Buffalo jail debuts Captive Ads program March 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Erie County Holding Centre in Buffalo (aka jail) now has a giant HD monitor running ads for defence lawyers and bail bondsmen. The ads, reports the Buffalo News, targets people who have been recently arrested. The Buffalo News cites Anthony N Diina, the head of a company offering digital advertising services to Erie County government, as …
Video: 3D projection mapping on Sydney Opera House March 22, 2011 by Dave HaynesHere’s video of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra finale from Sunday night at the Sydney Opera House. As it is described: The art of real-time visual technology meets modernist architecture as audio-reactive graphic projections and live digital painting simultaneously canvas the interior and exterior of the iconic building with parallel projection shows. Done by Obscura Digital.
Emory U's new public health bldg embeds giant MicroTiles wall March 21, 2011 by Dave HaynesThings have improved a lot on recent years, but we’re still largely seeing digital signage deployments with screens that are bolted on to walls or hung from things. It’s still rare when it is built in, which is why I like this. This is a display in the atrium lobby of the new Claudia Nance …
Very cool: 3D Projection-Mapping Blasted From Half-mile Out To Sydney Opera House Sails March 18, 2011 by Dave HaynesThis looks pretty spankin’ amazing on a bunch of levels. A week-long music festival in Sydney, Australia will culminate with a performance at the city’s iconic concert hall by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra – some 100 classical musicians from around the globe who auditioned online to be part of this event. The big concert on …
Cheating face detection the Twisted Sister way March 15, 2011 by Dave HaynesI have been doing some writing lately about face detection technology and certainly getting better educated about the issues and arguments around privacy issues as it relates to cameras and software looking for and bracketing faces. Engadget has an interesting piece up about an NYU student who figured out how face detection could be thwarted …
Augmented Reality meets Kinect, makes Magic … Mirror March 7, 2011 by Dave HaynesTech blogger Robert Scoble has a fascinating guest post up on TechCrunch about a recent visit to the Silicon Valley R&D lab of SRI International, which has some 1,700 researchers doing work on tremendously important things like medical imaging, and not so important things like the future of shopping. I was, of course, most interested …
ScreenReach's first mobile-to-screen test with Newcastle Utd gets near 10% take-up March 6, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe UK mobile/digital screen start-up ScreenReach had its first industrial-strength test Saturday at a Newcastle United football (soccer) match at the home grounds. Fans were sked to use their smartphones to select the Man Of The Match. This was the first stab at getting the crowd to get involved, and ScreenReach was hoping for an …
"Ads per broadcasting hour" as a Digital OOH measure? March 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesVisionChina Media is one of China’s largest Digital OOH players, with an ad network that covers 23 cities and includes 137,395 digital displays on buses, subway trains and platforms, as well as on other platforms. The company has reported its 2010 financials, which reflect what looks like a pretty ugly turn down in fortunes (more on …
Screenfeed continues to change up automated content for digital signage March 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesJeremy Gavin of Screenfeed tweeted last night about a new weather feed his company does that dumps the well-worn approach of animated weather icons in favor of big visuals that instantly tell a story. Instead of little animated rain drops that turn to ice pellets, the Screenfeed image for freezing rain is a big, full-screen …
Are iPads suitable for digital signage? March 3, 2011 by Dave HaynesAre iPads suitable for digital signage? This is more an open question than something I can really answer here, but the all the discussion and attention stirred up by the iPad 2’s release got me thinking. I’d love to hear from people who have taken a crack at using the tablets – or iPad’s increasing …