E Ink Showing Its New Prism Display Next Week At SID May 28, 2015 by Super User E Ink will be showing its very cool Prism architectural display tech next week at the SID Display Week in Silicon Valley. Launched at CES a few months ago, Prism is color changing electronic ink technology that architects and designers can use to transform spaces and surroundings. It’s not really digital signage in any conventional sense, …
Video: Using McDonald’s New Self-Ordering Kiosk To Get A Very Big Mac May 28, 2015 by Super User Here’s a somewhat warped look at the Create Your Taste digital ordering kiosks that McDonald’s is testing in some U.S. outlets. A guy named Moshe Tamssot decided to push the ordering system to its limits – and eat enough to feed a Sudanese village – by pounding the touchscreen + sign on every optional item …
Research: 17.2 M Digital Signs By 2019 (Updated) May 27, 2015 by Super User A boutique market research firm in Sweden, focused on the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine connectivity businesses, has pushed out a report suggesting global shipments of networked digital signage displays grew by 21.7 percent last year. Berg Insight suggests that high growth will continue for the next several years, ticking along at a compound annual …
Projects: One World Trade Center’s Digital-Filled Observatory May 22, 2015 by Super User The 102nd floor deck on top of the new World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan – the building that went up next to the footprint of the two towers brought down on 9-11, opens as an observatory next week. It’s a $32 elevator ride to go up and have a look around, but there’s …
LG Shows Off Prototype OLED Panel That Goes Up Like Fridge Magnet May 19, 2015 by Super User This is getting a little crazy. A decade ago you needed two guys to manhandle a 55-inch LCD or (particularly) a plasma panel into place on a wall mount. Now we learn, via OLED-info, that LG has shown off in DS. Korea an OLED 55-incher that weighs all of about 5 pounds and is a …
Tablets: iPads Are No Longer Top Of The Sales Table May 14, 2015 by Super User It would be easy to think everybody seems to have an iPad, because an awful lot of people do. But new research shows even more people have cheap Chinese tablets with brand names on them that are wholly unfamiliar. The research firm Strategy Analytics says sales of white label tablets now out-strip sales for tablets …
Digital Billboard In London Falls, Crushes Passerby May 12, 2015 by Super User A woman walking down a street in suburban London sidewalk was seriously injured earlier today when a four ton, 20-ft wide LED billboard run by ClearChannel pulled free from a building wall. The woman was hit by the huge metal billboard hoarding after it broke free, and fell about 20 feet, reports the Daily Mail. The …
Samsung, Google, Hypersign Team On Education Bundle May 7, 2015 by Super User This seems slightly odd. Samsung has put a huge amount of effort and resources into marketing the features and benefits of its Smart Signage platform, but has joined a collaborative program that is built around an external device that negates the need for the smarts in the sign. It’s a collaboration with Google and the CMS company …
Projects: Fans Get Their Hockey Beards On For NY Rangers Games May 4, 2015 by Super User MVP Interactive is doing a fan activation thing with pro hockey’s New York Rangers – using interactive screens that allow even little kids to get their playoff beard on. Fans can instantly grow their own beard based off a current player’s unique and personal styled beard and long hockey hair. Using QR codes, pre-registered fans …
Samsung Canada Opens Executive Briefing Centre April 30, 2015 by Super User The best of intentions, but not the best follow-through meant I registered to go see Samsung Canada’s new executive briefing centre in suburban Toronto yesterday, but never actually got away from world HQ. Stupid-busy. But Computer Dealer News has a post up that includes numerous pix of the new digs in Mississauga. Samsung has a big …
