I’ve consulted with shopping mall groups, and they often talk about their aspiration to use digital to create memorable experiences. A lot of what I have seen done in malls is not all that memorable, and ultimately driven more by getting incremental ad dollars from big screens on walls. […]
A UK company has released a plug and play device that allows digital signage and interactive solutions companies to easily develop immersive screen projects that use haptics technology. The new STRATOS Inspire uses arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands, creating the sense of touch in mid-air. […]
Via Curbed LA One of the more recognizable buildings in downtown Los Angeles – the Walt Disney Concert Hall – is getting projection-mapped later this month to celebrate the start of the LA Philharmonic’s new season. […]
No new podcast this week … sorry. I had two postponed interviews last week, combined with a short work week and then me spending two of those four days in a succession of airplanes getting to and from a client. I’m kinda remote now, and so are they. […]
This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. […]
This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. […]
Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, but the more pedestrian stuff that does the whole right message/right time thing. […]
Digital plays a modest but important role in a new exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, with Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11 recalling the sporting world’s response after the 9/11 attacks. […]
If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he calls parametric data sculptures for public art spaces. […]
We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not saying anything. […]
The folks over at the boutique retail tech and experience consultancy HighStreet Collective have launched what will be a quarterly report measuring the top 12 technologies that are currently being used in brick and mortar retail – showing what’s getting some traction and what’s just not happening. […]
A new projection-mapping attraction launches today in New York, a multimedia experience called Dream Ship DestiNY that makes visitors feel like they’ve found their way on to a classic ocean liner, travelling to Manhattan. […]
A San Francisco start-up called Grabb-It is trying to make a go of a Digital OOH advertising model that puts pico projectors in the back of ride-share cars that beam ads on to a rear passenger window. The ads show up on windows because of a transparent film overlay added to the window. The spots only run when the Uber or Lyft or whatever does not have an active fare. […]
The lobby of the newly opened Walter Athletics Center at Northwestern University in Chicago has a giant vertical LED wall, as well as what looks like large tiled (and possibly interactive) flat-panel display walls to the sides. The facility, which opened August 1st, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan at the school’s Evanston campus. […]
Guest Post: Jill Perardi, Visix Jill Perardi When it comes to wayfinding options, interactive signage is the most flexible and powerful way to go. But each location is different and presents unique challenges. Before buying anything, think it all out and come up with a good plan to help make the process as smooth as possible: 1. […]
