NanoLumens’ White Paper Takes Deep Look At LED In Airports February 1, 2018 by Super User NanoLumens’ skinny-curvy LED display tech has found its way into at least of couple of high profile airport jobs recently, like Singapore’s Changi and Toronto Pearson. The Atlanta company is doing enough work in airports that it has generated a free white paper looking at the opportunity and challenges. “Airport executive teams understand that to …
Big Thanks To The 2018 Digital Signage Awards Judges January 30, 2018 by Super User Twelve judges, under my maniacal chairmanship, scrutinized up to 30 entries each and awarded up to 100 points across six columns to help decide the 2018 Digital Signage Awards Finalists, as well as High Commendations and Category Winners. The winners will all be announced next week at ISE in Amsterdam, at a luncheon. Those folks, …
Video: Interactive Restaurant Table Uses Portable Hologram Projector January 30, 2018 by Super User I spotted this video on Linkedin – a hologram projection thingie touted as being part of the restaurant of the future. It’s interesting, and perhaps one day this sort of thing would get used somewhere, but there are a few things to reasonably note and ask: The video shows the waiter just plopping this puppy …
Get Smart With Automated Digital Signage Applications January 26, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix We all want to be smart. The word smart means showing quick intelligence, but can also mean socially elegant and sophisticated. In project management, objectives are sometimes referred to as S.M.A.R.T., which is an acronym for specific (a targeted area for improvement), measurable (a quantifiable indicator of progress), achievable (specific short- and medium-term objectives), relevant (in line with corporate …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – How OOHscreen Uses Artwork On Video Walls To Ease Patients’ Minds January 24, 2018 by Super User 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. Instead …
Toronto Rail Hub’s ATM Gets Virtual Nature Scene Surround With Fine Pitch LED January 23, 2018 by Super User I’ll be out next week with a report on fine pixel pitch LED, with the key assertion that this tech will grow very, very common in parts of the world other than China and Hong Kong, where it is already everywhere. Here’s a good precursor to what’s coming – a fine pitch surround on an …
Rise Vision Template You Never Thought You’d Need: Do Not Eat Tide Pods January 23, 2018 by Super User Rise Vision has built a content template, based on request from school using its digital signage CMS, to implore what I assume is mostly dumb-assed boys to please not try to be YouTube stars by biting into laundry detergent pods. For people from more advanced parts of the world than North America, this actually happens. …
What??? – That Gloriously Stupid Subway Messaging Fixture In Toronto Actually Cost $2 Million January 19, 2018 by Super User I wrote recently about the mind-wobblingly stupid art installation installed but not activated at a new Toronto subway stop. The set-up would allow anyone to walk up to a kiosk and put up a brief eight-character message on a set of suspended lights. Naughty and nasty messages would, of course, ensue. The installation at the city’s …
Tickets Disappearing, But Still Room For 2-3 Sponsors For Digital Signage Awards Lunch At ISE January 19, 2018 by Super User The Digital Signage Awards take place at ISE Amsterdam, immediately after the last session of the DS Summit on Wednesday, February 7. There will be a 45-minute presentation to the Winners followed by a buffet lunch that is ideal for relaxed networking. If you haven’t already booked as a delegate to attend the Digital Signage …
Chicago Office Block’s New LED Display Motion-Paints Impressionist Scenes January 19, 2018 by Super User One of my favorite big screen creative shops, New York’s ESI Design, has started talking about another stunning piece of work – a 23-foot-tall fine pitch LED feature display in the lobby of a Chicago office block that “paints” videos of familiar local scenes in an Impressionist style. You get visuals that transform from flowing …
