NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
Schools-Focused TrilbyTV Adds Mr. Bee’s Math Tasks To Screen Content Mix January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Education digital signage solution providers TrilbyTV have developed an interesting new content partnership that puts daily math tasks from a teacher named Mr. Bee on UK school screens. The visuals present maths challenges to schoolkids, and add to a line-up of other visual tools being used already, including material from Vocabulary Ninja, Rodocodo, Britannica and …
Health Care A Great Target Vertical For Digital Signage, But The Competition Is Not Just From Rival Providers January 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Health care is a heavily pre-occupied right now by the pandemic, but I think that sector is a huge, longer-range target for digital signage applications that has largely been untouched to date. Just in the same way workplaces developed into a huge vertical market for displays, addressing communication and operating issues through screens in common …
Amazon Launching Bricks And Mortar Apparel Store, With Fitting Room Touchscreens As Hubs January 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Amazon is planning to open its first bricks and mortar store dedicated to apparel, and one of the key components of the in-store customer experience will be touchscreens. The first Amazon Style store will be in suburban LA and will open later this year – showing women’s and men’s apparel, shoes, and accessories from a …
Curved, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall Focal Point For Newly-Opened First Americans Museum In OKC January 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Craig Keefner of Kiosk Industry, who pointed me to this nice video wall project. The First Americans Museum of Oklahoma is described as the only space in the United States where visitors can have an immersive experience learning about American history through the lens of 39 Tribal Nations, and one of the …
Samsung Had To Charter Jets To Bring Home COVID-Hit Execs From CES: Report January 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Omicron variant is so easily spread that if individuals and businesses opt in to events like trade shows – particularly if there airplanes, hotels and restaurants involved – there’s a pretty solid chance attendees are going to head home with COVID-19 in their airways. Consider the story circulating about Samsung executives who went to …
Parisian Mall’s LED Set-up Offers Visual Domination For Marketers January 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’d put this in the oldie but goodie category of posts – an LED-lined shopping mall atrium in suburban Paris. I came across a domination campaign being done in Westfield’s Les 4 Temps mall and thought it was very impressive in terms of scale and managing to be visually unavoidable, without being crass about it. …
Dennis Hickey On Why SNA Display Not Only Makes And Markets LED Displays, It Bankrolls Them January 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes I spoke recently with a consulting firm that was looking at the outdoor LED space, and trying to wrap its collective heads around who the LED leaders were in North America. They rattled off a bunch of vendor names, but did not mention SNA Displays. I sorted them out, noting how the company was a …
Consultancy OOH Capital Adds Three Heavyweight Partner Advisors January 18, 2022 by Dave Haynes Through the years I have had a pile of emails and calls from money people and entrepreneurs seeking advice about the digital OOH media business, and in most cases I have sent them elsewhere – because that business is SO complicated by all the language used and all the different platforms and technologies that can …
Mvix’s V3 Of CMS Platform Buffs Up UX, But Puts Focus On Device Management, Security Features January 18, 2022 by Dave Haynes The DC-area digital signage software and solutions firm Mvix has announced a major version release of its enterprise platform that adds functionality and streamlines workflows, but perhaps most importantly focuses on mission-critical matters like device health management and security. A pretty, friendly UX is always nice, but on networks that have 100s or 1,000s of …
