Chilean Bakery Uses Digital Split-Flap Displays For Full Five-Screen Menu Board

October 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes

Most of the flip-disc and split-flap installations I’ve seen – old-school mechanical or digital – have tended to be single screens that are used …

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Rapper Jay Z’s New NYC Store Using Digital Split-Flap Display On Feature Wall

October 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes

I really like split-flap and flip-disc mechanical displays – updated versions of the chattering signs at rail stations and airports that show key passenger …

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Renovated Hugo Boss Store Adds Split Flap Display To Shopper Experience On London’s Regent Street

March 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes

Here’s an example of an electro-mechanical display being used in high-end retail for interesting and different messaging, in this case for a newly renovated …

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New Split-Flap TV Platform Emulates Electromechanical Mass Transport Displays, Without The Moving Parts

September 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes

I’ve always loved spinning and chattering split-flap and flip-disc mechanical display boards, but probably like other people with operations in their backgrounds, tempered that …

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Breakfast Evolves Mechanical Flip-Disc Signs As Kinetic, AI-Driven Artworks

March 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes

If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years …

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390 Little Mirrored Bricks Create Kinetic Display In NYC HQ Building Lobby

November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes

This isn’t really digital signage, but the tech comes from a small Brooklyn creative hardware shop that works around the edges of the industry, …

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Taking Analog Style, And Going Digital With It

November 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes

Here’s a digitized take on those analog flip-flap, flip-disc boards, like the ones coming out of Philadelphia profiled yesterday. The New Zealand wing of …

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New Split Flap Display Adds Digital Spin To Old School Information Signs

November 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes

I’m a total sucker for flip disc displays – electro-mechanical signs that rapidly flip through a succession of characters to convey information in a …

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BMO Uses Flip-Disc Tech For Mobile App-Driven Wish Fountain

April 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes

In an odd twist, here’s a second post in a week about flip-disc technology being used as an alternative to digital screens. The Bank of …

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The Thing I Maybe Liked Best At Digital Signage Expo Was Not Digital Signage

April 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes

It’s slightly weird that the thing I perhaps liked the most on the DSE show floor last week wasn’t digital signage tech in any conventional …

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