Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. […]
Minneapolis-based software firm Agosto, a big Google Apps partner, branched into the digital signage market a couple of years ago through an in-house spinoff called Skykit – a CMS built around Chrome. […]
A mostly incomprehensible press release from a Chinese hardware and software company out of Shenzhen, called Sysview, sent me clicking through to the company website on the weekend, to try to figure out what they were going on about. I got off that original goal pretty quickly, though, as I starting clicking around and thinking, “Hmmm … this looks familiar … and a wee bit fishy. […]
Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. […]
Google has set up Google Shops in Best Buy stores in four Canadian cities, as a means of enabling consumers to get their mitts on hardware sold mostly online. Google Canada’s “shop within a shop” spaces were officially opened Friday in the Toronto area, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. […]
A European carpooling service is using electronic ink signs, running off solar and connected by 3G, to direct motorists to assigned spots in parking lots. BePooler’s carpooling service generates over 300 shared trips per week (I assume it’s a start-up) and offers preferential parking spaces booked for those who join the service. […]
These seem really clever – old but iconic London phone boxes replaced by interactive stations that are bankrolled by digital OOH ad posters one one of two sides. The stations are being put in by Clear Channel UK, and manufactured by Amscreen, which has come a very long way from the days of putting up butt-ugly hybrid LED readout/LCD displays at the cash counters of UK convenience stores. […]
Via Untapped Cities There is a ton of really well executed tech in a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, which opens tomorrow in guess where. The digital side of the exhibit was put together by Local Projects, which among other jobs did the experiential digital for the 9-11 museum. […]
The specialty display firm Volanti Displays, a spinoff from Digital View, has developed a set of 4K touchscreen panels that are designed to work and easily mount with one of BrightSign‘s higher-powered media players. BrightSign’s new Series 3 XT players have been set up to work with Volanti’s 55″, 65″, 84″ and 98″ 4K panels. […]
The Belgian creative and content shop Seenspire has added social media visualization toolset subscription to its services, called Social Media Wall. The company is hardly the first to offer a means to get Tweets and Instagram messages up on screens, but what’s always been a little different about these guys is their design chops. […]
Nike just opened a new store in New York City’s Soho neighborhood that really pushes the idea of experiential retail – using massive digital visuals and tapping into sensors for real-time feedback. Nike Soho is a five-storey, multi-sport, 55,000-square-foot store at 529 Broadway at Spring Street. […]
ContextMedia has acquired AccentHealth in a deal that makes theChicago-based firm by a big margin the largest player in health care digital OOH ad networks, with 55,000 sites. It was an all-cash deal – no numbers disclosed. For many, many years, AccentHealth was the biggest player in ad networks in places like clinics and hospitals, running content and ads in waiting rooms and beyond. […]
Glasses-free 3D displays is one of those fleetingly cool technologies that just never took off – but there are still companies out there trying to mainstream the tech in digital signage. A Philadelphia-based firm called Stream TV Networks is working with CMS provider Signagelive and the media player firm IAdea on a blended offer built around Stream TV’s Ultra-D 3D displays. […]
I had a chance last week to tour the New York studio and offices for ESI Design, which has done some amazing experiential digital work in public spaces, as well as museums and in retail settings. […]
I was reading a piece this morning about how the ride-hailing service Lyft, Uber’s main rival in the US and Canada, was going to start using a mash-up of beacons, lights and apps to help passengers better connect with their drivers. […]
