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16:9: Chromebox Digital Signage Players Will Soon Double As Bluetooth Beacons

There’s been lots of chatter about the interplay of digital signage and Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons, so it’s interesting to read that signage networks running on Chromeboxes will soon be able to use the players as the beacons, via Google’s emerging Eddystone protocol. That set-up enables Chromeboxes to shoot URLs to smartphones with Bluetooth enabled. […]

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Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:59 PM

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16:9: How To Go Interactive In Digital Signage

GUEST POST: Mark Janke, DeviceWorx There’s a reason so many digital signs out there have fingerprints all over them – consumers expect that pretty much any screen they see and use will be interactive, just like their phones and tablets. But only a fraction of the digital signs now operating in the field are set up for interaction. […]

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Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:02 AM

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Projects: Rockwell Puts Its Merchandising Screens On Rollers

Here’s an interesting digital merchandising set-up I bumped into at my local Canadian Tire store – a big dedicated store within a store zone for the power tool maker Rockwell. What caught my eye were screens on both sides that were set up on roller tracks, so that they could be pulled left or right to get explanations about different products laid out in front. […]

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Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:13 AM

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16:9: Brown-Forman’s Interactive Liquor Wall At HQ

This is a big 3×3 touch interactive video wall designed exclusively for Brown-Forman, makers of Jack Daniels and all kinds of other booze, at its Louisville, Kentucky headquarters. An interactive bottle carousel showcases all the liquor brands, and includes directional audio for what’s described as a multi-sensory experience. […]

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Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: Ireland’s Instillo Launches Android-Driven, HTML5-Powered Audience Measurement Tools

Video analytics tools have been around for many years now – and the key players have changed through the years, with the exception of France’s Quividi, which has been a constant. An Irish company called Instillo has announced its own video analytics platform – Instillo Audience, and changed the proposition around quite a bit in the process. […]

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Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:57 PM

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16:9: The Digital QSR Future Is Now … But Ya Gotta Like Quinoa

A new San Francisco eatery called Eatsa has gone as far as I have ever seen integrating digital into its customer experience – actually removing visible staffing from the mix. Ordering is all done by tablets, payment is all by plastic, a big video wall promotes the overall product and lets customers know order status, and transparent LCDs double as doors to cubbies where you food arrives. […]

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Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM

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16:9: Uniqlo Powers Digital Selfies Using In-Store Screens & WeChat

  Via AdAge The Japanese apparel retailer used in-store displays to interact with the mobile app WeChat to drive its brand in a recent promotion focused on the Chinese market. […]

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Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM

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Macy’s Testing Digital Fitting Room Service As Foil To Online Shopping

Via Bloomberg A former Amazon exec’s startup is running a test in a Manhattan Beach, CA Macy’s that mashes up digital screens, mobile and some old-school warehouse ideas to rethink the shopping experience. […]

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Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:39 AM

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16:9: Turn TVs Into Interactive Signs For $200 With New Gadget

The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. […]

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Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:51 PM

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Projects: iGotcha Serves Interactive Tennis App For Canadian Bank

Customers at select National Bank of Canada branches are getting a taste of pro tennis this month, through a mobile to digital signage interactive promotion put together by Montreal’s iGotcha Media. […]

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Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:59 AM

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Toronto’s IdeaLab Debuts Turnkey Kiosk Rental Offer

Anybody who has sold digital signage product and had conversations with brand marketers has probably had rent-versus-buy questions thrown at them from people who like what they saw, but only needed it for a few weeks, not a few years. That’s stopped many projects and ideas in their tracks, because the options to rent a solution have been very, very limited. […]

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Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:32 AM

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Projects: Retailer Target Debuts Digital-Filled IoT Open House

American mass merchandise retailer Target has opened a connected home store, immediately below a full store, at a San Francisco shopping center – with the aim of putting all the Internet of Things digital thermostats and door locks and so on in context. […]

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Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:19 PM

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16:9: Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage

LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. […]

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Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:08 PM

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Meet Veronica, Revel’s Digital Mannequin

Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. […]

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Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:49 AM

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16:9: Augmented Reality Video Wall Fills French Grocery Carts In Surprising Ways

Via PSFK This is a clever use of augmented reality that happily doesn’t require the experience to happen through the lens of a smartphone screen. The French supermarket chain Système U used gesture cameras, software and a large video wall at a store to deliver a fun way of communicating the origins of some of its key products. […]

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Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:22 AM

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