Nashville Gets Even Better With Awesome New Airport Terminal Lobby January 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’d be very happy if every trade show I went to in the US was in Nashville, and not in Vegas or, ugh, Orlando. But it is my understanding that digital signage and AV trade shows are not organized, weirdly, just to suit me. Nashville is a great place on a bunch of levels (live …
ISE Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Screenfeed January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event (sold out, sorry!) happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs. I like …
Samsung Adds Windows 10 Support For Its Retail-Focused Kiosks January 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes Samsung has taken the interesting step of adding Windows 10 support to its retail-focused all-in-one kiosks, having previously offered the display units only with Samsung’s proprietary Tizen operating system. The electronics giant made the announcement at the big retail tech show NRF, which is on right now in New York. Samsung says its new Samsung …
Famed Man City Football Club Adding AI Crowd Intelligence Tech To Boost Gameday Experiences December 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes A technology partnership with Cisco appears to be paying off for Detroit-based computer vision firm WaitTime, which will see its real-time crowd intelligence platform installed and activated at one of the higher profile venues in global football: Etihad Stadium, home of the Premier League club Manchester City. The agreement to use the WaitTime technology, says …
PARTTEAM, OEMKIOSKS Develop Interesting Modular Take On Ad-Driven “Street Furniture” November 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of different specialty display manufacturers have developed variations on digital out of home street furniture displays that have added components they then marketed as “smart city” displays, but I haven’t seen one that takes the same approach as the NOMYU series from the Portugal-based interactive systems manufacturers PARTTEAM and OEMKIOSKS. The partner companies …
Barcelona Digital Exhibit Uses Real-Time Data To Visualize City’s Elements And Surroundings November 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes I really like visualized data installations – not only because of creative output but the way they allow big video wall installations to always look different, based on incoming data. But what I’ve not liked, at times, is how it’s not often clear why the visuals are shifting and transforming, based on the data inputs. …
London Rail Company Testing Boring But Useful Passenger Info Screens November 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Last week at Digital Signage Experience in Las Vegas, I had a number of conversations about what’s happening in the industry and use-cases that I found interesting. What I tended to say I was attracted to thing applications a lot of people would regard as boring. Giant LED displays, super-skinny OLEDs and interactive jobs are …
Digital Signage, Queue Management Tech Help Screen Athletes At USA Special Olympics November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The 2022 Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando used a nice combination of queue management and digital signage technologies to manage a healthy athlete screening program set up to process as many as 12,000 athletes over the seven-day run of the event. Special Olympics worked with the creative technology shop edgefactory, based in Orlando, on …
Shake Shack Adding Self-Service Kiosks Across Full Chain; Introducing More Drive-Thru Displays November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Kiosk Manufacturing Association’s blog for spotting this … The U.S. burger chain Shake Shack is making big investments in digital to deal with shifting consumer expectations and the challenges of hiring and keeping staff. QSR Magazine has a detailed story up about how the chain is investing in self-service kiosks across its …
Some 500 Sync’d Drones Take Over NYC Skyline To Market Candy Crush; Residents Unimpressed November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Residents in big cities have raised objections to things like river and ocean barges with LED boards on them, and big digital boards on roadways, so I suspect synchronized drone arrays in the sky used specifically for product marketing are not going to be greeted warmly if they start appearing regularly. The technical feat of …
