Dead-Simple Signage Application For Health Care Reduces Interactive To A Button Pad December 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes There has never been a shortage of whiz-bangery offered up to make simple visual display tasks more difficult, and probably like many people in this industry, I have seen demos of screen interactions that were portrayed as seamless but in fact just added steps and complexity. I think, particularly, of applications that required pulling out …
Retail Store Tour’s 2023 Retail Trends: Social Media-Inspired Shops And More December 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes Retail Store Tours, a NY company that does customized walkabouts focused on retail innovation, is doing a press-only 2023 Retail Trends event next month just ahead of the big NRF 2023 retail trade show and conference in New York. Not going to NRF this time around, but I thought the trends the company will be …
Minneapolis Airport Adds Four Big LG LED Displays For Messaging, Advertising December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has lit up a set of four very large direct view LED displays in concourses that are positioned as airport messaging, but will undoubtedly get monetized via advertising. “Digital displays allow us to maximize the use of overhead space at our exit escalators, which was previously used to hang printed messages. …
Those Giant Swinging LED Doors Are Now Installed At Near-Ready Times Square Development (w/video) December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes That big new LED screen going up in Times Square with an integrated performance stage and swing-in stage doors is getting close to completion, with the doors now installed and working. The performance space is set up 30 feet above street level and will be hidden most of the time in a much larger LED …
Tightrope Media Systems Hits 25 Years In Digital Signage December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Happy 25th birthday to the folks at Minneapolis-based Tightrope Media Systems, which first started marketing what it called video billboard software back in 1997. The software is now marketed as Carousel Digital Signage, but the company is still run by founder JJ Parker. Digital signage is still a young industry, but it’s fun and intriguing …
Agenda Set For Digital Signage Summit At ISE December 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes With the DSE reboot now come and gone, and mercifully date-shifted for 2023, attention now turns to trade shows coming up early in the New Year. I get asked a lot if I am going to CES, and my answer is consistently, “Nope.” It’s mainly consumer electronics, not commercial stuff. I went once and determined …
E Ink Puts Color Screens Into Mass Production December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper displays have been around for many years now, but adoption has been limited – something that likely owes to their cost and the slow progression of the technology. That may change now that the primary manufacturer of e-paper displays – the US/Taiwan company E Ink – has gone into mass production for color …
EU Commissioner Makes Personal Appearance From Afar Using Hologram-ish LED Light Stick Array December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes I think using those shower stall-like transparent LCD set-ups to enable personal appearances by people who can’t actually get to the destination is pretty compelling, but I’m always thrown off a bit by how the subject is very visibly encased and confined in the enclosure. So it’s interesting to see how the UK company HYPERVSN …
Wednesday Webinar To Offer Expert Insights On 2023 Digital Signage Industry Trends December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Supply chain issues, unrest and wobbling economies aside, there seems to be a lot of general momentum in this industry at the moment, and lots happening as we head very soon into 2023. The Digital Signage Experience folks have organized a one-hour online panel for tomorrow that explores what’s going on and what’s to come …
Exertis Almo Bulks Up Managed Services Via Acquisition Of Engineering/Drafting Firm Caddrillion December 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big pro AV and technology distributor Exertis Almo has taken the interesting step of acquiring a Baltimore-area company that specializes in engineering, drafting and programming resources for technology integrators and consultants. The Philly-area company has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets of Caddrillion Engineering & Drafting, with the deal being effective at the …
