Turns out the screens are as bad as the germaphobes expected – with fecal material traces (aka poop) showing up on every screen tested. Among the nasty stuff found on screens: Coliforms, Staphylococcus aureus pseudomonas, Listeria, Enterococcus faecalis, Proteus and Bacillus. […]
Here’s a great example of projection mapping being used to tell a story, with the subject of that story doubling as the digital canvas. A specially constructed hangar at Aerospace Bristol in England is home to the last Concorde supersonic passenger jet ever built, and the long, lean jet itself is used as the projection surface for a 12-minute media piece about the Concorde program. […]
Transparent LCD has been around for years now, but UK-based Crystal Display Systems has put a different spin on their use by marrying a transparent screen with a regular light-backed LCD in the same display case. […]
User group meetings are not something I normally write about, but the UK software provider Tripleplay has arranged for a very cool venue for its annual meet-up with end-users and partner vendors – Stamford Bridge, the home of pro football (soccer) team Chelsea FC. The central London venue is a client site. […]
This is an interactive game that has LEGO tied in with the Uk launch of Solo: A Star Wars Story, the latest in what seems like a steady drip now of Star Wars movies. […]
UK-based Futuresource Consulting has pushed out new research focused on the corporate market and looking at the rise of technology such as digital meeting room signs. […]
This is apparently May The 4th Be With You day – a fun Star Wars riff on the famous movie line, May The Force Be With You. May 4th – May The 4th – May The Force … get it? […]
This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. […]
Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose. Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on demand. […]
ScreenCloud – Booth 2166 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? We’re all about helping businesses achieve their goals using digital signage to visualize the content that’s important to them. We’ll have Corporate Comms expert Brad Parler talking about effective content. […]
Signagelive – Booth 1736 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? At DSE this year we will be demonstrating the ability for our Signagelive platform to integrate with a range of third-party solutions delivering; data driven menu boards, queue management, room booking and content shaped by audience analytics. […]
This is a terrific, very different way to use real-time data to drive home a compelling message for a brand – in this case a UK insurer that wanted to make small businesses aware of cyber-risks. […]
Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology Richard Murton The healthcare industry sees large numbers of people walking in and out of their doors on a regular basis, and of course, each and every one of them is completely different to the next. […]
Hospital and clinic rooms are rarely places people like hanging around, and digital signage has long been seen as a way to distract and entertain patients, and their family or friends. A London-based solutions provider called OOHScreen has a very different take on what digital signage should look like and do in those places. […]
By far the busiest post on the Sixteen:Nine blog is one that lists the many options out there for free, kinda sorta free, or free to start with digital signage CMS software. One of the oldest – and among the few that are legitimately free – is Xibo, an open source digital signage solution that started as a student project in the UK many years ago. […]
