Will There Be A Pantenna Under The Tree For You? December 20, 2016 by Super User This deserves a big audience – the annual festive season video from the folks at signage solutions provider Telecine in Montreal, sent out this afternoon in an email blast. Your host is Telecine owner James Fine. Very well done!
Globalshop & DSE Do Two Shows-One Badge Deal For 2017 December 20, 2016 by Super User It went in one ear and out the other at the time, but in re-listening to my podcast with Digital Signage Expo show director Andrea Varrone she mentioned how Globalshop was on at the same time as DSE in Las Vegas, and that attendees could get into both shows – with one badge. DSE has …
NCR Sales Rep Probably Dancing After Bagging Bojangles Rollout December 20, 2016 by Super User The big POS company NCR, which now calls itself a leader in omni-channel solutions, has bagged a deal to provide the digital signage solution for the Southern US-centric fast food chain Bojangles. The chain will use NCR Vitalcast at its company-owned stores, which makes up more than 40% of the total stores in the roughly 700-unit Bojangles …
Future Interfaces Lab Pairs Phones To Big Touch Displays Using Just The Phone Camera December 20, 2016 by Super User Finding a seamless link between digital signage/interactive displays and smartphones has so far been something of a bridge too far – the problems being a need for certain technologies to be included or installed on the phone. A new system from the Future Interfaces Group research lab at Carnegie Mellon University takes a run at the challenge, …
This Giant Digital Board Slides On Tracks At Singapore’s Changi Airport December 19, 2016 by Super User The Singapore office of JC Decaux has switched on an impressive digital landmark ad displays at Changi Airport, which routinely wins awards as the best airport on the planet. It’s a very large 4.8mm pixel LED board, which would be a bit of a “yeah, so?” situation if it wasn’t on tracks and sliding back …
Retail Strategist: We’re Moving Away From Gimmickry And Gadgetry December 16, 2016 by Super User I love this quote in the Toronto Star, from the head of Retail Strategy for Accenture in Canada: “(We’re going to be) moving away from some of the gimmicky and gadgetry that we’ve seen until now, like digital screens you can interact with but they don’t really add to the experience,” said Kelly Askew. Yeah. …
Cool: Italian Sports Retailer Projects Video On Flagship Store’s Fixtures December 16, 2016 by Super User Via Retail Design Blog This is a cool application of projection in retail – running video right on or through the perforated metal bulkheads of store fixtures. The images are from Game 7 Athletics, an Italian multi-brand sports retailer that has opened a flagship store inside the Arese shopping center in Milan. The store design was …
Fast Fashion Etailer Missguided’s First Physical Shop Has More Than 30 Screens December 16, 2016 by Super User Spotted in Retail Gazette Here’s a look inside the first bricks and mortar shop for the online fast-fashion brand Missguided – a 20,000 sq. ft. shop in London’s Westfield Stratford shopping mall. It opened about three weeks ago. Integrator Smart LED put in two big 3.9mm high resolution LED walls at the payment areas, and then there are …
France’s Videospot Adds WordPress Digital Signage Plugin December 16, 2016 by Super User A French software firm, Videospot, has added to the still short list of companies that have developed WordPress plugins to make digital signage run on the hugely popular website and blogging content management platform. “The idea,” says Videospot’s Pierre Arlaud, “is that you can create a page or a mini site under WordPress. You may …
Screenfeed Goes Beautifully Minimal With New Spectrum Weather Service December 15, 2016 by Super User Loyal 16:9 blog and podcast sponsor Screenfeed just announced a very nice new subscription weather service that takes advantage of HTML5 to be highly configurable and animated. Called Spectrum Weather, the service has a wonderfully minimalist look that flies in the face of ALL the cluttered, often cheap looking layouts that persist in the signage marketplace. …
