody’s house. Yeah. It’s a 21 foot wide wide by 11 foot tall LED video wall made up of 192 1.6mm Planar DirectLight LED modules, and is used as video art and, I guess, to play Dark Souls III and watch Duck Dynasty. The home is in Northern California and was installed with this …
See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. The free Digital Design Tour app provides location mapping, visuals and details …
Skykit Releases Free Planning Guide For Digital Signage Projects November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes Minneapolis-based software firm Agosto, a big Google Apps partner, branched into the digital signage market a couple of years ago through an in-house spinoff called Skykit – a CMS built around Chrome. The company has been an aggressive marketer lately, and recently came out with something I’ve not really seen before – a free and …
