Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Super User This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
First Robotics-Driven Airport Restaurant Uses Nsign.tv To Drive Customer Messaging February 19, 2025 by Super User The Barcelona-based CMS software and solutions firm nsign.tv now has a flashy reference case for existing and prospective customers – a food stall at the city’s main airport that has a robot working behind the counter. The robotic-driven restaurant chain Self now has a mostly unmanned operation in Terminal 1, next to Gate B24. It …
2025 Global Digital Signage Awards List – AI’d Version February 18, 2025 by Super User As a bit of an experiment, I tweaked and cleaned up the spreadsheet I was provided for the 2025 Global Digital Signage Awards, threw this into Claude, monkeyed a little with the prompts, and ended up very quickly with a serviceable story that runs through the winners handed out a couple of weeks ago. I …
Former NEC Displays CEO Bouman Now In Charge At Hologram-ish Startup Proto February 18, 2025 by Super User One of the eyebrow-raisers I read this morning as I started shovelling and sorting my email inboxes was word that the LA start-up that started and leads the niche business of hardware and services for hologram-ish transparent LCD displays has a new CEO – a guy coming over from the far more conventional side of …
Company At Center Of Messy Walgreens Digital Chiller Deal Now Calling Itself CoolerX, And Touting (Of Course) AI January 24, 2025 by Super User A couple of US business publications have had stories up in recent days looking at the mess that has become the attempt to turn the refrigerated cabinet doors in Walgreens stores into media and sales promotions screens. That story has been pretty well-documented, but there are some new details available about how ugly it has …
Longtime Intuiface CEO Vincent Encontre Pivots From Reading Budget Docs To Watching Grandkids Grow Up January 21, 2025 by Super User Happy, happy trails to Vincent Encontre, the longtime CEO of the French interactive software firm Intuiface, who has retired. Vincent has a post up on Linkedin outlining how he has stepped down and is looking forward to doing things that don’t involve budget forecasts and software roadmaps. He also relates the company’s journey, particularly as …
Start-up NetSpeek Uses AI To Make Managing Big Screen Networks Easier January 21, 2025 by Super User A start-up with roots in PC-based digital signage media players has launched a unique new service aimed mainly at pro AV solutions providers and end-users – using artificial intelligence to largely automate and streamline the management and integrity of enterprises that use a lot of screens and other devices. NetSpeek, which comes out of stealth …
ISE 2025 Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Sponsor Profile: StratosMedia January 20, 2025 by Super User It is just a few more sleeps before the 2025 edition of Integrated Systems Europe starts in Barcelona, with the digital signage community kicking things off on the eve of the giant trade show with a Sixteen:Nine networking mixer. The very sold out event – that took all of two hours – happens because of great …
Future Displays: Exploring The Display Technology Landscape Of Today And Tomorrow January 15, 2025 by Super User Who knows what displays will look like well into the future, but what we all see today is pretty much what we’re all going to see in five to 10 years – though their form and underlying technologies are most certainly evolving. And will continue to do so. This Future Displays report started out as …
Italian Solutions Provider M-Cube Now Using AI-Generated Music For In-Store Radio January 14, 2025 by Super User The Italian digital solutions provider M-Cube, one of Europe’s largest pro AV integrators, has started using AI-generated music for in-store radio in the luxury retail market that is its main customer base. M-Lab is described as an AI-powered music catalog designed exclusively for the retail industry, with all the music in M-Lab created using AI …
