Projects: New Tech Center Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Columns September 3, 2015 by Super User This is the new Technology Center of Excellence that connectivity and IT services firm CenturyLink has opened in Monroe, Louisiana – with 37,000 square feet of nanotechnology glass that tints automatically and three big NanoLumens wrap-around displays inside. Opened earlier this year, the building alone makes a pretty big statement, but the company wanted to amplify that with …
Projects: Slovenian Capital Using Visionect’s Smart E-Displays On Transit Stops September 2, 2015 by Super User The Slovenian smart display firm Visionect is working with officials in the capital city, Ljubljana, on sets of street-level bus stop displays that use electronic paper. Running on Visionect’s hardware and software, the new electronic paper screens show bus schedules, arrival information and potential route changes on four bus stops along Ljubljana’s central district. The value …
Capital Networks, OPTiFi Partner On New Audience Analytics Tech September 2, 2015 by Super User Digital signage and broadcast software company Capital Networks has entered into an interesting partnership with a small company that enables consumer behaviour metrics by picking up on smartphone signals. OPTiFi uses wireless sensing to anonymously register smartphones that come into a zone, and build aggregate patterns of what all those people do and how they …
Asus Announces Set Of $129 PCs On Sticks September 2, 2015 by Super User The gap continues to close in the battle over the lowest cost technology for putting digital signage in the field, with news this morning that Asus is marketing a $129 PC on a stick that has an Intel processor under the teeny little hood. The Asus VivoStick PC measures 5.4? x 1.3? x 0.6? and like …
DSrupted Speaker Preview: Brad Parler On Shaping Behavior With Great Content September 1, 2015 by Super User Brad Parler is coming up from Houston, Texas in a couple of weeks to talk at DSrupted.com about better, more effective content. Here’s a sneak peek at what he’ll be talking about at the Sept. 16th event – a shorter version from an interactive conference he spoke at recently, down in Houston. Brad Parler – …
DSrupted: The Future Is About Pixels Everywhere September 1, 2015 by Super User So much has happened on the software and computing side of the digital signage business in recent years that I think we tend to overlook how much has also happened on the display side. When I got into this business 16 years ago LCD panels were small and crazily expensive, and the big flat panels …
Projects: Brown-Forman’s Interactive Liquor Wall At HQ September 1, 2015 by Super User This is a big 3×3 touch interactive video wall designed exclusively for Brown-Forman, makers of Jack Daniels and all kinds of other booze, at its Louisville, Kentucky headquarters. An interactive bottle carousel showcases all the liquor brands, and includes directional audio for what’s described as a multi-sensory experience. The experience was conceived and developed by Array Interactive …
Projects: Giant LED Traffic Totem Lights Up In Kazakhstan August 31, 2015 by Super User Here’s a very nice, very different take on using LED boards along highways. Instead of endless ads for lawyers and auto dealers and casinos, this vertical LED totem that just lit up in Almaty, Kazakhstan runs traffic information. The 10 mm pixel pitch unit, installed by Billboard Video LED Engineering, is 7 meters high by two …
The Digital QSR Future Is Now … But Ya Gotta Like Quinoa August 31, 2015 by Super User A new San Francisco eatery called Eatsa has gone as far as I have ever seen integrating digital into its customer experience – actually removing visible staffing from the mix. Ordering is all done by tablets, payment is all by plastic, a big video wall promotes the overall product and lets customers know order status, and …
Original Community Content Focus of New LA Digital OOH Network August 31, 2015 by Super User A Southern California video production company has taken over programming screens in McDonald’s locations throughout Los Angeles, driving a digital OOH network that tries a very different spin on dining area screen networks. The big difference with America’s Community Network is programming that is predominantly original and all focused on the people, places and character of …
