When It Comes To Travel Rest, Nothing Tops 3D Headbanging September 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes The whole auto-stereoscopic, glasses-free 3D thing is curious, but it just got weirder with news that now you can pull off a US highway for a much-needed comfort break and rest, and take in some ferocious head-banging. The Travel Plaza TV network – which does its content in glass-free 3D – ran a trailer starting …
Survey: What Content Matters August 26, 2013 by Dave Haynes My friends at the Belgian content startup Seenspire do automated content feeds for networks (as well as custom content), and are working with a university in their country to do some market research. They have collaborated on a short survey that pokes at end-users about what content matters to them, how they use it …
There’s No Content Fairy In Digital Signage August 9, 2013 by Dave Haynes Every so often, I have to look across a table at clients and drop the devastating news on them that there really is no content fairy. The many minutes of original creative and content programming they envision for the shiny new digital signage network they’re planning to light up will not just magically load in …
Projects: 19,000 Sq Ft Of Display And Brilliant Content At Redone LAX Terminal July 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes This has the makings of something really special. The revitalized Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at LAX opens next month with a series of enhancements that will make the technical side of travel better, but also add to the experience of passing through the crazy-busy airline terminal. The terminal will be filled with big, intriguing …
Mood Media Does Content Deal With TripAdvisor June 21, 2013 by Dave Haynes I was talking recently with someone about content and who was out there thinking a little differently about what went on screens, The gas station guys, I said. They are sourcing material from new and different places. I don’t have much enthusiasm for the stuff shovelled from broadcast networks, but I do like the stuff …
Want Great Creative On Your Digital Signs? How About A Renoir? June 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes In the right setting – particularly corporate – the idea of screens doubling as picture frames for great works of art seems pretty appealing. A Danish company, ArtPlayer, has a subscription digital sign feed that enables users to run fine art images in HD on their screens. The company has famous works from all the great …
Transit Screen Arrives, But Is It A Few Years Too Late? May 31, 2013 by Dave Haynes A small company in Washington, DC is trying to expand the footprint for a digital sign application that displays everything a commuter in that market might want to know about getting around. It appears to look and work great, but it’s hard to wonder why people wouldn’t just tap this information on their smartphone. Digital …
Projects: Clorox Promotion Pushes Consumer Photos To LED Board May 29, 2013 by Dave Haynes Clorox recently promoted its new Smart Tube Technology which, I guess, cleans stuff, using a mobile to big-ass digital billboard in Toronto’s big Yonge and Dundas Square are, which is kinda sorta like Times Square. Put together by Titan Outdoor and using Capital Networks’ Audience software – which already drives a pile of the screens …
Video: Virtually Driving With Leap Motion And Street View April 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes My enthusiasm for most gesture stuff is really limited, but the notable exception is with the Leap Motion technology that has now been with developers for several months and will shortly be available on the consumer market. People should be able to buy the little gesture-sensing sticks in late May (make that July), for $80, …
LG Pranks Men At Urinals April 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes This is a new spin on an old trick – visuals of supermodels looking down at men doing their business at urinals – done by LG as a viral video to promote the life-like quality of its display products. The company did a similar thing last year involving an elevator floor that supposedly fell away, …
