The video is almost as silly and overdone as a Michael Bay movie, but if you can put up with all the extraneous stuff you will see how Lamar used vehicle recognition technology to promote the latest Transformers movie this summer. […]
This is the tidy set of menu displays IKEA has at its food service counter in the newly opened store in Sheffield, UK. The displays were put in by Beaver Group and run that solutions provider’s “signage.ninja” software, which I THINK is a front-end gateway with Scala under the hood. […]
LG is using flexible OLED displays – made into a digital palm tree – as the centerpiece of its stand at the annual GITEX consumer electronics trade show and conference this week in Dubai. The OLEDs are open frame (no rigid borders) so they can flex concave or convex. The company has also been heavily showing at different shows an OLED embedded in a suspended sheet of glass. […]
Vesterbacka (left) with Valota CEO Kaijus Asteljoki Finland’s Valota, which makes and markets the Valotalive platform for workplace communications on screens, has made an interesting addition to its advisory board – the longtime global brand ambassador for the Angry Birds game franchise. […]
One of the better known faces in the North American side of the digital signage industry says he is re-tooling his business to focus on education, and wind down consulting work. Lyle Bunn sent me a note saying he’s started something called the Center for Digital Experience (CDX), which is all about end-user education through things like workshops, webinars and panels at trade shows. […]
Seriously busy, seriously dumpy NY Penn Station got a little bit of a digital facelift with the addition of a dozen digital totems in the Amtrak concourse, with the screens providing passenger information, bankrolled by digital OOH ad spots. The station handles a staggering 600,000 passengers a day, so it gets a lot of coveted eyeballs for brand advertisers. […]
A Miami-based media start-up is running a boat along the Miami Beach shoreline that features back to back LED displays – effectively creating a floating billboard. So your relaxing day at the beach can now include big ads for ride-share services and local restaurants wafting back and forth. […]
The Las Vegas office of ClearChannel Outdoor has partnered with the FBI to put material on digital billboards around that city related to the recent shooting massacre. The boards will feature the slogan: “If you know something, say something.” People will be encouraged to call a tip line. […]
UK-based Lloyds Bank has just opened a new flagship branch in Manchester – full of tech and customer comforts – that’s positioned as a re-imagined approach to high street banking. […]
I know very, very little about the inner workings of media players and things like graphic cards, but what I do know is that I have seen enough interactive virtual tours on different devices to know they’re often choppy and sluggish. They’re smooth, usually, when there’s a PC with a dedicated graphics card driving things. […]
Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. […]
We’re at a point with monitors that a 70-inch unit doesn’t even sound all that big anymore, but it’s a bit different when it is a monitor to use as one of many as a video wall. Sharp will start shipping this month a 70-inch display – the PN-V701 – built for 24/7 video walls. […]
GUEST POST: Rebecca Dowden, Crown TV There are so many possibilities when it comes to digital signage content that it can be overwhelming. You may have a portfolio of reusable templates and content but are looking for something new and unique. To help you ensure your digital signage has the highest possible impact, here’s 100 digital signage content ideas, categorized by industry. […]
On the immediate heels of Diversified announcing its acquisition yesterday of MCW, rival integrator AVI-SPL announced this morning its acquisition of one of the largest pro AV integrators in Canada, Sharp’s Audio Visual. […]
Being a best-kept secret in an industry can be deadly for a company, but it’s worked out OK for Neil Farr and his Leicester, England company Working Solutions, which trades under the brand Acquire Digital. For 20 years, the company has been developing a meaty, diverse software platform that will do all the core aspects of digital signage, but also allows for a lot of customization. […]
