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Projects: Instagram Lights Up New HQ With Lobby Displays

Photo: Christophe Wu Via Business Insider Here’s a peek inside Instagram’s recently opened new offices in Silicon Valley, up the road from the main offices of its masters, Facebook. As you can see from the main image, the design by Gensler went big on photos in large digital display clusters in the lobby. The company is also using digital meeting room signs, which is great to see. […]

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Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 7:14 AM

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Taco Bell’s 1st Flagship Store Features 4×4 Social Media Video Wall

The fast food chain Taco Bell has opened its first “flagship” location, a two-storey Taco Bell Cantina on on the Las Vegas Strip – at Harmon Corner,across from City Center and The Cosmopolitan. […]

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Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:01 PM

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16:9: What The Rapid Adoption Rate For 4K UHD Means For Digital Signage

The marketplace, at least in the US and by extension Canada, is going 4K UHD at a rate far quicker than the advent years ago of HDTV. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced holiday season shipments of 4K UHD televisions in the United States are expected to reach 4.5 million units, bringing the total for the year up to 10 million units. That’s up 40% over 2015. […]

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Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:18 PM

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16:9: Maybe Big Indoor LED Canvases Don’t Need To Have Crazy-Fine Pixel Pitches?

I’m in New York for the InfoComm Connections conference today, and I suspect it will be a very interesting day to be in the city, given the events of last night. […]

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Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:49 AM

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Cineplex Digital Media Rolling Out Digital OOH Display Network in Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge Malls

Cineplex Digital Media has announced it won an RFP process to install, maintain and operate a digital OOH display network at 21 Ivanhoé Cambridge shopping centres across Canada. The network involves nearly 230 digital displays at Ivanhoé Cambridge mall properties across Canada. […]

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Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:41 AM

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16:9: Tech Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Merging Augmented Reality And Digital Signage

Via Nikkei Asian Review Monster Asian technology manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has announced its funding of a newly-formed startup aimed at bringing augmented reality into digital signage. […]

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Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:01 AM

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Soofa’s Color Epaper Information Stations Start Deploying On Boston Sidewalks

Here’s one of the first sightings in the wild of a 32-inch color epaper display being used for public information. An MIT Media Lab spinoff called Soofa has started installing public information displays in Boston, running off nothing but solar power and updated using a 3G M2M wireless connection. […]

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Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:38 AM

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Walmart Testing Giant Digital Vending Machine For In-Store Pick-ups

Photo Credit: Field Agent There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. […]

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Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:09 AM

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16:9: Simon Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Interactive Stations Across US Malls

The US shopping mall giant Simon is rolling out a shiny new set of big 65-inch interactive directories to nine shopping centres, using a blend of touch and screen to mobile capabilities like NFC, beacons and text. The units, a press release suggests, also use proximity sensors that make the interactive component “come to life” when a shopper walks within a few feet of the screen. […]

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Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:08 AM

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Sales Beating Forecasts For All-In-One Displays, Sold In Taiwan Costcos

Costco regulars will confirm my experience that all kinds of things turn up on the spartan shelves of the member-based warehouse retailer. But I don’t recall seeing any digital signage products for sale, as they are in Taiwan. That country’s 12 big box Costcos are selling 50-inch all-in-one kiosks, and sales results are so far beating original sales forecasts. […]

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Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:40 AM

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80 Million Experiential Pixels Now Lit Up At Dubai Outdoor Retail Complex

The Society For Experiential Graphic Design has its annual xLab conference on even as I type this, but I’m back at HQ and missing the event (but not missing flying out of NYC on a Friday evening … ugh). […]

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Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM

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16:9: New York Digital Signage Week (Ok, Days For Me)

Halfway through a whirlwind trip in and out of New York for a few events associated with what’s been dubbed New York Digital Signage Week. It’s a compilation of events and cocktail parties and open houses, some that have been on for years, and others that have developed around this DS week theme. […]

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Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:34 AM

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16:9: The Dark Art Of Projection Mapping Now Starts With A 5-dollar Phone App

There was a time, not long ago, when projection mapping was an intensely complicated, labour-intensive art form only high technical, deeply experienced pros could pull off. Now it’s a $5 app for iOS or Android. Well, sorta. […]

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Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:34 PM

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Meeting Room Signs Growth Is Kinda Crazy

Photo Credit: ONELAN Reserva About 18 months ago I put up a post about the handful of options I could find out there for putting little digital displays outside meeting room and conference room drawers. […]

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Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM

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Still Three Months Out, ISE Says 2017 Show Is Biggest Ever

Integrated Systems Europe is still three months, but the organization behind it is already touting how this will be the biggest ISE yet, with a jump in show-floor space, and the number of exhibitors and halls. The trade show, in Amsterdam, will see 135 first time exhibitors and more than 3,000 square metres of additional show-floor exhibition space compared to ISE 2016. […]

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Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:31 AM

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