PPDS Upsizes Its E-Paper Tableaux Series With 32-Inch Unit To Launch At ISE October 30, 2023 by Dave Haynes PPDS is adding a modestly-upsized version of its full-color e-paper Tableaux display – a larger 32 inch version it will show for the first time at ISE in Barcelona. A 25 inch version of the Philips Tableaux series – the e-paper component is from E Ink – was brought on to the market earlier this …
Are You Getting New Post Emails October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes A reader let me know that he and his colleagues have not been getting the email notifications about new Sixteen:Nine posts, which go out with each post. I did not know this was happening, and am not sure why. I use WordPress as a CMS, and all kinds of things can go haywire with plugins …
Stretched Display Built Into Order Counter Presents Hot Chocolate Options At UK Shop October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an approach to digital menus I haven’t seen before – embedding one of those stretch “bar-type” LCD displays on a tilted stand on the order counter. It’s used by what I guess is a hot chocolate with marshmallow toppings shop in Lincoln, in the UK. There are conventional menu boards up behind the …
UPS Ad Spot Syncs 3D Creative Between Big Times Square Board And Screen On Iconic Brown Panel Truck Below October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip OOH Today for posting on this … The UPS and The UPS Store are marketing their capabilities ahead of the holiday shopping season with a big billboard ad spot in Times Square that suggests a virtual delivery – pairing the creative on the main screen with a smaller LED screen on a UPS …
Start-Up Cloudshelf Expands Beyond Shopify With API That Works With Most E-Comm Platforms October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK start-up that developed a way to smoothly bridge Shopify small business e-commerce sites to in-store retail kiosks and interactive screens has now come up with a software handshake that works, it says, with just about any e-commerce, CMS, or ERP platform. “We believe that every retailer should be able to create a seamless …
Sixteen:Nine DSE 2023 Mixer Sells Out October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes It took longer, but the annual Sixteen:Nine Mixer at DSE 2023 in a few weeks has sold out its 400 or so tickets – ensuring a big crowd once again for the networking event that’s been a kick-off to the industry trade show for more than a decade. With registration out of the way, I …
LED Walls Have Now Been Around Long Enough They’re Aging Out – Like This One At Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes It really doesn’t seem that long ago that LED video walls were just emerging on the market, but we’re already seeing projects with walls that are aging out – like this big set of flanking walls at the entry to the upscale Holt-Renfrew store in equally upscale Yorkdale Mall in Toronto. The original wall went …
Digital Signage Experience Announces 2023 DSE (DIZZIE) Awards Finalists October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Finalists have been announced for the Digital Signage Experience Awards – nicknamed the Dizzies – that recognize great installations or campaigns that apply the technology. The awards will be announced during the trade show and conference, which is coming up Dec. 2-5 in Las Vegas. Here is a compilation video … You are currently viewing …
Genuinely Engaging And Immersive Projection Exhibit Lets Kids Draw, Color Fish For Virtual Aquarium October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Love this … an interactive exhibit that allows kids to draw and color fish or other marine life, have it scanned, and then appear on a big set of projection-mapped screens. Terms like immersive and engaging are wildly over-used, and quite often terribly applicable, but this is very immersive and very engaging for the target …
US University In Damage Control Mode After Hitler Trivia Appears On Big LED Board At Football Stadium October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo credit: Jeff Kowalsky A US university has had to do a bunch of damage control this week after a very large image of Adolf Hitler appeared on the giant LED display at its football stadium, as part of a programming mix running ahead of a Big 10 football game. The image – part of …