Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy November 30, 2016 by Super User A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will …
Spotify’s Digital OOH Campaign Mined Listener Data To Create Snarky, Fun Ads November 30, 2016 by Super User Via Adweek … You gotta like this clever, ironic digital OOH campaign the streaming music provider Spotify has started running in several markets in the US, UK, France and Germany. The company’s in-house creative team looked at listener data and crafted a bunch of messages that take playful pokes at some of their listeners. The …
Projects: Big Digital Experiences Now Greet Visitors To US Bank’s LA Skyline Deck November 30, 2016 by Super User You can go up to the 69th and 70th floors of the US Bank Tower in LA to get a 360-degree view of that city, looking west to the beaches and ocean and the mountains beyond the city’s basin. To get up there, you first stop at the 54th floor, and that’s where a new …
Amazon Developing What Could Be Called A Home Digital Sign November 30, 2016 by Super User Amazon is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a 7-inch screen, reports Bloomberg, that could function, among other things, as something of a home-based digital sign. The new device, reports Bloomberg, will have a touchscreen measuring about seven inches, a major departure from Amazon’s existing cylindrical home devices that are controlled and respond mostly through …
Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program November 30, 2016 by Super User Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. There are some 100 …
Projects: UK Butcher Orders Up Menu Boards November 30, 2016 by Super User Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. Tariq Halal Meats is one of the larger Halal meat specialists in the UK and Europe, and has started converting its signs behind the counter …
Toyota Rolling Out ChromeOS-Based Signage Network Across 3,000+ European Dealers November 30, 2016 by Super User Hat Tip to @digitaloohnews for spotting this … Toyota’s European auto division has rolled out a ChromeOS-based digital signage solution to some 3,000 of its showrooms, and the company says it plans to have as many as 10,000 screens running off Chromeboxes, across 3,600 dealers. Google’s blog references a program built around Asus Chromeboxes and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Iles Guran, Armodilo November 30, 2016 by Super User Software and display companies get a lot of attention in the digital signage industry, but projects don’t happen without the gear that holds screens in place and keeps them protected. I travelled up to St. Jacob’s, Ontario – just outside the Canadian tech hotbed of Kitchener-Waterloo – to speak with Iles Guran, one of the …
Smart Mirrors Hit Consumer Mainstream November 29, 2016 by Super User A Taiwan-based electronics firm has started shipping a $189 smart mirror aimed at the consumer market that looks like the sort of thing some mid-tier retailers would like to have at their cosmetic counters. The HiMirror is a 14-inch LCD panel embedded in a mirror enclosure and topped with an IP-connected camera that can do …
The Dawn Of Digital Signage For The Dead November 29, 2016 by Super User Hat tip to Gary Kayye for writing about this recently … What if a service at a funeral home wasn’t a dark, deeply uncomfortable experience most people just wanted to get through? What if it was more of a celebration – that used technology to tell the story of a loved one’s life? That’s the premise behind …
