Board The Queen Mary For A Digital Signage Tour, Aug. 10th July 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo is planning an informal tour and mixer on the Queen Mary cruise liner, which has been a part of the Long Beach, CA waterfront for many years as a working museum hotel and restaurant. The August 10th event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the ship. At rush hour, it’s about a three …
Visionect’s Epaper Digital Door Signs Win Red Dot Industrial Design Award July 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. The competition attracted almost 5,200 entries this year, from 57 countries, and a look through the winners has …
DSF Meet & Greet Mixer Set For Minneapolis On July 21 June 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation is holding another one of its Meet & Greet Networking events next month – an evening function on July 21 at the Microsoft Training Center in Edina, MN, which is suburban Minneapolis. The event will have drinks and nibblies, and feature presenters from Microsoft, talking about personalization of digital signage in retail. The DSF …
Webinar At 1 ET Today On Using Data In Digital Signage June 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m up midday at Omnivex’s offices in the north part of Toronto to do a Q&A webinar on how data can be used to drive digital signage. It’s more of a chat than a formal presentation, and I’ll toss questions at Omnivex President Jeff Collard about how this stuff is done. Omnivex was doing data-driven digital signage a decade and …
InfoComm 2016 Roundup: Any Surface Is A Canvas June 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas left systems integrators and visual designers with a vast menu of possibilities for turning just about any surface into a digital canvas. The annual pro-AV show – which focuses on audio-visual gear – had two full convention center halls of diverse technology, and attracted 10s of 1,000s of attendees – …
New Interactive Digital Signage Conference Set For Baltimore This Fall June 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes A new conference has bubbled up for the industry this fall, this one called Interactive Digital Signage Technology and slated for Sept. 21-23 in Baltimore. Yeah, Baltimore. It comes on the matching dates of the 2nd Four Winds Interactive conference, called Forward, that will run in Denver. The event is being put on by Active Communications International, …
InfoComm 2016 Attracts 38,833, Down Slightly From 2015 June 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes InfoComm has released its numbers for the just-ended show in Las Vegas, and they are down just a hair from last year’s show in Orlando. There were 38,833 people registered this year, down from 39,105 in 2015. However, the number of exhibitors hit 1,000 for the first time, up from 950. The show is now …
InfoComm 2016: Day 2 Impressions June 10, 2016 by Dave Haynes The more I walked and talked here at InfoComm, the more I was drawing conclusions around what digital signage displays look like in the next five years. First, many or most of the the single displays are going to ship with embedded intelligence on them. Whatever you think of System on Chip displays, pretty much …
InfoComm 2016: Day One Impressions June 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. What …
InfoComm 2016: LED World June 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes I have not been on the InfoComm show floor yet, as it doesn’t formally open for a couple of hours and only exhibitors can get in during set-up. But what I am told from contacts and what I have seen through the doors is a sea of LED displays. They are everywhere. Yesterday was the …
