Samsung Uses Robotics For Transformable Video Walls January 11, 2016 by Super User Digital signage vet Tom McGowan was at CES last week – taking great advantage of avoiding most of the mayhem and high costs, because he lives south of the airport in Las Vegas and knows how to get to and from the LVCC with minimal fuss. He said he was interested in going not so …
Samsung Shows Off Mirror LCDs, Transparent OLEDs At CES January 7, 2016 by Super User I’ve been following all the tech writing coming from CES, and from my narrow perspective, LG seems to be getting more attention than Samsung when it comes to displays. LG has the bendy OLED and the double-sided OLED, and LG has certainly put more of a focus on OLED than its Korean rival in the past …
Worth Watching: Select Videos Up From Four Winds’ Forward Conference January 6, 2016 by Super User 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. The marketing department put …
2016 Preset Mixer Plans Firming Up January 5, 2016 by Super User Digital Signage Expo is now nine or 10 weeks out, and work has quietly been going on in planning the annual Preset Group Mixer – the unofficial kickoff party to DSE week in Las Vegas. I got my first “Hey Dave, can you get us in …” e-mail today, so I figured I’d knock out …
LG Showing Rollable and Two-Sided OLED Displays At CES January 4, 2016 by Super User CES is not in my trade show plans this or most years. The show this week is way too big and busy for my tastes – and the great majority of what’s going to be shown and hyped there isn’t all that relevant to signage. There will be display tech and micro PCs, but there will …
Rollout Starts For LinkNYC Info-stations & Hotspots December 30, 2015 by Super User So how many techs does it take to plant a ruggedized touchscreen on a New York sidewalk? Many many, by the looks of it. The group behind those LinkNYC information stations/free WiFi hotspots/ad totems slated for NYC’s boroughs started installing the first ones this week, and photos have been posted by Civiq Smartscapes, and also …
South Korean Government Pumping $67 Million USD Into Country’s Digital Signage Industry: Report December 28, 2015 by Super User South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will spend 78.9 billion won (or $ 67.3 million USD) to nurture the digital signage industry in that country, apparently seeing the sector as a growth engine. The report, in the Korea Herald, says that the ministry will, through 2018, plans to expand support for start-ups involved in …
Projects: Digital Drives Happier Holiday Travel At Toronto’s Pearson Airport December 28, 2015 by Super User 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. …
A Time For Thanks December 22, 2015 by Super User Unless something pretty big happens, this will be it for posts for a few days. The kids are coming home, and it’s time to slow down and enjoy all the trappings and indulgences of Christmas. It’s also a good time to say some Thank Yous as the year winds down. Thank You to all the …
Looking Ahead TO DSE 2016 December 21, 2015 by Super User The annual Digital Signage Expo is less than three months out now, so it’s time for me to have a look at what’s up with the event this year, as well as start planning the annual Preset Group Mixer. The latter is already somewhat in hand – the venue secure and several sponsors lined …
