Research Suggests Buyer Confidence Increasing Numbers Per Site Of Commercial Displays April 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes New research is suggesting confidence in the durability of commercial display products will mean the numbers of them will grow, per location, by 20 percent over the next three years. A new report from the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and PMA Research says that growth will happen even though replacement cycles for displays …
16:9 Podcasts – Jenn Vail of E Ink On The Future of E-paper In Digital Signage April 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes E-paper has been around for 20-plus years and it has gradually been improving to a point that it makes operating, commercial and visual sense for digital signage applications. There are companies like Slovenia’s Visionect that do a really nice job of making small black and white displays look beautiful for applications that vary from meeting …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. The domes house more than 40,000 plants from the cloud forest regions of over 30 countries – making for a workplace that feels, …
Interactive She Too Digital Wall Prompts On-The-Spot Donations April 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a nice charity campaign in Toronto’s underground PATH concourse system that weaves through much of the central business district – involving a video wall and a nearby station that enables on-the-spot donations. PATTISON Outdoor and its digital innovation arm, Fourthwall, teamed up with local agency Jungle Media to promote CARE Canada’s She Too …
NEC, BrightSign Pair Up On New Bundled Offer March 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes In what seems like a pretty smart move, among several lately, BrightSign has paired up with yet another tech company in the digital signage ecosystem to make its little purple media players part of the offer and solution. NEC Display Solutions of America will be offering a bundled signage solution involving an NEC commercial grade …
Report From ISA: Little Sign Of Digital Signage At Sign Industry’s Big Show, But Hints Of An Uptick March 23, 2018 by Jim Nista Guest Post: Jim Nista, Insteo Sign Expo, the International Sign Association’s (ISA) big annual trade show, is underway in Orlando. The ISA show focuses on the print and outdoor sign industry, with large format printers, CNC machines, light pole flags, architectural signage, and large outdoor LED. There’s even a section for bucket trucks for outdoor …
Looking At LED At DSE 2018? Here’s Your Total Guide … March 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes There’s a lot to see at Digital Signage Expo this year, and there will be a lot of attention paid to the display manufacturers showing fine pitch LED tech. There’s a lot going on in that sector, and weighing selection options on price and how they look is not the path to an informed decision. …
Startup SelfArray Using Levitation, Vibration To Mass-Manufacture LED Modules For Fine-Pitch Displays March 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes An upstate New York firm called SelfArray is touting technology that would greatly speed up the time it takes to manufacture fine pitch LED displays, using (and I am not making this up) magnets and levitation. The company just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Award to continue …
