Projects: World’s Largest LED Board Lights Up In Johannesburg March 19, 2013 by Super User Lumen – billed as the largest LED display on the planet, was switched on today on top of the four sides of the Absa Towers building in Johannesburg, South Africa. Four giant LED screens – one on each side on top of the 29th floor roof, result in a digital display footprint almost twice the …
Taiwan Digital Signage Forum Looking For Speaker March 19, 2013 by Super User Taiwan’s Digital Signage Multimedia Association has its annual Digital Signage Forum on Friday, June 7th in Taipei, and has a call out for a speaker who can do 30 minutes on where the industry os at and where it is going. The DSMA will reimburse air and two nights hotel for whoever sticks up their …
Key West Debuts SignWave For Meeting Room Market March 19, 2013 by Super User Keywest Technology is the latest digital signage software developer to get on the Android OS bus, announcing a system called SignWave that’s expressly focused on event and meeting room signs. The idea is to marry Android OS tablets with third-party property and event management systems that are commonly used in corporate, hospitality and higher education …
NanoLumens Hangs Out With The Hipsters At SXSW March 18, 2013 by Super User The boys from NanoLumens got to hang out with the cool kids and fedora-wearing hipsters at last week’s SXSW event in Austin, TX – providing some of its light, thin and custom-shaped LED displays for some interactive work shown off by Austin-based interactive firm Mass Relevance. The Atlanta company has posted a series of pix …
Report: Panasonic Winding Down Plasma Display Business March 18, 2013 by Super User Japan’s Nikkei newspaper is reporting today that Panasonic may pull out of the plasma television business as part of downsizing efforts. Revenues from Panasonic’s TV business is projected to have dropped by more than half by 2015/2016. Panasonic planned to end plasma TV panel production at its main plant next year, reports Nikkei (via Reuters), adding …
NYFI Wins NYC’s Reinventing Payphones Contest March 17, 2013 by Super User A slim digital tower with swappable modules that makes free WiFi ubiquitous has won New York City’s Reinventing the Payphone – the winner weirdly selected based on a public vote via Facebook. Democratic, sure. Best method to award on merit, strategy and feasibility? Hmmm. Anyway, the NYFI is intended to be, says the city’s Tumblr blog, …
New York Transit System Expanding Interactive Kiosk Trial March 15, 2013 by Super User The MTA – which operates the transit systems running in New York City, has announced it is going ahead with a second phase of a pilot project for On the Go! Travel Stations, interactive touch-screen kiosks that provide trip planing information, maps and system status reports Another 77 of the ad-supported units are being added …
Danaher Steps Down At DPAA; Joins Adspace March 14, 2013 by Super User Sue Danaher has resigned as president and CEO of the the Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA), letting her contract lapse at the end of this month and taking a senior job with the mall advertising network Adspace. Mike DiFranza, DPAA board chairman and president/founder of Captivate Network, said in a release that Danaher informed the …
Video: Leap Motion Shows Interactive Digital Possibilities At SXSW March 14, 2013 by Super User The Leap Motion controller has, I think, a huge amount of potential for interactive experiences in retail and other settings because of the granularity of gesture recognition (it can track the end of a waving chopstick) and the the absence of any need to “learn” gestures. The opportunity for desktop gaming is very large, so …
Research: 60% Of Us Are Showrooming March 14, 2013 by Super User AdWeek has a great set of infographics up that show the depth pof the problem some retailers face with showrooming – the evidently very widespread tactic of going to a store to check out the look and feel of goods, and then leaving to then buy it for less cost online. One of the ways …
