Sysview Must Have Liked Signagelive’s Website So Much The Company Just Went Ahead And Used It November 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes A mostly incomprehensible press release from a Chinese hardware and software company out of Shenzhen, called Sysview, sent me clicking through to the company website on the weekend, to try to figure out what they were going on about. I got off that original goal pretty quickly, though, as I starting clicking around and thinking, “Hmmm …
Projects: Making Visitor Guestbooks Better By Going Digital November 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. New York-based creative design studio C&G Partners …
Google Shops Open In Canada With 3×3 Feature Video Walls November 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Google has set up Google Shops in Best Buy stores in four Canadian cities, as a means of enabling consumers to get their mitts on hardware sold mostly online. Google Canada’s “shop within a shop” spaces were officially opened Friday in the Toronto area, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. The one in the Toronto area is in Mississauga …
McDonald’s Plans U.S.-Wide Rollout Of Self-Service Order Kiosks November 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes The big moment for a lot of digital technology is when the big guys stop tests and trials and start rolling it out – and that’s what McDonald’s is now doing in the U.S. with self-service ordering kiosks. The fast food giant says it is planning to roll out self-service kiosks to all of its …
E-Ink Displays Used To Assign Parking For Swiss Car-Pool Commuters November 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
