This looks and reads like a hardcore pro AV nerdfest – a networking and education event next month in Anaheim with the call to action of traveling to the 9th dimension at the NitWit Nonagon. Ummm … OK??? […]
This week I’m speaking with Florian Rotberg, the managing director at the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis. Florian talks about the background of his company, and his impressions of the global digital signage market. […]
Digital Signage Expo is planning an informal tour and mixer on the Queen Mary cruise liner, which has been a part of the Long Beach, CA waterfront for many years as a working museum hotel and restaurant. The August 10th event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the ship. […]
The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. […]
The Digital Signage Federation is holding another one of its Meet & Greet Networking events next month – an evening function on July 21 at the Microsoft Training Center in Edina, MN, which is suburban Minneapolis. The event will have drinks and nibblies, and feature presenters from Microsoft, talking about personalization of digital signage in retail. […]
I’m up midday at Omnivex‘s offices in the north part of Toronto to do a Q&A webinar on how data can be used to drive digital signage. It’s more of a chat than a formal presentation, and I’ll toss questions at Omnivex President Jeff Collard about how this stuff is done. […]
InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas left systems integrators and visual designers with a vast menu of possibilities for turning just about any surface into a digital canvas. […]
A new conference has bubbled up for the industry this fall, this one called Interactive Digital Signage Technology and slated for Sept. 21-23 in Baltimore. Yeah, Baltimore. […]
InfoComm has released its numbers for the just-ended show in Las Vegas, and they are down just a hair from last year’s show in Orlando. There were 38,833 people registered this year, down from 39,105 in 2015. However, the number of exhibitors hit 1,000 for the first time, up from 950. […]
The more I walked and talked here at InfoComm, the more I was drawing conclusions around what digital signage displays look like in the next five years. First, many or most of the the single displays are going to ship with embedded intelligence on them. Whatever you think of System on Chip displays, pretty much all the major manufacturers are into it, save NEC and Sharp. […]
As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. […]
I have not been on the InfoComm show floor yet, as it doesn’t formally open for a couple of hours and only exhibitors can get in during set-up. But what I am told from contacts and what I have seen through the doors is a sea of LED displays. They are everywhere. […]
I am in Las Vegas this week, where it is a bit hot. This is what my rental car dashboard was telling me for the outside temperature at about 2 PM yesterday – 115 F. So if you are coming here for InfoComm this week, don’t worry about packing a sweater. […]
Not sure what’s up, but lately I’ve been involved in a string of webinars, helping put various companies and organizations. There are at least two more coming up. […]
Several people have asked me if I will be organizing a third version of DSrupted, a conference focused on emerging and disruptive technologies in the signage market. The short answer is No. […]
