It’s been a rough few weeks for the media company Intersection and its LinkNYC “smart cities” ad posters. First, dozens were vandalized and damaged. Now an activist group is duct-taping anti-LinkNYC messages to the screens. […]
Birmingham, UK-based Allsee Technologies has started marketing a digital sandwich board display that’s portable and runs 12-plus hours on a rechargeable battery. The pitch is that these things are easily positioned wherever they need to be, and don’t need to be against a wall to get power, or require a power cord that becomes a tripping risk. […]
This is a tiled LG 2 by 6 OLED video wall built into the lobby wall of an office tower in downtown Vancouver, BC. The displays are set into a bamboo wood wall set against a granite wall. They replaced a physical building directory. […]
LG has announced the schedule for its annual TechTour, with the first roving road show date set for two weeks in Washington, DC. The electronics giant has events planned for: May 14 – Washington, DC July 24 – Dallas Aug. 22 – Orange County, CA Sept. […]
Elo has been doing touchscreens for 40 years – way, way before marketers started cooking up phrases like customer engagement technology. Over that time, the company has shipped more than 25 million units. So Elo knows touch, and interactive. […]
Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and software. […]
Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China increased 10X … in the past year! […]
The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. Wow! […]
I tend to tell PR people I don’t do new hires and appointments stories because analytics clearly indicate 16:9 readers don’t care. But I make an exception for some notable ones. Betsy Larson is now Senior VP of Sales for NEC, getting a bump up from Vice President of Channel Sales. […]
Samsung has formally opened its latest Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Irvine, CA, which is in greater LA, in Orange County. The company already has showroom/conference/event spaces in New Jersey and lower Manhattan, but the 7,500 sq. ft. […]
Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas a few times has probably, at some point, visited Fremont Street – the old school, downtown part of Las Vegas that is even weirder than the Strip. The big feature of that hotel and restaurant stretch is an LED canopy that runs a scheduled multimedia show. […]
Digital OOH street furniture has long been a preferred medium for movie launches, but this is the first time I think I’ve seen them fully adapted to take on the character of a new film. This a mall kiosk in the UK, running on a JCDecaux screen, for a new movie called Detective Pikachu about Pokemons, which are … I’m not really sure. Once again – I’m old. […]
A 41-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the wake of 42 LinkNYC digital OOH/smart city kiosks being vandalized and damaged around five NYPD precincts. The kiosks have cameras and at least one caught the man throwing a large rock at a unit, in daylight and as people walked by. […]
The NYC-focused online publication Gothamist has a post up, with multiple photos, of the beating laid on some 30 LinkNYC smart city ad posters in Manhattan this past weekend. A very cranky New Yorker smashed a series of the big digital display kiosks in the West Village and Chelsea, along 6th and 8th Avenues and across 14th Street. […]
An ambitious project that was intended to generate new revenues for Denver’s airport, and showcase the innovative LED technology of Panasonic, has run into big problems less than two years after it was first switched on. […]
