How JFK Is Using Real-Time Data Screens At TSA Screening August 24, 2015 by Super User Via TechCrunch Here’s another great example of the possibilities for using real-time data to drive screen content and make something faster, better or easier. In this case, the faster, better and easier has to do with TSA screening at airports. This tech won’t really achieve any of those three, but it will at least make …
Real-Time Data As Content: TransitScreen Adds Live And Predictive Traffic August 19, 2015 by Super User Ask anybody, in pretty much any big city, about the state of their traffic, and they’ll have a one word answer: “Horrible.” Still, it’s very handy to know just HOW horrible traffic is on the routes in and out of urban centers and chokepoints, and the guys at Washington, DC-based TransitScreen have done a partnership to add …
DSrupted’s Early Bird Takes Flight Soon July 21, 2015 by Super User Tickets are starting to get grabbed up for DSrupted, which is now less than two months out. We’ve got a great speaker lineup and agenda planned. You can save $50 on the conference fee but getting your ticket this week. The early bird offer shuts down at the end of July.
DSrupted: Mike Pell On Data Visualization And The Age Of Smart Signage July 10, 2015 by Super User I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. Pell speaks regularly about data visualization and has …
Liveposter’s Martin Porter Rounds Out Terrific DSrupted Line-up June 30, 2015 by Super User I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. …
DSrupted: Session Added On Digital Signage And The Internet Of Things June 10, 2015 by Super User The agenda is now pretty much rounded out for DSrupted, the annual conference that looks squarely at disruptive technologies in digital signage. I wanted a session on the Internet of Things, and needed it to be from someone who wasn’t going to just get up and talk about their device or process, and who could …
How Live Data Delivers 9,640 Different Digital OOH Ad Messages June 8, 2015 by Super User Live data and web services are starting to demonstrate the long-discussed possibilities for hyperlocal digital display screens, with a great example of that being a marketing campaign now running in the UK and built around Microsoft’s Cortana – the Windows phone version of Siri or Google Now. The agencies behind the campaign created 241 distinct …
Live Data Visualizations As Hypnotic Signage May 28, 2015 by Super User On the way to San Francisco’s airport after a day with a client 2-3 weeks ago I stopped in at Google for a quick update meeting on what the tech giant is up to with Chrome and Chromeboxes for digital signage. In the lobby of the building I was in – one of the main …
Projects: Philly Office Towers Add Live Transport Data Screens May 15, 2015 by Super User I blabber a lot these days about how live data is the content gift that can keep on giving, so I was happy to get an email today about a cool new project in Philadelphia that outs the idea in practice. Brandywine Realty Trust has partnered with TransitScreen to show real-time transport data, across multiple …
Projects: Generative Visualized Data At Rome Diesel Flagship April 30, 2015 by Super User Apparel retailer Diesel opened a flagship store in Rome last fall that included an entry area dominated by an immersive video wall running content from a German digital artist. The abstract digital display, reports GDR UK, “draws from geographical data taken from maps of Rome. Its colour, growth and movement is based upon the use …
