Research: 17.2 M Digital Signs By 2019 (Updated) May 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Nanolumens Expands Beyond LED To Projection Surfaces April 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes It seems like all the display guys are branching out lately. First it was software and now display types. You may think of Atlanta-based NanoLumens as a company squarely in the business of making lightweight, skinny and modular LED displays, but now they’ve announced a clear transparent surface you’d liken to 3M’s Vikuiti film surfaces. The NanoClear …
Something New: Enclosures That Don’t Look Industrial April 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes The companies out there that do LCD panel enclosures for advertising and retail generally do a great job with the important engineering bits like heating and cooling, and durability in the face of an ever abusive general public. Where they don’t tend to excel is design. They tend to look like squared-off steel slabs. …
