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16:9: Harrods Fills 6-Level Grand Entrance Hall With Fine Pitch LED Ad Walls

Via The Drum The British luxury retailer Harrods has installed a series of large, fine pitch LED video installations that greet shoppers at every level in the store’s iconic six-storey Grand Entrance hall. There are 12 LED screens in various configurations at points in the six floors of the department store’s escalator atrium. […]

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Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:37 AM

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16:9: Does The World Need Interactive Gas Pumps? Clue: No

Via Adweek Is the two to three minutes you spend at a gas pump an tedious, endless ordeal, or two to three minutes you spend absently looking around as the tank fills up? For me, it’s the latter. I survive, somehow. […]

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Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:05 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Phil Lenger, Show And Tell

Phil Lenger of Show and Tell is a busy guy, but he slowed down long enough to sit recently for a chat in his company’s New York offices, near Penn Station. He even offered a sip or two from one of the many, many bottles of seriously good bourbon he has stocked in the corner of Show and Tell’s meeting space. But I behaved myself, and so did he. […]

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Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:13 AM

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What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights?

Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of  its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED lights in the back or around the edges doing things like picking up the dominant color on the screen and creating a halo around and behind. […]

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Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:23 AM

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See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App

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. […]

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Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:25 AM

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Skykit Releases Free Planning Guide For Digital Signage Projects

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. […]

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Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:58 AM

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Google Shops Open In Canada With 3×3 Feature Video Walls

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. […]

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Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 1:17 AM

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E-Ink Displays Used To Assign Parking For Swiss Car-Pool Commuters

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. […]

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Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:16 AM

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16:9: Iconic London Phoneboxes Being Reimagined, Deployed As Ad Posters, Interactive Stations

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. […]

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Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM

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Projects: New NYC Museum Exhibit Goes Heavy On Digital To Tell City’s Story

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. […]

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Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:08 PM

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Volanti, BrightSign Pair Up On Snappy 4K Interactive Displays

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. […]

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Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:27 AM

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16:9: Nike Says It’s Transforming Sports Retail With New SOHO Store

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. […]

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Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:15 PM

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16:9: Companies Still Trying To Mainstream 3D In Digital Signage (Good Luck With That)

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. […]

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Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:50 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Schneider, ESI Design

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. […]

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Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:04 AM

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16:9: What Digital Signage Could Learn From Lyft’s New Beacons And Dashboard Signs

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. […]

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Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 2:35 PM

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