Here’s another InfoComm attendee, UK-based Tom Milner, Managing Director of the firm Service and Support Ltd., talking about why he’s going to Orlando this year. 1 – How many years have you been going to InfoComm? This is year one, eyes wide open for me! […]
Here’s a great reference case for how graphics, fixturing and displays can be pulled together to drive a lot more impact in retail than a screen on its own can typically do. NYC jeweller David Yurman sells a collection at Saks Fifth Avenue, and has had built a custom-fabricated display as a showcase. […]
Cutter Aviation is the world’s oldest continually family-owned Fixed Base Operator (think airport within an airport) and aviation service company, with ops at eight major airports in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. The company does a range of services for aircraft owners coming in and going out of these sites, as well as sells planes. […]
Here’s one in what I hope will be a series of posts for attendees, and separately for exhibitors, talking about why they go to InfoComm and what they’re looking for when there. This one is from Jim Marascio, the CTO and VP Ops at Charlotte, NC-based solutions provider 11 Giraffes. 1 – How many years have you been going to InfoComm? […]
On the way to San Francisco’s airport after a day with a client 2-3 weeks ago I stopped in at Google for a quick update meeting on what the tech giant is up to with Chrome and Chromeboxes for digital signage. […]
Here’s a somewhat warped look at the Create Your Taste digital ordering kiosks that McDonald’s is testing in some U.S. outlets. A guy named Moshe Tamssot decided to push the ordering system to its limits – and eat enough to feed a Sudanese village – by pounding the touchscreen + sign on every optional item to its max. […]
A boutique market research firm in Sweden, focused on the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine connectivity businesses, has pushed out a report suggesting global shipments of networked digital signage displays grew by 21.7 percent last year. Berg Insight suggests that high growth will continue for the next several years, ticking along at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7 percent. […]
Analyst Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report was pushed out today, and it is, as always, a fascinating look at what consumers are doing online and the trends both in North America and globally. The report comes from the Silicon Valley investment shop Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. […]
Taiwan’s IAdea is releasing a commercial-grade, video wall-ready 4K digital signage player that supports H.265 video decoding, the emerging standard that can cut monster 4K video file sizes in half. The XMP-7300 is a solid-state and fan-less, and housed in a ruggedized quarter-inch thickness aluminum enclosure. […]
The InfoComm people have started a full court press to drive registrations for its Solutions Summit: Digital Signage conference in mid-June, running at the same time as the massive annual pro AV trade show. I am one of the people speaking at the thing, so that should be more than enough for you to drop everything and get on a plane to Orlando. Or not. […]
The LA software firm UCView announced last year its support for the initial Raspberry Pi micro PC, and its developers have now followed up with support for the beefier Raspberry Pi 2. The new software is also completely compatible with the original UC View ARM Caster HD (Raspberry Pi 1). […]
This is an interactive flooring selection station for retail that bridges phones and digital signs, from a company called Prendi in Brisbane, Australia. Choices Flooring, Australia’s top flooring retailer, worked with Prendi to develop a custom digital configurator mounted on a purpose-built inspiration wall. The first one was done in 2013 and now the companies are on version 4. […]
After a second stretch of busy this year that has me pretty much in a fugue state (though tallboy cans of Shock Top snap me right out of it), I’m having a sufficiently slow week that there’s been time to actually plan. Cool concept. Must do that more. […]
Bryan Mongeau, the Vice President of Technology at BroadSign, and a guy who pays a lot of attention to emerging tech, sent along this photo he strayed across online of an ad campaign running on a Times Square LED ad board: Says Bryan: This error is coming from the Azure cloud service, which means someone thought it was a good idea to serve up this sign’s content live from the cloud. Cloud down = sign down. […]
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