50-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Strip Added To Downtown Calgary’s Pedway System January 22, 2019 by Super User Calgary, Alberta’s forest of energy sector-centric office towers is interconnected above the streets by a series of enclosed and climate-controlled (usually) pedway bridges, with the mezzanine levels of many of the buildings filled with retail and services. It’s an environment that teems with business professionals – geologists, engineers and lawyers – so it is an …
Chinese Beauty Brand Nu Skin Fills Shenzhen Flagship With Digital Screens January 22, 2019 by Super User This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. The store has more than 50 screens in a …
New Orleans Car Dealer Uses Digital Billboards To Troll NFL After Missed Call January 22, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip to Datacall’s Tim Vance for flagging this … A New Orleans man who owns multiple car dealerships around that city has booked LED billboards around the Atlanta area to troll the National Football League ahead of the Super Bowl there, in the wake of an awful missed call that very, very likely kept …
Digital Signage Organisation Forms, Focusing On European Industry January 21, 2019 by Super User The Digital Signage Organisation (or DSO) has been formed and announced as a new entity intended to support the European Digital Signage industry. The organization’s President is Simon Jackson – who is Vice President, Strategic & Vertical Sales EMEA for NEC Display Solutions, and was previously President of the Digital Signage Federation Europe (DSF-E). Joining him …
Digital Signs Of The Times: Shutdown Time Counters And Birdbox Challenge Warnings January 18, 2019 by Super User The digital signage CMS software company Rise Vision produces a lot of free, ready-to-use templates for its big base of 9,000-plus customers, and while most of them are things like welcome messages, promotions, menus and calendars, the company’s creatives have also produced things that are more public service-oriented, like anti-bullying messages. Reflecting how things have …
Best Western Rolls Out Smart, webOS-based Screen Network To 2,400+ Hotels January 18, 2019 by Super User LG is seeing what must be one of the largest deployments yet of smart digital signage displays – one or several webOS-based smart commercial screens in more than 2,400 Best Westerns across the US and Canada. Typically, Best Western guests will see one to three displays at each property, providing travelers with instant access to …
Broadsign Fights “Patent Troll” To Draw As Both Sides Drop Actions January 17, 2019 by Super User Montreal digital OOH software shop Broadsign has fought its way to a draw with a company widely labelled as a patent troll – getting released from current action from T-Rex Property AB while agreeing in turn to dismiss the counter lawsuit it filed against T-Rex. A Broadsign press release says: T-Rex acquired patents in 2006 relating …
Cranky General Public 1 – Smart Screen 0 January 16, 2019 by Super User I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. So …
Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens January 16, 2019 by Super User When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber …
LG Now Actively Marketing Its Transparent LED Film For Glass Surfaces January 16, 2019 by Super User LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those …
