Raptors Not Reindeer Wandered Dallas Zoo Grounds Over Holidays In Projection Mapping Show January 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes If you have kids, or there’s still quite a bit of kid in you – and you happen to live in the Dallas area – that city’s zoo is winding down a projection-driven show that ran ran through the holiday season but featured raptors instead of reindeer. Semi-transparent scrim screens positioned around the oldest zoo …
Samsung-Incubated Startup 10kM’s AI-powered Digital Signage Solutions To Be Showcased At CES December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have this perhaps old-fashioned attitude that the quality and functionality of a software company’s website offers some clues to the quality and functionality of that company’s products and services, so I am not overly enthused by a Korean generative AI content start-up Samsung is showcasing soon at CES in Las Vegas. The Seoul firm …
ISE Mixer Sold Out After Two Hours December 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes AND we’re sold out for ISE Mixer in Barcelona … that took two hours, which has to be a record for Sixteen:Nine mixers. A portion of the tickets are held back for sponsors, so anyone working with a sponsor should not get panicky upon reading about a sell-out. I see at least one sponsor registered …
ISE Digital Signage Industry Mixer Registration Now Open December 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here is the registration link for the industry mixer at ISE. Tickets are free and they tend to go very quickly. Plus attendance is capped because of the size of the venue. The event is Feb. 3rd in Barcelona, at the same place as the last couple of years. It is again affiliated with the …
Broadsign Staffers Ski All Weekend Raise $31K+ For Children’s Causes December 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Big high fives to a bunch of people at Montreal’s Broadsign, who raised more than $31,000 this past weekend for children’s causes during what’s called the 24h Tremblant relay race, which ran Friday-Sunday at the Mont-Tremblant report area outside of Quebec’s largest city. The annual fundraising event invites teams to relay for 24 hours by …
Registration Starts Tomorrow For The ISE 2025 Digital Signage Mixer December 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Tickets go up tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern, 4 PM Central Europe for the 2025 digital signage mixer at ISE in Barcelona. The time is my attempt to bridge a bunch of time zones, while also acknowledging this is more an EMEA event than one for North American industry people. I will post the link …
Sony Again Making Sustainability Central To ISE Exhibit Hall Presence December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes In the wake of advancing the ISE plans of PPDS (Philips), I came across information about another big pro AV display vendor, Sony, is doing at the show in Barcelona in early February. Sustainability and ESG policies are not much of a thing beyond the largest North American companies, but it is a big discussion …
PPDS Advances ISE 2025 Presence That Includes New Philips LED And Sustainability Products December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The big display manufacturers have started talking up what they will be showing at ISE in Barcelona, though I think some of them might want to get CES PR out of the way before they start touting the shiny new pots and pans they will be showing off in Barcelona. PPDS, aka Philips pro displays …
Italian Digital Artist Quayola Invited To Projection-Map Barcelona’s Casa Batlló Just Ahead Of ISE December 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes While display tech tends to take center stage at Integrated Systems Europe, the big trade show’s organizers are again reminding attendees that creative makes or breaks visual projects – no matter how fine the pixel pitch or high the lumens count. The Barcelona trade show’s creative keynote for the early February event is Davide Quagliola, …
Final Thoughts From DSE 2024, And Some Air Travel Whining December 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes I am back from the US west – Palm Springs and then Las Vegas and a set of flights that really reinforced how I like the being there of travel, but not the getting there. Two hour and four hour delays on the way out, and a swing home that should have got me home …