These Digital Screens Spit At You September 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a public art installation somewhere in Switzerland. A water spout is sync’d with the content so it looks like the subject on the screen spitting out water is flying off the screen. Best opinion I can muster is: Hmmmm …. A public installation in Switzerland by Marck. Contact us for more info or …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Fahlman, Telemetry September 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. That’s exactly, though, the back story on Telemetry, a Vancouver, BC start-up that grew …
Texas A&M Pimped Out Its Football Locker Room With Digital Signage, Too … In 2014 September 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes So when I saw video of the University of Texas Longhorns’ football locker room, with LCD screens over every locker, it occurred to me that this was going to be something that would get emulated by other schools. Turns out that U of T borrowed on something another big football program, Texas A&M’s Aggies, did …
Real-Time Data On UK Billboards Reminds Traffic-Jammed Motorists They Should’ve Taken Train September 11, 2017 by Dave Haynes Virgin Trains launched a dead-simple digital OOH campaign in the UK this week that very effectively uses real-time data to tell motorists crawling along choked motorways that’d they’d likely have been far wiser to take a train. The campaign for the railway, conceived by Virgin Train’s agency Anomaly and pulled off by the digital shop …
How Interactive Digital Signage Enhance Customer Experiences September 11, 2017 by DanDawson Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology These days, the importance of engaging with customers is widely recognized – as is the ever-increasing difficulty of doing so. The simple fact of the matter is that customers are becoming highly expert at deploying their own, internal “anti-spam” filters, to deal with all the calls on their attention …
Holographic Display On Coming Smartphone A Precursor To Larger Digital Signage Versions? September 8, 2017 by Dave Haynes A spin-off from HP Labs is working with RED – the high-def digital camera guys – to release a smartphone that features a holographic display – a glimpse at tech that also has digital signage touted as a use-case. Red Digital Cinema is working with Leia Inc on what’s being billed as the world’s first …
Cruise Line Uses 25-Foot LED Vortex As Centerpiece September 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting example of how three-dimensional visuals and crazy idea can be baked into content and served up on a very unusual display canvas – in this case the central court of a monster cruise ship. This is a 25 foot tall vortex-shaped LED column in the atrium of the Carnival Vista, a ship …
Who Says Digital Signage Can’t Be Gorgeous? September 1, 2017 by Alan High Guest Post: Jeff Doud, MaxMedia The bar is set so low. Everywhere you go, we are assaulted by clutter or what I would call “environmental hubbub.” Public spaces, retailers, malls, and lobbies often assume that their messaging or offers are the single most important component of their content strategy. I argue that this is the …
Video Download: Post This Hurricane Harvey Fundraiser Spot On Your Network August 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes Brian Nutt and his team at Louisville, KY software and solutions shop Codigo have put together a video available for any network operator to download and run on their own screens, as a Hurricane Harvey fundraiser. The 20-second video clip encourages donations to the American Red Cross. You can preview it on this page. To …
A Robotic 3D Video Wall … From 1990 August 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip @johnbirchman We told you yesterday about a 1967 robotic video wall (well, sorta … it was photo slides, not videos). Here’s another example of a big video wall doing the robotic three-dimensional thing Coca-Cola has unveiled in Times Square. This one is from 1990, at the Epcot (Disney) theme park in Orlando. The …
