NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Super User Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
Health Care A Great Target Vertical For Digital Signage, But The Competition Is Not Just From Rival Providers January 21, 2022 by Super User Health care is a heavily pre-occupied right now by the pandemic, but I think that sector is a huge, longer-range target for digital signage applications that has largely been untouched to date. Just in the same way workplaces developed into a huge vertical market for displays, addressing communication and operating issues through screens in common …
Amazon Launching Bricks And Mortar Apparel Store, With Fitting Room Touchscreens As Hubs January 21, 2022 by Super User Amazon is planning to open its first bricks and mortar store dedicated to apparel, and one of the key components of the in-store customer experience will be touchscreens. The first Amazon Style store will be in suburban LA and will open later this year – showing women’s and men’s apparel, shoes, and accessories from a …
Mvix’s V3 Of CMS Platform Buffs Up UX, But Puts Focus On Device Management, Security Features January 18, 2022 by Super User The DC-area digital signage software and solutions firm Mvix has announced a major version release of its enterprise platform that adds functionality and streamlines workflows, but perhaps most importantly focuses on mission-critical matters like device health management and security. A pretty, friendly UX is always nice, but on networks that have 100s or 1,000s of …
The Normally Big NRF Retail Show Is Happening In New York, And Appears To Doing OK January 17, 2022 by Super User Much of the attention as we have shifted into the new year and trade show season was focused on CES in Las Vegas, but that event is mainly about consumer technology. The tech-centric National Retail Federation show in New York is very arguably more relevant to the digital signage ecosystem, and it opened its exhibit …
CMS Software Start-Up Raydiant Acquires Dutch AI Computer Vision Spin-Out SightCorp January 13, 2022 by Super User More consolidation news today in the digital signage ecosystem, with word that San Francisco start-up Raydiant has acquired Amsterdam start-up SightCorp, giving the US CMS software firm in-house computer vision capabilities. Raydiant, which describes itself as an in-location experience management platform (that’s a new one!), also gets more of a footprint into the EU, where …
DOOH Network Targeting US Grocery Shoppers Adds 4,000 Screens In US Northeast January 13, 2022 by Super User The advertising screens in the grocery checkout lane thing has been around 20 years or more, and never seemingly had a lot of success … but an Austin, Texas start-up called Grocery TV appears to be getting traction. The company has announced a deal to add some 4,000 displays in a series of northeast US …
As Expected, CES 2022 Attendance A Fraction Of Pre-Pandemic Throngs January 10, 2022 by Super User No one will be surprised to learn last week’s CES didn’t draw anywhere near as many attendees as it was doing prior to the pandemic, but what’s arguably surprising is that some 40,000 people DID go – given the way omicron is spreading like mad everywhere. Of those 40,000 or so, there were 1,800 global …
CES Doesn’t Look Anything Like Usual, But It’s Not A Ghost Town Either January 6, 2022 by Super User There was a huge amount of speculation in the past month or so about whether this week’s CES show would even happen, and if it did, would anyone attend? It’s on, and there are people. Not the usual hordes that cause line-ups for everything and force you to pay $300/night for a hotel room that …
That Shade-Shifting Beemer At CES Is Coated In E Ink Film January 6, 2022 by Super User If you pay attention to news and images from CES this week, you have likely seen photos and short videos of a BMW concept car being shown in Las Vegas that can change from black to white on the fly. It’s kind of wild to see, and I assumed it was some sort of technology …
