RMG Latest Digital Signage CMS Software Shop To Add LG webOS Support Via Korbyt July 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes RMG Networks is the latest CMS software and solutions company to develop support for LG’s webOS smart display platform. The company’s Korbyt platform is now compatible with the display giant’s Linux-derived system on chip platform. Korbyt is RMG’s relatively new cloud-based CMS. Dallas-based RMG suggests combining webOS Signage and Korbyt offers many benefits. “LG’s clients already using …
UK Sushi Chain Changes Up Menuboard Approach With Super-Stretched Displays July 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice implementation of digital menuboards in a fast food environment – changing things up with super-stretched displays and a bold, reasonably minimal content presentation – instead of many items wedged into limited visual space. The project involves the London, UK-based sushi and bento restaurant chain, Wasabi, at seven stores around that city. The digital displays …
Interactive Retail Merchandiser Perch Completes $1.7M Seed Funding July 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes NYC-based Perch, which has for several years been developing very clever interactive merchandising pieces for retail, has announced a $1.7 million seed funding raise and a high profile addition to its advisory board.Perch first came on my radar several years ago with an overhead projection system that turned an ordinary white merchandising table into a …
Gordon Feller Talks About The Real Potential For Smart Cities And Digital OOH July 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes I can’t say I’ve been all the enthralled by what I’ve seen so far with smart cities initiatives that involve digital out of home media companies. For the most part, they’re just digital posters with some wifi and maybe some sensors tossed in so the things can be called “smart.” Those things exist to run …
2,000 Sq. Ft. Of Gorgeous Visualized Data About To Go Live At Charlotte, NC’s Airport July 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. The data visuals are the focal point of a public art piece, called Interconnected, commissioned by the airport to LA data …
German Testing Lab Shows Samsung’s QLED Display Tech Has No Burn-In Issues July 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes Via Display Daily A German testing lab has released results of tests that verify Samsung’s QLED technology doesn’t suffer any of the burn-in problem of some other flat panel display tech. The tests, relayed via the display nerd site Display Daily, seem to be Samsung’s way of suggesting its premium displays are good to go …
Sao Paulo Office Block Lit Up By LED Art Project July 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a low-rez LED light facade, with content put together by the Istanbul, Turkey HQ’d creative shop Ouchhh. I like what they did, but the explanation/description is one of those art gallery “Ummm-OK-yeah-yeah-I-see” narratives that is a little too out there for my bottom-feeder brain. And I quote …
Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2 July 9, 2018 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were …
The Tech Behind Those Furiously-Spinning LED Holograph-ish Hypervsn Walls July 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes I’ve been to a few trade shows now where the fast-spinning LED light sticks – marketed as Hypervsn – attract big crowds and have a lot of people whipping out their phone cameras. The technology definitely creates buzz, so I wanted to know more about the technology and the company behind it. It uses the …
How Tanvas Uses Haptics To Add The Sensation Of Touch To Otherwise Lifeless Displays June 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes Imagine if you could feel what you see on a touchscreen. If, for example, you could unzip a zipper by drawing your finger down a screen and experiencing that familiar sensation. That’s the premise behind a Chicago startup called Tanvas, that is using haptics technology to enable users of interactive screens to have genuine touch …
