Double-sided LCD displays are definitely not new, nor are super-skinny ones, but the UK display company Allsee Technologies has launched a version that takes a cue from a big competitor, Samsung. The company’s new “Hanging Double-Sided Window Displays” have two different levels of brightness for the screens facing outside and into a business. […]
Readers will be shocked to read that I don’t know a lot about skateboards or skateboard retailing. Shameful, but true. I did not know, for example, that they can look like over-priced kitchenware stores, or a forgotten part of the Caesars Palace resort in Vegas. […]
The research firm IHS Markit says OLED display costs are expected to drop as technology that effectively prints the displays matures and production capacity expands. Inkjet-printed (IJP) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to enter mass production next year, with capacity expected to rise as much as 12X from 2020 through 2024, says the business information provider. […]
The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. […]
The Toronto area start-up that is trying to bring the gig economy to pro AV jobs has done a bit of a pivot, moving from a pay to play model to one that is now free and will go freemium. AV Junction has announced the launch of a free web platform designed to match pre-vetted AV professionals with contract install and service gigs, as well as function as a full-time jobs board. […]
This is a newly installed and fired-up direct view LED video wall in the lobby of a new office tower in the financial services-dominant downtown of Charlotte, NC, spotted on Linkedin. The thing is a beast – large enough to deliver 4K visuals even though the pixel pitch is 4.7mm, which is almost 2X the pitch of displays that are called fine pitch (usually 2.5mm or tighter). […]
This is a good example of how using data, and a sense of humor, can help generate a hyper-targeted, event-driven and cheeky out of home campaign. […]
This is a look inside the new global HQ for McDonald’s, which has come in from the Chicago suburbs to an older building in the West Loop area that was previously home to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. The space looks beautiful, and has numerous experiential interactive displays put together by the Chicago design shop Leviathan. […]
The Digital Signage Federation is holding a summertime mixer in New York City on July 17th at the offices of the creative studio C&G Partners. The mixer will run for two hours, starting at 5 PM. There will be drinks and light hors d’oeuvres. […]
Well this is pretty interesting – digital signage CMS companies chasing the food services businesses have long known they had many competitors, big and small, but they probably never envisioned Coca-Cola being among them. […]
Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, has released an ambitious set of high level plans for a smart city district to be built on Toronto’s waterfront. […]
Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve You may have read about the Raspberry Pi 4 in the news. It’s big news for the whole world, from children’s code clubs, to office desktop use, to industrial applications such as digital signage. Bryan Crotaz At Silver Curve, we adore the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Pi micro computer. […]
I get an email from Google each morning that is a summary of the news headlines it scrapes on the search term “digital signage” and I’d say 95% of what it finds is useless. It does not return stuff from Sixteen:Nine because this deemed “just a blog” and carries opinions. […]
This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. […]
The Spanish La Liga football team Athletic Bilbao celebrates more than a century of top-level competition in a museum on the grounds of San Mamés stadium, where it plays home games. The museum in Bilbao has been equipped with more than 30 Christie laser projectors, using short throw lenses, to tell the club’s story through the years. […]
