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D2 Sales receives DIGI award

March 20, 2005

MEQUON, Wis. - D2 Sales LLC, manufacturer of custom designed interactive kiosks, signage and environments, is the recipient of the 2005 DIGI Award in recognition of innovation and excellence in the digital signage industry, according to a news release. The award was presented on March 12 at the NSCA Systems Integration Expo in Orlando, Fla., to D2 for its Yahoo! Interactive Bus Shelter project. This is the first year of the annual awards, presented by ActiveLight, a national distributor of advanced displays, projectors and digital signage solutions, and sponsored by Systems Contractor News and Pioneer. The Yahoo! interactive bus shelters feature 42-inch plasma screens, stainless-steel keyboards and ultra-fast thermal printers housed in a weather resistant, secure steel and plastic enclosure that replaces one entire wall of the shelter structure. The unit also features a lighted overhead sign, scrolling ticker, local map graphics and a doorbell that calls out the Yahoo! yodel when pressed. The shelters were created to promote Yahoo!'s new Yahoo! Local service.