Drinking coffee that comes out of vending machines tends to be an act of desperation (or utter indifference), but here’s an automated coffee machine that serves up the good stuff. […]
So there I was, making my annual trip to the Manchester derby. It was a bad day all round. I was fleeced for a nice tapas lunch only to find the restaurant was owned by Pep Guardiola and then had to endure being humbled by a City side so superior to United they might as well have been playing Rochdale (sorry Dale). […]
Decathlon is the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, with more than 1,350 stores in 39 countries, but the French company only recently entered the US market. […]
This is what’s called the World’s Largest Space Shop, a renovated 15,372 sq. ft. retail space at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s east coast. […]
Turns out the screens are as bad as the germaphobes expected – with fecal material traces (aka poop) showing up on every screen tested. Among the nasty stuff found on screens: Coliforms, Staphylococcus aureus pseudomonas, Listeria, Enterococcus faecalis, Proteus and Bacillus. […]
This is a new shopping mall – Torrecardenas – in Almeria,Spain, on the south coast, about 200 km east of Malaga (if that means anything to you). The mall developers went very big on direct view LED on a curved wall by the main entry point. […]
Nike late last week opened the doors to what it calls “House of Innovation 000” – a new six-level flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York that is built around making shopping largely frictionless, and uses a lot of screens. […]
Background Mercedes-Benz is a luxury car manufacturer that was originally founded in Germany in 1886. Today they are one of the world’s premier automobile brands. They have over 140 branches throughout the UK. […]
Stumbled across this interesting new product being marketed by Epson – a laser projector that’s set up like a ceiling spotlight, but intended to show full visuals, as opposed to simply illuminating an area. Called LightScene, the $2,500 MSRP projectors look a bit like spotlights, but have 2,000-lumen, 20,000-hour projector engines that can push just a bit more than 720P resolution. […]
Here’s a of glimpses at the ambitious and interesting digital signage implementations happening with the Cinemex moviehouse chain in Mexico. Across the 300 site chain, Mexican integrator Multimedia Corp. has put in 8,000 screens driven by some 1,300 players. […]
NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. […]
This time of year, people’s thoughts turn to the holiday shopping cycle, which spans from Thanksgiving and Black Friday in November through to the New Year. Though just barely over two months long, the time period accounts for a significant chunk of consumer retail purchases throughout the entire year. […]
This is a nice mash-up of queue management and digital signage being used by Quest Diagnostics in more than 2,200 waiting rooms at Quest facilities across the U.S. A custom solution designed by Mood Media integrates the signage solution with Quest’s patient check-in system, so clients can actively monitor their progress while keeping their privacy intact. […]
There’s nothing new about projecting on window film, but this is an interesting, if flawed, take on it – at a c-store in, I think, Turkey. By the looks of things, the projection system is tied to the automated entry door system – so that when sensors are triggered to open the sliding doors, the projector light goes off (so people are not blinded as they walk in). […]
NEC Display has pushed out an interesting case study that shows how an in-store video wall is being used to sell drones. The wall was put in by B&H Photo Video at its massive, always-jammed store on 9th Avenue in New York, near Penn Station and Hudson Yards. […]
