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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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E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum

The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays  – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, which are provided to visitors. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:14 PM

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Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags

I was in New Orleans for a few days last week, and felt lucky to have the time to tour the National World War Two Museum that has become a huge attraction in that city. It has been around for a few years , and recently added some new digital wrinkles I thought were worth sharing. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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Digital Trends Showcase Touts Possibilities For Sensor-Driven Video Walls

Andy McRae of Dot2Dot explaining the sensor-driven video wall. I’ve been aware of the Digital Trends Showcase that’s been running for a few years now in Toronto, but schedules have never allowed me to go see what it was all about. […]

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Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:23 PM

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Disney Uses AR On Singapore Streetscape To Market Kids’ TV Channel

This has been done before, but blending some augmented reality with a live street scene at a transit stop remains a pretty good trick for the right digital OOH campaign. In this case, Disney is using a camera pointed down a road in Singapore to create a window beyond a digital transit poster. […]

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Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Levin, Four Winds Interactive

This week I’m speaking with David Levin, the co-founder and a bunch of other titles at Four Winds Interactive, a content management software and services company based in Denver. David and I sat down for a chat last week in the Four Winds’ offices, a day before his company’s second annual Forward conference, which attracts a lot of hardcore customers and prospects. […]

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Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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16:9: Face Pattern Tech Used In Fun Interactive GMC Campaign

The whole serve-content-based-on-who/what-is-in-front-of-a-screen thing has never really taken off for the video analytics people, but here’s a fun campaign that does a nice job with the technology. […]

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Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:58 AM

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16:9: Virtual Coloring Books On Streets Of Sydney And Melbourne

If were walking a busy downtown street, would you stop at a digital poster to do some virtual coloring? That was the premise and attraction of a relaunch campaign in Australia last month for a mineral water/juice product that’s part of the Coca-Cola family. […]

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Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:27 AM

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16:9: Key Copy Kiosk Shows What Interactive Retail Should Really Be About

Here’s a great example of an interactive screen solution, coupled with a machine, that goes to the heart of what any of this “customer engagement” stuff should be about – making something faster, better and easier for consumers. In this case, it’s a kiosk that can copy a house, car or other key in a matter of seconds, on demand. […]

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Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:47 AM

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16:9: Lock Down Your Tablet Kiosk Screens With These 5 Easy Tips

Guest Post: Jon Sproule, Armodilo Display Solutions This blog had a post up recently that showed how easy it can be for pranksters to interfere with your carefully considered tablet kiosk deployment. Jon Sproule We think about and protect tablet-powered kiosks all day long, but on the hardware side. It’s not a surprise when security gets overlooked on the software side. […]

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Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:00 AM

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LinkNYC Shuts Off Web Tablets To Stop, Ummm, Problematic Browsing

It should not surprise anyone who’s been on the operations side of digital signage networks that the flashy and very expensive interactive information stations that are replacing payphones around the sidewalks of New York are running into problems with the general public. […]

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Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:26 PM

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Connected Screen Demo Shows How Interactive Digital Signs Can Be Contactless Payment Terminals

The transaction processing company Ingenico is demonstrating a slick “connected screen” concept at the Toronto International Film Festival that allows people to just wave their Visa credit card at an LCD screen to make a donation. […]

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Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:00 AM

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16:9: Canada’s Busiest Highways Get Interactive At Travel Centre Stops

If you’ve even driven the 401 highway that runs up from Detroit through Toronto and almost to Montreal, you’ll have been thankful there’s a set of travel centres that provide the essentials to motoring: gas, coffee and clean restrooms. About 500,000 people a day pull in to these centres across the province. […]

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Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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Conductive Ink Turns Pizza Hut Box Into Interactive DJ Station

Via TechCrunch I’m a big proponent of mixing mediums, like using print to frame and make digital displays much bigger. And I like tech that turns a medium upside – like the conductive ink developed by UK startup Novalia. The company uses paper thin printed membranes as the touch overlay and microcontrollers as the smarts. […]

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Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:05 PM

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Four Winds Previews Next Month’s Forward Conference In Denver

Four Winds Interactive is holding what will be its second, now annual educational conference next month in Denver, and has released the agenda and overall plans for the Sept. 21-23 event. I went last year and thought, for a first stab at it, the event was quite good and useful both in terms of the sessions and the networking. […]

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Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:27 AM

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