There were lots of “Ooohs” and “Aaaahs” when Planar started showing its transparent OLED displays about a year ago, but also some less enthused “Ohs” when it became apparent a 55-inch screen cost $15,000. So the question has begged since then – are many end-users buying the things? Answer – yes. […]
Shenzhen-based PC manufacturer Giada has announced a new fanless and energy-efficient mini PC aimed squarely at the digital signage market. The Giada F105D uses Intel’s latest generation Apollo Lake processors and has a built-in Intel HD graphics graphics processor that allows up to 4k on two displays at the same time, the company says. It uses six watts of power. […]
Via Retail Design Blog I have mixed feelings about an interactive virtual dressing room-ish display set up at the new Berlin flagship store of apparel retailer Superdry. Put together by London-based SeymourPowell, it’s touted as an interactive “smart mirror” but the display is not a mirror and doesn’t use mirror glass … so, umm, it’s not. […]
Even digital signage nerds miss industry stuff right in front of their eyes. When I was in New York a few weeks ago, I finally had a chance to see the flashy Microsoft store on 5th Avenue, at 53rd, just down from Trump Tower. I was immediately looking inside at the visually dominant back video wall, and the near seamless digital side walls. […]
I’m not quite sure what all these projects are about, or where they are located (other than China), but they look very nice. These are shots supplied by the Shenzhen-based LED manufacture Gtek. […]
A Daktronics display will be the pièce de résistance for the upcoming Piccadilly Circus revamp in Central London. The company has now confirmed that it will be supplying the giant outward-curved display capable of true 4K video production, that will form part of the redevelopment. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage I just got really upset. I bought a “classic” pinball machine for the office. It’s one of those machines with no electronic boards at all, where everything is mechanic. […]
I’m still at it today and tomorrow, and maybe even Friday – but my guess is a lot of industry people are already in holiday mode, or imminently so. With that in mind, I wanted to get a note out while there are still people at their desks, and reasonably sober. […]
Deployment is a huge part of any substantial digital signage project, but it’s not a side of the business that gets a lot of attention. Jacob Horwitz started, runs and owns one of the biggest pure-play digital signage deployment companies out there – INSTALLATION & SERVICE TECHNOLOGIES, or IST. […]
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! […]
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 footprint. […]
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, with interesting results. […]
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 and forth across a pair of 33 square metre backlit ad displays. […]
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. Exactly. […]
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 put together by Milan-based D+D Group. […]
