Atlanta-based Visix has added an interesting new element to its product offer aimed at corporate facilities and campuses – a brand-able wayfinding app for smartphones that can be tied to bluetooth low energy beacons. The app can be used as an extension of traditional kiosk-based wayfinding or as a stand-alone solution. […]
Colleen Hamilton with colleagues Tim Laughlin and Tom Dunn at a client install. Boston Logan Colleen Hamilton, one of the principal’s behind the digital wayfinding/directory management software firm and consultancy Art of Context, sent along her note on why she’s getting on a plane to Orlando in a couple of weeks. 1 – How many years have you been going to InfoComm? […]
What would be a really good environment to test and tweak retail technologies, and get them in front of major retailers and brands? How about a major mall in a tech hotbed, in a city few people groan about having to visit for a business trip? […]
Here’s a somewhat warped look at the Create Your Taste digital ordering kiosks that McDonald’s is testing in some U.S. outlets. A guy named Moshe Tamssot decided to push the ordering system to its limits – and eat enough to feed a Sudanese village – by pounding the touchscreen + sign on every optional item to its max. […]
This is an interactive flooring selection station for retail that bridges phones and digital signs, from a company called Prendi in Brisbane, Australia. Choices Flooring, Australia’s top flooring retailer, worked with Prendi to develop a custom digital configurator mounted on a purpose-built inspiration wall. The first one was done in 2013 and now the companies are on version 4. […]
How about a little gadget that turns almost anything into a trigger to launch content on a screen? Like a doughnut? A piece of fruit? […]
MVP Interactive is doing a fan activation thing with pro hockey’s New York Rangers – using interactive screens that allow even little kids to get their playoff beard on. Fans can instantly grow their own beard based off a current player’s unique and personal styled beard and long hockey hair. […]
Spotted a pair of digital vending machines at a Delta concourse at SFO. I know the concept or tech is not new, but it was the first time I’ve seen a vending unit in North America that wasn’t specific to a brand, ie Coke. Again, I’m sure they’ve been around for a while, but a first for me. […]
The companies out there that do LCD panel enclosures for advertising and retail generally do a great job with the important engineering bits like heating and cooling, and durability in the face of an ever abusive general public. Where they don’t tend to excel is design. They tend to look like squared-off steel slabs. […]
New York’s MTA subway system is now big enough to merit measurement on Nielsen’s quarterly Place-Based Video Report, with 140 screens in 29 stations in view of some 1.4 million daily riders. The On The Go Travel Station network started getting rated as of Q4 2014, with the idea of establishing audience numbers to sell media. […]
Guest Post: Steve Schildwachter, rVue. Recently, the rVue gang took a field trip to Downers Grove, Illinois, one of the test locations for Create Your Taste, a new initiative from our good client McDonald’s. This is an experience very different from any other McDonald’s. […]
Samsung has been running an interesting video wall/social integration piece at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square that’s buily around driving hype for the company’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S6. […]
The Digital Signage Federation is staging what it dubs a DSF Education Hangout online tomorrow, focused on “What to Look for in Interactive Technologies.“ The 45-minute session at 2 Eastern will be run by Rise Vision’s Ryan Cahoy and feature Vincent John Vincent, from Gesturetek, and Jim Nista from Insteo. […]
Photo: StoreSkin (Austria) More than 15 years in digital signage has, admittedly, left me a little jaded. What can excite a bunch of people barely gets a shrug out of me when I see it or read about it. Sometimes common sense tells you something won’t every really fly – like glasses-free 3D or most of the Stupid People Trick interactive Kinect installs out there. […]
Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. […]
