Massive LED billboards are by no means found only, these days, in world capitals and insane places like Las Vegas. This is a an 1,855 square metre LED wrapped around a building in the south China city of Shantou, up the coastline from Hong Kong (if that helps). […]
This is an interesting take on using digital signage to deal with lengthy dwell times in a fast casual restaurant setting: an interactive display patrons can monkey with while their custom pizza bakes in the nearby oven. When Zablong Pizza opened in Charlotte, NC earlier this year, the operators wanted an interactive experience from the time people walked in. […]
Boston’s city hall plaza has what is being touted as the first e-paper wayfinding sign in the United States – a 32-inch electronic paper display that is daylight-readable and powered by solar. The ruggedized sign, mounted in a totem on the plaza, is aimed at providing visitors with information on local events and help residents and visitors locate nearby landmarks. […]
Digital Signage Expo is planning an informal tour and mixer on the Queen Mary cruise liner, which has been a part of the Long Beach, CA waterfront for many years as a working museum hotel and restaurant. The August 10th event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the ship. […]
This is a massive new interactive video wall at the newly renovated Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It’s a 16- by 12-foot interactive media wall that prompts visitors to explore, collect, and save their favourite objects from the museum’s collection, using the museum mobile app. […]
A few conversations in recent weeks have reinforced a conclusion I made some time ago about software and solutions companies in the digital signage business: they need to get vertical. Many companies, particularly the smaller ones, badly need to find a vertical market and make it their own. Being a generalist, in a field crowded with generalists, could be deadly. […]
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit Concerns about subway riders being dangerously distracted by their need to do whatever the hell they do with the red-hot Pokemon Go augmented reality mobile app has compelled MTA New York City Transit to start running safety messages on its On The Go Travel Station kiosk network. […]
So, you’ve been told you’re now in charge of your company’s first digital signage project, and having pounded “digital signage” into your browser’s search bar, you’re scouring the web looking for direction and advice. Digital signage doesn’t look all that complicated. Screens on walls. […]
This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. […]
Just had a look at the stats and the 16:9 Podcasts series is now past 21,000 downloads. The host site shows far less than that in its count, but way more people pick up the RSS feed via iTunes, Google Play and podcast apps like PocketCast. Counting total downloads is a bit inexact, but 21K seems to the number after the series went live in early May. […]
Working in tech is always a bit of a rollercoaster— namely because patterns seem to keep on repeating. Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud Mark McDermott Back when I began to create websites in the late 90s I found I could create a website that had the time on it. So I put this clock ‘feature’ on a few websites. […]
The US denim jeans brand True Religion has opened a new small footprint, digital-heavy store concept on London’s Carnaby Street. […]
This week, I am speaking with Vincent Encontre, the CEO of the Toulouse, France-based interactive software firm Intuilab, which has a great product for reducing the time, cost and complications of getting interactive touchscreen projects together. Encontre talks about the company’s roots, servicing companies like Airbus, and how it pivoted into interactive digital. […]
The research firm IHS has pushed out new data suggesting the global market for digital signage and professional displays is now growing at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3 percent, with 4.4 million units moved last year and 7.7 million expected to move by 2020. […]
Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit Highly successful digital signage campaigns don’t spring into the world fully formed, like Athena from Zeus’s forehead. Instead, they require careful planning. Irfan Khan An example of this is a newly installed digital signage display at the San Francisco International Airport. It’s bringing in sweet profit increases at See’s Candies. […]
