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UK’s Ultrahaptics Launches Plug And Play Device For Touch-Free Interactive Screens

A UK company has released a plug and play device that allows digital signage and interactive solutions companies to easily develop immersive screen projects that use haptics technology. The new STRATOS Inspire uses arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands, creating the sense of touch in mid-air. […]

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Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:45 AM

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LED Displays As Street Lamp Digital OOH Signs

I get marketing emails all day, every day, from Chinese LED manufacturers showing me their latest pots and pans – and 99% of them look pretty much the same. I thought this was different and kind of interesting, in terms of application for the digital OOH market. […]

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Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:55 AM

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Shared Office Giant WeWork Acquires Meeting Room Signs Provider Teem

Co-working space giant WeWork is getting into a very distinct, narrow part of the digital signage market, acquiring a Salt Lake City company that specializes in digital meeting room signs and the usage and optimization analytics generated by that software platform. […]

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Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:35 AM

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DC University’s LED Scoreboard Has A Serious Oopsie

Media outlets have heavily over-played this, but it is still an interesting cautionary tale that the scoreboard at the arena for a university in Washington, DC fell onto the basketball court Tuesday afternoon. […]

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Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:38 AM

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Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation

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. […]

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Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:36 PM

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AOPEN Releases Small-Format 15 & 19-Inch All-In-Ones For Win 10, Linux

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. […]

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Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:11 AM

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Stratacache CEO Expects Headcount To Top 1,000 By Early 2019

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. […]

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Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:11 AM

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16:9: Transparent LED And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center

This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. […]

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Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:01 AM

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16:9: Why Big Retailers Like Whole Foods Are Deploying Digital Endcaps And Shelf-Edge Displays

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. […]

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Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:38 PM

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16:9: LCD Display Market Booming, Says IHS Markit In New Tracker Research

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. […]

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Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:41 PM

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Got An Opinion On SoC: Let Me Know Here

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. […]

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Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:41 AM

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Screens Help Tell Sporting World’s Post-9/11 Response In New Exhibit

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. […]

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Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:22 AM

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16:9: Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D

We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not saying anything. […]

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Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:07 PM

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16:9: New NYC Pier 17 Destination’s Atrium Enveloped In Direct-View

The same company that put together the sync’d LED messaging and ad displays at NYC’s busy Fulton Center has done a similar job at the new Pier 17 at the Seaport District in Lower Manhattan. The technology service provider ANC has installed and now manages a new digital media network that includes more than 2,000 square feet of 4mm outdoor LED integrated throughout the complex. […]

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Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM

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16:9: Mega-Mall’s Digital Directories Reduce Search Times From Minutes To Seconds

Metrics on digital signage projects aren’t always that easy to find – sometimes, I think, because the results are shrug-worthy – but here’s an example of interactive directories going into a mega-mall and making a tangible difference in how people find their way around. […]

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Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:53 AM

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