Refik Anadol Talks About How He Develops His Mind-Blowing Digital Data Sculptures August 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he …
Spotted: Smart City Digital Signage In Montreal That’s Genuinely Smart August 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes I had breakfast in Montreal with an industry friend yesterday, who filled me in on a project that genuinely addresses the notion of digital signage and smart cities. There are 100s of rectangular LED screens in the central business and tourist districts, some in stacks of two or three, telling motorists where parking lots are …
Digital ePaper Bus Stops Get Green Light For Sydney (AU) Rollout July 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes Electronic paper-based, solar-powered bus stop digital signage just got a big endorsement from a major world city – as the governing body for transport in Sydney, Australia has signed off on a rollout of what are called eStops across that city. The rollout comes on the heels of a six-month trial at a pair of …
Gordon Feller Talks About The Real Potential For Smart Cities And Digital OOH July 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes I can’t say I’ve been all the enthralled by what I’ve seen so far with smart cities initiatives that involve digital out of home media companies. For the most part, they’re just digital posters with some wifi and maybe some sensors tossed in so the things can be called “smart.” Those things exist to run …
Nick Fearnley Talks About How SignStix Makes Smart Displays Really Smart July 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. It …
Generative Visuals Derived From Famous Artworks Fills Huge LED Canvas At Dolby’s HQ June 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a set of digital motion graphics art pieces running at the Dolby Gallery in San Francisco, on a 62-foot wide street-level LED in the lobby. Developed by Chicago experiential design agency Leviathan, Metamorphosis is described as an audiovisual odyssey that extracts brilliant color data from masterpieces of the past century to create an …
Sapient Razorfish Debuts Live Databloom At EU Money Conference June 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes Data visualization guru Mike Pell, who spoke a couple of years back at the DSrupted conference I ran in Toronto, talks about the difference between a visualization that is clearly beautiful, versus one that is beautifully clear. The big interactive agency SapientRazorfish is showing a digital installation this week at the Money2020 payments and financial …
City Agrees To Allow LinkNYC Rollout To Slow Down; Provides More Time To Pay May 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes Few observers will be surprised to learn the much-touted NYC smart city rollout of screens replacing payphone boxes is not going as well as envisioned. I don’t get to New York that often, but when I do, I see lotsa black and blue screens dotting the sidewalks. I hear the same from people who live …
Google Announces Lean Version Of Android To Power “Things” Like Smart Displays May 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes Google yesterday announced a new service called Android Things, described as a minimal version of the Android operating system that is widely used in digital signage, on media players and in some display manufacturers’ system on chip displays. The intention for Android Things is IoT devices like smart appliances and personal assistants – the latter which …
Aisle-Topper LED Ribbons For Hershey In Big Box Retailing May 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes Not a huge fan of shelf-level LED strips because the resolution isn’t there for close viewing, and the little LED light chips will get the crap beat out of them, but I do like the big aisle-topper ribbon display implementation at a big-box store somewhere, by the LA-area company AWM Smart Shelf. To be fair, …
