Ambitious New LA Skateboard Shop Uses Curved LED Wall To Drive Retail Experience July 5, 2019 by Super User Readers will be shocked to read that I don’t know a lot about skateboards or skateboard retailing. Shameful, but true. I did not know, for example, that they can look like over-priced kitchenware stores, or a forgotten part of the Caesars Palace resort in Vegas. This the new LA location of Palace Skateboards, self-described as one …
Inkjet Printing Tech Expected To Lower Costs, Up Capacity For Big OLED Screens July 4, 2019 by Super User The research firm IHS Markit says OLED display costs are expected to drop as technology that effectively prints the displays matures and production capacity expands. Inkjet-printed (IJP) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to enter mass production next year, with capacity expected to rise as much as 12X from 2020 through 2024, …
Pop-Up Shop In Flashy UK Mall Uses AI To Highlight Trendiest Togs July 3, 2019 by Super User The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. The online retail public Essential Retail reports: The Trending Store pop-up, which will …
Pro AV Gig Matchmaker AV Junction Tweaks Business Model; Now Free To Use July 2, 2019 by Super User The Toronto area start-up that is trying to bring the gig economy to pro AV jobs has done a bit of a pivot, moving from a pay to play model to one that is now free and will go freemium. AV Junction has announced the launch of a free web platform designed to match pre-vetted AV …
Charlotte Office Tower Lobby Adds Huge, Curved 4K LED Wall July 2, 2019 by Super User This is a newly installed and fired-up direct view LED video wall in the lobby of a new office tower in the financial services-dominant downtown of Charlotte, NC, spotted on Linkedin. The thing is a beast – large enough to deliver 4K visuals even though the pixel pitch is 4.7mm, which is almost 2X the …
Bookmaker Uses Hyper-targeted DOOH Campaign To Needle People Heading To Royal Ascot Races June 28, 2019 by Super User This is a good example of how using data, and a sense of humor, can help generate a hyper-targeted, event-driven and cheeky out of home campaign. A media campaign for the betting service Paddy Power used DOOH screens in and around Waterloo and Clapham Junction rail stations in London to target crowds going to the …
A Look Inside McDonald’s New Interactive Screen-Filled Global HQ June 28, 2019 by Super User This is a look inside the new global HQ for McDonald’s, which has come in from the Chicago suburbs to an older building in the West Loop area that was previously home to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. The space looks beautiful, and has numerous experiential interactive displays put together by the Chicago design shop Leviathan. …
DSF NYC Summer Mixer Set For July 17th June 28, 2019 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is holding a summertime mixer in New York City on July 17th at the offices of the creative studio C&G Partners. The mixer will run for two hours, starting at 5 PM. There will be drinks and light hors d’oeuvres. RSVPs are limited to 60 people. Admission is free for members, …
If You Sell Digital Signage Solutions Into Food Services, You’re Now Competing With Coca-Cola June 26, 2019 by Super User Well this is pretty interesting – digital signage CMS companies chasing the food services businesses have long known they had many competitors, big and small, but they probably never envisioned Coca-Cola being among them. The beverage giant has announced a partnership on a digital marketplace, to launch this fall, “that connects its foodservice customers to …
Smart City Proposal For Toronto Waterfront Takes Pains To Explain Data Use And Privacy Protection June 26, 2019 by Super User Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, has released an ambitious set of high level plans for a smart city district to be built on Toronto’s waterfront. The 1,500+ page master plan proposes that the company would fund up to $1.3 billion to transform a largely derelict 4.8-hectare waterfront property in an old docklands area into …
