Projects: Wayfinding Stations As Art In Miami’s Aventura Mall July 10, 2015 by Super User The very upscale Aventura Mall in Miami has added a set of seven interactive directories to help shoppers find their way around the 2.7 million-square-foot facility. There’s nothing all that new about digital wayfinding in malls, but what’s distinct here are custom enclosures designed by architects, by a gloriously named Brooklyn, NY firm, Snarkitecture. …
DSrupted: Mike Pell On Data Visualization And The Age Of Smart Signage July 10, 2015 by Super User I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. Pell speaks regularly about data visualization and has …
US FDA Pushes Back Menu Labeling Requirements By Year July 9, 2015 by Super User Hat tip to Raffi Vartian at Signagelive for flagging this … The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has postponed by a year federal menu labeling requirements, with the FDA saying it needs to provide more clarification on rules and regulations that are not necessarily being warmly greeted by all affected parties. “Industry, trade and other …
Projects: Retailer Target Debuts Digital-Filled IoT Open House July 9, 2015 by Super User American mass merchandise retailer Target has opened a connected home store, immediately below a full store, at a San Francisco shopping center – with the aim of putting all the Internet of Things digital thermostats and door locks and so on in context. It’s one thing, the retailer reasons, to see these kinds of gadgets in …
Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage July 9, 2015 by Super User LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. The App Market pitch is that it brings the smartphone app store idea to digital signage – allowing users to poke around the Enplug App Market and selecting from a variety of content-focused …
DSrupted: Brad Parler On Firing First Shot In Content Revolution July 9, 2015 by Super User Brad Parler has turned the typically bland business of corporate communications on its ears with a content programming model at his workplace – the online retailer Blinds.com – that actually makes people want to look, and keep looking. Instead of text and number lists of performance indicators or employee of the month photos, Parler shot, …
Menuat Puts Creative First With Menu-Board Offer July 9, 2015 by Super User I got into a yelling match at Infocomm last month with a guy named Jeff Charette, CEO of a cool little startup called Menuat. We were hollering at each other, from a foot away, because we were at a big vendor’s networking party and the band was louder, I swear, than Metallica – even though …
Directable Puts Digital Signage On Sony’s Android TVs July 8, 2015 by Super User A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. As with some other Android solutions out there, you get moving on this by getting the TVs, connecting them online, and then hitting the …
Meet Veronica, Revel’s Digital Mannequin July 8, 2015 by Super User Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. The goggles have LEDs in them and …
DSE Extends 2016 Speaker Deadline July 7, 2015 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has extended its deadline for speaker proposals for the 2016 educational conference to the end of this week. The trade show says proposals should align with a set of defined learning tracks: Digital Signage Fundamentals Creative Agencies Pro AV/IT Systems Integrators DOOH Network Operators End Users — Content University End Users — Retail …
