PepsiCo Creates What Amounts To “Smart Can” Digital Signage Network Geared To Creatives And Influencers June 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Beverage giant PepsiCo has debuted something it calls a Pepsi Smart Can – a version of its soda can that has a wraparound screen and electronics instead of liquid inside. The intent of the smart cans is to ship them out to influencers and the creative community, like those at agencies, as something of a …
Saudi’s Qiddiya Giga-Project Adds Plans For Sci Fi-Looking Performing Arts Center June 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Saudi giga-project outside of Riyadh – called Qiddiya City – has now added a digital-heavy performing arts center to the list of ambitious and expensive projects at various stages of development. Announced today, new of the center comes on the heels of several other entertainment, sporting and cultural attractions for the area – including …
Zoom-Zoom: InfoComm Videos Demo Curved Touch LEDs And Infinite Zoom Software June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a few videos from InfoComm last week that demo a curved, touched LED video wall, and interactive software that continues to genuinely blow my mind. This first one is a real world demo of curved yet multi-touch capable fine pitch display that is a collaboration between Planar and TSI Touch. For context, touch on …
New Streaming Curated Curated Digital Art Service Vieunite Pro Also Enables Workplace Messaging June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes There have been several companies that have popped up offering subscription content services focused on digital artworks to be used on commercial displays – as one-offs or part of the mix in digital signage networks – but a newly launched service out of the UK blends curated artwork, screens optimized for display art, and a …
McDonald’s Ending AI-Driven, Drive-Thru Voice Ordering Trial With IBM June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes While there is no end of buzz about AI and its ability to take over and optimize some human tasks, one of the world’s largest and most influential quick service restaurant chains is lapsing atrial it was running that used AI for automated order-taking in its drive-thru lanes. McDonald’s has told franchisees it is shutting …
Sphere Hosts Its First Corporate Event, For HPE’s Discover Conference June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes This would have cost a couple of bucks … The Sphere in Las Vegas has so far been used by a series of beloved baby boomer rock bands for concerts, and also as a high-end cinema running a film shot specifically for the venue. But it was only a matter of time before some deep-pocketed …
rAVe Videos Help Backfill What I Somehow Missed At InfoComm, Like A Godzilla LCD June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes North Carolina-based publisher and promotions agency rAVe Publications once again had a small army of smartphone-wielding twenty-somethings in purple Ts swarming the two halls of InfoComm, shooting usually quick and seriously unscripted videos at all the stands of last week’s show. They edit and post those photos during and mostly in the days after the …
Big Nike Stores In Europe Use Gesture-Sensing LED Walls To Market High-Tech Apparel Line June 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Nike is using big interactive LED display walls, gesture sensing cameras and interactive software to market its Dri-Fit apparel at three of its big-city, flagship-y stores during the UEFA European Men’s Football Championships. The set-ups are at Nike’s Paris House Of Innovation, Nike Town London and Nike Berlin Tauentzienstraße, and thank God I don’t have …
Free And Well Worth The Click: The 2024 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available For Download June 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes There is not a lot of in-depth insights and interview work done that is specific to the digital signage sector, and much of what is available involves very limited briefs that point to paywalled material, so the annual digital signage yearbook produced by German content partner invidis is pretty much unique because of its depth …
DSF Digiscape Graphically Segments, Sorts Its Industry Members June 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have made, through the years, brief and abandoned runs at doing one of those graphics that try to capture and then sort by categories the ecosystem of digital signage, as it is a lot of work and almost impossible to capture. So I have praise and sympathy for my friend Jim Nista, who has …
