Projects: 14 Digital Experiences In Giant Nebraska Furniture Mart November 20, 2015 by Super User Here’s a look inside at the digital signage installed in the giant Nebraska Furniture Mart store that opened in the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this year. Premier Mounts and Reflect have pushed out a press release about the installation that sees “14 unique digital experiences for nearly 60 displays throughout the store.” Sounds like a lot, …
Projects: NFL’s Patriots Add Interactive LED Towers To Game-Day Experience November 19, 2015 by Super User The Kraft Group, the family-owned company that owns Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, the NFL team that plays out of there, have done a technology upgrade around the facility that includes a set of striking, double-sided LED video columns at an attached fan attraction. The Hall at Patriot Place has four 22-feet-tall-by-4.5-feet-wide columns designed to …
US Lobby Group Warns Ultra HD Screens Can Be Energy Hogs November 19, 2015 by Super User Via Display Daily The emergence of LED-lit LCD displays and the disappearance of plasma displays would probably, reasonably, make end-users think that energy consumption is no longer much on an issue in digital signage deployments. LEDs, after all, are far more energy efficient than the older technologies that were light up flat panel displays. Turns …
Projects: Start-up Testing Virtual Dressing Room Mirror At Polo NYC Flagship November 18, 2015 by Super User Via TechCrunch … A San Francisco-based, VC-funded startup called Oak Labs is running a trial on a slick virtual mirror in the dressing room of the Ralph Lauren Polo NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Instead of the oft-touted augmented reality parlor trick – stand here and we’ll let you virtually try on clothes …
Anthony, Real Digital Media Pair Up On New Transparent Display Doors November 18, 2015 by Super User Another set of companies has entered the competition to win the eyeballs, hearts and budgets of grocers, convenience store operators and consumer brands with connected, transparent LCD displays embedded in cooler and freezer doors. Sarasota, Florida-based signage software firm Real Digital Media and Anthony, which makes display equipment for refrigeration systems, are launching a new product …
29 Options For Free Digital Signage Software November 17, 2015 by Super User Free is one of the oldest tools in the marketing sales kit. Get your first one free! Buy one, get the next one free. Start your free trial today! You know the drill. And you likely know that in most cases, it’s not really free. There’s a catch. Or a limitation. This is not a …
The $85 Asus Chromebit Now Shipping; Google Halves Device Management Fee For Digital Signage Apps November 17, 2015 by Super User The Google-backed Asus Chromebit is now on the marketplace in the U.S. and select countries, with the U.S. version priced at $85 for what’s billed as a computer on a stick. The device is an HDMI stick that plugs into any monitor or TV with that port. It has built-in WiFi and runs on a Rockchip …
Projects: GM Canada Rolling Out Screens Across Auto Dealership Network November 15, 2015 by Super User A well-planned and executed video can get a pile of marketing mileage for a company, or team of partner companies, and I suspect this piece about a digital signage deployment now rolling out in Canadian GM auto dealerships will do that nicely. I have direct experience going dealer to dealer selling the digital signage dream …
Adflow Gets U.S. Patent Grant On Interactive Retail Technology November 15, 2015 by Super User The guys up the street from me at ADFLOW Networks have announced a new patent grant for the process of lifting and looking at products in retail environments. The longtime signage CMS firm, based in Burlington, Ontario, says U.S. Patent No. 9,152,986 for “lift and touch” technology simplifies the complex problem of maintaining and updating content related to …
Projects: Lowe’s Goes Virtual To Squeeze More SKUs Into NYC Stores November 12, 2015 by Super User Commercial space is insanely expensive in Manhattan, so if a big box store wants to have a footprint in New York City it has to slim down the number of SKUs it has on hand and get creative with how products are marketed. One of the ways the DIY chain Lowe’s is doing that is …
