GUEST POST: Tim Griffin, Userful We all understand the Wow Factor that comes from a beautiful, people-stopping video wall. But few people, even within the digital signage industry, understand what’s going on behind those bright, shiny screens. […]
It took a little chasing, but I’ve managed to track down a Panasonic contact familiar with its recently announced OpenPort program – which is System on Chip commercial digital signage displays running Android. […]
At last fall’s SEGD xlab event in New York, Jennifer Davis from Planar announced a contest aimed at generating great concept uses for transparent OLED screens – technology Planar had just started showing off. A few months later, Planar announced today the winner of the Clear Concept Award – Fivestone Studios, a creative services agency based in Nashville, Tenn. […]
You build up a lot of contacts over 17 years of working in signage, and a decade writing a blog. But you don’t get everyone into a contact list. I have been trying, since returning from ISE in Amsterdam, to find a contact at Panasonic – N. […]
Hat tip to Rob Gorrie for flagging this via LinkedIn … Here’s an interesting take by Samsung on flagship store design – a new one that doesn’t actually sell stock any product. Called Samsung 837, the store opens today at 837 Washington Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. […]
LG Electronics USA, Booth #1210 I thought LG had a particularly strong presence at the recent ISE show, and I expect that while it won’t be anything near that scale, the company will nonetheless have some impressive product on display. Here’s what the company says visitors will see … Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? […]
This is a massive video wall built in the new Hongqiao Central Business District in Shanghai, China. The 36 screens are being driven by IAdea’s recently announced AnyTile solution – which uses something it calls Distributed Graphics Architecture to push 36 screens with a total of 18K x 4K resolution. […]
Last week at ISE I spent about 30 minutes getting a detailed demo from an Italian company, Tailoradio, that had developed a signage platform called VideoMood to operate on Philips’ new D-Line series of displays, which have embedded players running Android. I was impressed with what Luca Santini, Tailoradio’s CTO, walked me through with the newly minted system. […]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced development of an “aerial display” that is touted as being able to project images measuring approximately 56 inches diagonally into midair. The Japanese company suggests the technology would be commercially available by 2020, and be relevant to use cases like digital signage and entertainment. […]
Daktronics, Booth 818 Here’s what Tyler Campbell of Daktronics says people should look out for from the LED display company when they’re at Digital Signage Expo in a few weeks: Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? […]
Online shopping giant Amazon is reportedly planning to build out a global e-commerce and supply-chain network that would – among many, many things – make buying digital signage hardware from China about as easy as ordering consumer items. […]
Integrated Systems Europe is one big trade show – far bigger than InfoComm and many multiples the size of Digital Signage Expo. It has a similar flavour to InfoComm, in that you have lots of companies showing what they do in other areas of pro AV – like microphones and conference systems – that have few ties to signage. […]
One of the technologies I want to have a good, long look at next week at the big ISE trade show in Amsterdam is indoor LED – which in the past year has gone from something of a fringe, wildly-expensive product to a mainstream display option marketed by numerous traditional display manufacturers. […]
Real estate firms putting screens in street-side windows is not new, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a spin on it like this letting agent (apartment rentals agency) in London. Kings Lettings’ new office in Shepherds Bush has a couple of high-bright 55-inch Samsung smart sign panels in the window, but each has a trio of 15-inch panels running an Android player below them. […]
Food giant Nestle has something called DAT (Digital Acceleration Team) centers in key offices globally – facilities designed to monitor consumer attitudes about their brands using social media and data visualization, and also train and energize staff from other offices. A new DAT has gone live at a Nestle office in Jebel Ali, in the south end of Dubai. […]
