Tag Archives: digital signage

MIT’s Flyfire Floating 3-D Display

February 25, 2010 – 3:34 PM

Granted this is just conceptual right now, but MIT’s SENSEable City and ARES Labs have begun a project called Flyfire that “aims to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment.”  The idea is that by programming large quantities of micro helicopters with LEDs, you have a swarm of pixels that [...]

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Intel Retail Digital Signage Concept

January 18, 2010 – 11:13 PM

One of the more interesting things to come out of the NRF convention last week was a retail digital signage proof-of-concept from Intel.

The prototype system combines a translucent holographic overlay display next to a more traditional LCD screen, allowing for different types of interactive content to be delivered on the different screens. The concept demo [...]

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Miele Inspirience Center

December 4, 2009 – 5:06 PM

I recently came across an interesting interactive retail experience in The Netherlands from Miele called the Miele Inspirience Center (I’ll withhold comment on the pun.) Miele manufactures and sells a wide variety of residential appliances and commercial equipment.

Because they are a high-end durable goods maker, the purchase decision for their products is a fairly reasoned [...]

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Electronic Paper used in Lancome Transit Campaign

February 26, 2009 – 3:56 PM

I’ve been wondering when electronic paper technology was going to become commercially viable enough to make inroads into the digital signage space. Looks like the answer is now.

According to BrandRepublic Asia, Lancome is using electronic paper as part of an OOH campaign in Tokyo introducing a new mascara product called Oscillation. The product’s innovation is [...]

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Philips Lumalive

December 9, 2008 – 1:34 AM

This clothing LED system creates an Observation experience that incorporates humans as the canvas for the content. Each piece of clothing runs via a small battery powered USB drive that is connected to a flexible substrate material which is woven into the fabric. The LED can display various playlists of text and animations which can [...]

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