Spotted: Smart City Digital Signage In Montreal That’s Genuinely Smart August 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes I had breakfast in Montreal with an industry friend yesterday, who filled me in on a project that genuinely addresses the notion of digital signage and smart cities. There are 100s of rectangular LED screens in the central business and tourist districts, some in stacks of two or three, telling motorists where parking lots are …
Video: “In NY, We Go Up” Creative At Footlocker Flagship August 3, 2018 by Dave HaynesThis is a nice, sync’d set of animations done by motion graphic designer Steven D’Arbenzio, who works in the NY/NJ area. “I was given the awesome opportunity to create an animated mural for Footlocker’s flagship store in Times Square, NYC,” says D’Arbenzio. “The ask was to create artwork that spoke to the strength, resilience, and …
From The Archive: Chris Riegel On Growing His Stratacache Empire August 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes It is VERY hard to find people working – full days, or at all – in the lovely, hot summer most of us are seeing in North America and Europe. A couple of podcast interviews have fallen through in recent days, so I decided to go into the archive and revive an episode from a …
Tokyo’s Narita Airport Has Video Wall Ode To Toliets, Using Low-Rez LEDs And Fabric Panels July 31, 2018 by Dave Hayneshttps://youtu.be/mmgWUMyrNhI This is something called Luminous Textiles – a Philips product that blends multi-coloured LEDs with fabric panels. I’ve seen stuff a bit like this using relatively low-rez LED modules and a layer of film that diffuses and softens the light. In this case, it’s for a working exhibit at Tokyo’s Narita airport that celebrates …
NEC Display Formally Opens New US HQ And Briefing Center In Chicago July 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions of America technically moved in over the last few weeks, but its new headquarters and Briefing Center formally opened today with an open house. The new facility has 6,000 square feet of showroom space and room for an expanding workforce in a bright, open-concept office layout. “Our new offices are a representation …
Digital ePaper Bus Stops Get Green Light For Sydney (AU) Rollout July 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes Electronic paper-based, solar-powered bus stop digital signage just got a big endorsement from a major world city – as the governing body for transport in Sydney, Australia has signed off on a rollout of what are called eStops across that city. The rollout comes on the heels of a six-month trial at a pair of …
Watch This Very Impressive 3D Animation Done For Rolls-Royce Stand July 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s another video in which I’m short on details. This is from the Rolls-Royce exhibit at the recent Farnborough air show in the UK. I spotted it on Linkedin. The company used a big fine pitch LED cube and very clever three-dimensional graphics to market a component for its jet engines. What’s intriguing is that …
Here’s A 3D Hologram-ish Display That Actually Looks Good July 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to John Baggot of ComQi for pointing me to this … If you have been around digital signage for a few years, you’ve seen periodic attempts by companies to show glasses-free 3D displays, or holographic-ish stuff that could only be viewed by staring inside boxes. I’ve even, recently, seen glasses-free 3D LED displays. …
Why When It Comes To Digital Signage Screens, Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better July 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes When it comes to displays in digital signage, just about all the attention goes to screens that have steadily grown bigger, skinnier and brighter. Not a lot of attention or time has been spent on small screens – but there’s a real and growing market demand for displays in places like retail that don’t eat …
iBase Releases Rugged, Stretched Panel PCs For Digital Signage On Buses, Railcars July 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes Someone will likely correct me, but this is the first time I at least remembering seeing one of those skinny, stretched LCDs with a full PC embedded inside – in this case for mass transport systems. The Taiwan industrial PC maker iBase has a new all-in-one 27.6-inch “railway-certified” bar-type panel PC, powered by a Pentium N4200 Quad …
