Here’s a great reference case for how graphics, fixturing and displays can be pulled together to drive a lot more impact in retail than a screen on its own can typically do. NYC jeweller David Yurman sells a collection at Saks Fifth Avenue, and has had built a custom-fabricated display as a showcase. […]
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. […]
This is cool. The lighting division of the tech multinational Philips is testing new technology that enables highly accurate, anonymous indoor location and navigation using nothing but banks of overhead LED lighting to inform a smartphone app. […]
I have two distinct thoughts about a new monster-store in the Dallas area called Nebraska Furniture Mart, which a7 560,000 sq. ft. is big enough to house three Walmart Supercenters inside. […]
So how do shoppers really use digital tools in-store, versus the many assumptions out there? […]
A start-up called AudioStreamTV is taking another crack at getting the sound turned up at countless sports bars and hotel and airport lounges by using speakers and ear buds of smartphones. The company has developed an app called Tunity which grabs network audio feeds and makes them available through the cloud – so users can zero in on that feed and hear what broadcasters are saying. […]
Apparel retailer Diesel opened a flagship store in Rome last fall that included an entry area dominated by an immersive video wall running content from a German digital artist. The abstract digital display, reports GDR UK, “draws from geographical data taken from maps of Rome. Its colour, growth and movement is based upon the use of #rome and #POSTroma across online sites. […]
It seems like all the display guys are branching out lately. First it was software and now display types. You may think of Atlanta-based NanoLumens as a company squarely in the business of making lightweight, skinny and modular LED displays, but now they’ve announced a clear transparent surface you’d liken to 3M’s Vikuiti film surfaces. […]
I did not realize the whiz-bang Lowes Holoroom augmented reality design thingie that is being tested in some Canadian stores was just up the road from me at the local DIY palace. But I bumped into it this weekend in my quest for other home repair stuff. Lotsa PR buzz. […]
The blended entity that is Creative Realities and Wireless Ronin has filed its 2014 revenues and announced the departure of longtime CRI CEO Paul Price. “We thank Mr. Price for his service, wish him well in his new endeavors and have full confidence in the senior team at the company for a seamless transition,” says Alec Machiels, Chairman of the Board. […]
Photos by Thomas Story and Henniker Photography Last fall the skin care firm Murad opened a 1,500 square-foot storefront on W. 3rd Street in Los Angeles that serves as the brand’s global flagship retail location. For a little shop it has a LOT of digital – and nicely executed at that. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Technology is becoming the order of the day in China, as the 2015 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands report revealed (Source: Millward Brown). […]
