Portland-based Planar Systems has released a cool little mobile device application that makes it easy for systems integrators, architects and project teams to work out and visualize how a video wall might look in a specific environment and space. […]
GUEST POST: TARA PARACHUK, ARMODILO If you are a retailer looking to engage your customers with digital technology, NRF was the place to be! Retail’s Big Show 2016 showcased a variety of ways retailers can learn more about their customers from their current emotional state to every possible type of analytics you can imagine. […]
Four Winds Interactive did a very nice, polished job last fall with Forward, a two-day conference in hometown Denver that went well beyond the typical software company user conference. It was education instead of indoctrination. I went to it, and learned a lot more than what was on the company’s product roadmap. […]
Traveling through airports during the Christmas holiday period can suck the joy out of just about anyone – between line-ups, delays, many more rookie travellers than normal and general mayhem. So the people at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport put together an on-premise Happier Holidays campaign that uses temporary digital displays, among several tools, to inject some fun. […]
The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with a program that runs through the end of January. […]
Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. […]
Regular readers will be solidly at the “Yeah, Yeah, Dave, got it” stage when it comes to me going on about the importance of marketing videos in a video driven business (and how few do it). But, I’ll keep going on about it until it becomes commonplace, instead of rare. […]
On my way back from Dubai this past weekend I had a layover in Frankfurt, VERY early in the morning. It was enough time ti take a train into the city and have a look around. […]
I don’t tend to write about temporary projects or plain old video walls, but a video wall put in place for Canadian broadcaster CTV’s upfront (programming showcase for advertisers and media) went very big, and shows what is possible, The Bell Media/CTV’s Upfront in June 2015 used one of the largest video walls ever built in North America – 108 ultra narrow bezel NEC 55-inch LCDs. […]
Here’s a bit of a statement by LG about its commitment to large-format OLED displays – 280 55-inch OLED displays in a couple of curved, suspended video walls in the terminal at Seoul, South Korea’s Incheon International Airport. […]
The CBS Morning News had a piece this morning about new technologies that have spruced up the 53-year-old Space Needle tower in Seattle, and the element that caught my eye was something it calls the SkyPad. Developed and guided by the local studio Belle & Wissell, the SkyPad interactive wall is a set of tiled touch displays on a wall on the observation deck level of the landmark structure. […]
I’m speaking at a Customer Engagement Technology Conference in a couple of weeks in Dubai. It’s one of those places I’ve wanted to see, and also a place that I gather has a lot shaking in the digital signage sector. My talk is Nov. […]
I had about three hours last week to zip up and down the aisles of Ad:Tech New York, and three hours was plenty if you are not in the online ad business. It’s all about ad networks and programmatic advertising and things like predictive marketing, of which I know absolutely zip. […]
Part of the renovations done at the Fremont Street, San Francisco offices of CRM software giant Salesforce was a vast hi-rez LED wall on the lobby wall outside the elevator banks. […]
The guy who runs Google‘s ChromeOS AND Android programs has followed up on a tweet last week and in more detail reiterated that despite the buzz in tech blogs, ChromeOS and therefore Chrome devices are not getting killed off. […]
