Projects: The World’s Biggest (Virtual) Fish Tank June 3, 2013 by Super User I am still trying to wrap my head around the most popular show on US cable being about guys who make duck calls, and now I have to also deal with the notion of a massive and expensive Times Square media spectacular for a show about (I assume) people in the fish tank business. …
Projects: NC State’s Display-Filled Research Library Of The Future June 3, 2013 by Super User North Carolina State University’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, NC is a new purpose-built environment designed to allow students and faculty to interact with top-of-the-line digital technology that furthers their research and education. The school has a big online gaming program and the library has a series of massive video walls that use Christie’s …
Guest Post: Digital Signage At SID 2013 June 3, 2013 by Stephen Randall Manufacturers of large display panels don’t make much — or any — money on panels for television, so the rapidly growing market for digital signage is a bright spot. SID Display Week — held May 19-24, 2013 in Vancouver, B.C. — is a display technology show that is not known for a focus on digital …
InfoComm’s Digital Signage Footprint Not Exactly Heavy In 2013 June 2, 2013 by Super User I tend to book my way to InfoComm as a matter of routine, without really looking at what’s on and who is there. So it was pretty surprising to see how skimpy the digital signage presence is this year. All the big display and projection guys are, of course, there with big booths and lotsa …
Transit Screen Arrives, But Is It A Few Years Too Late? May 31, 2013 by Super User A small company in Washington, DC is trying to expand the footprint for a digital sign application that displays everything a commuter in that market might want to know about getting around. It appears to look and work great, but it’s hard to wonder why people wouldn’t just tap this information on their smartphone. Digital …
Projects: Clorox Promotion Pushes Consumer Photos To LED Board May 29, 2013 by Super User Clorox recently promoted its new Smart Tube Technology which, I guess, cleans stuff, using a mobile to big-ass digital billboard in Toronto’s big Yonge and Dundas Square are, which is kinda sorta like Times Square. Put together by Titan Outdoor and using Capital Networks’ Audience software – which already drives a pile of the screens …
UK’s BigTweet Online And On Digital Screens Termed Big Success May 28, 2013 by Super User The organizers of a media campaign that used social media and digital screens to drive awareness and activity in the UK for International Missing Children’s Day have released some impressive metrics for the #BigTweet this past weekend. The effort saw celebrities including Simon Cowell, Stephen Fry, and Lord Sugar (Amscreen) joining the search for missing …
Oz-based oOh! Media Cuts Digital OOH Network Over To BroadSign May 28, 2013 by Super User The Edwardsville Intelligencer is reporting, and I am not making this up, that BroadSign has bagged a nice software deal with the largest digital OOH media company in Australia. oOh! Media, which has some 850 screens in retail, airports, pubs and bars and universities across Australia and New Zealand, has cut over content management toBroadSign’s …
Projects: Giant MicroTiles Wall Launches Kazakh Rail Line May 28, 2013 by Super User The details are a little fuzzy on what this was for, but the execution is pretty impressive. This is an abstract cluster of some 100 Christie MicroTiles used for a presentation launching (I think) a rail line in Kazakhstan. The presentation located factories in different parts of that country, and an iPad was used to …
Impressions Of Digital Signage In Big City South Africa May 26, 2013 by Super User Back home in Canada after more than three weeks working with a large client in South Africa. I’d never been, but will definitely go back. Reason 1: Terrific people. Reason 2: Amazing sights and experiences, within minutes of a mega-city like Johannesburg. Reason 3: Unrest and uncertainty has beat the crap out of the currency, …
