The property developer wanted to retain and highlight a medieval passageway that runs through the center of a new office tower development in London – uniquely using live 4K video streaming from a rooftop garden to fill the canvas of what is the largest ceiling-suspended LED screen in Europe. […]
No new podcast this week … sorry. I had two postponed interviews last week, combined with a short work week and then me spending two of those four days in a succession of airplanes getting to and from a client. I’m kinda remote now, and so are they. […]
This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. […]
Taiwan-based digital signage hardware firm AOPEN has released a pair of small format all-in-one touch displays aimed at the self-service and retail market – the interesting twist being their support for Windows 10 and Linux. […]
There’s a bunch of interesting nuggets of information in a local paper’s interview with Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel – most notably that he expects to be north of 1,000 employees within a year. Talking to the Dayton Daily News, Riegel says he’s now at 750, with 320 of them in Dayton. […]
People in the Buffalo, NY-area active in digital signage are getting together tomorrow night in that city for a networking mixer, which I THINK was pulled together by Kevin Cosbey, who does biz dev for Arrow (Seneca). The event is from 6 to 9 pm at EXPO Market, 617 Main Street, in the central district. […]
The Toronto digital signage community is well known for getting together for drinks, but now they’re doing breakfasts, as well. The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) is in the organizing stages of a series of educational breakfast sessions to be held in the Greater Toronto Area. The sessions are intended to provide local members with education, as well as networking. […]
Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, but the more pedestrian stuff that does the whole right message/right time thing. […]
An effective digital signage campaign provides businesses with a great tool for building brand awareness and efficient communication. Advances in technology make it possible to come up with numerous paths to a final solution. The seemingly limitless possibilities tempt companies into diving in before considering every facet of a project. […]
Research firm IHS Markit says the large format LCD display market is booming at the moment, with panel shipments hitting a record monthly high in July 2018 in terms of unit and area shipment. […]
Digital signage management software firm X2O Media is going after its old CEO in a Las Vegas court, claiming his new firm has misappropriated trade secrets. X2O is also claiming, as reflected in filings with the US District Court in Nevada, breach of contract and trademark infringement by Xentiant Technologies and its founder David Wilkins. […]
A Long Island, NY man is using donated time on one of the big LED billboards in Times Square to pitch his need for a new kidney. Bladder cancer survivor Marc Weiner lost both kidneys in treatment, and now requires dialysis to stay alive. His wife’s friend donated time on a 5,000 square foot billboard on 47th Street, which if booked by a media planner would cost $35,000 a month. […]
Getting some great insights from CEOs and CTOs on the current state, pros and cons and future of System on Chip displays – all for an updated special report I am doing with my friends at SignageOS, in Prague. The report should be out in the fall, and we’re looking for as much feedback as we can get on who is using the tech, whether it meets needs, and where it falls down. […]
Digital plays a modest but important role in a new exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, with Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11 recalling the sporting world’s response after the 9/11 attacks. […]
If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he calls parametric data sculptures for public art spaces. […]
