Visionect’s E-Paper Business Evolving To Be End-To-End Solutions Provider January 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Slovenian tech company Visionect has announced something of a pivot in its business, shifting the focus from being hardware-led to offering an end-to-end solution based around its deep expertise in e-paper digital displays. For over 12 years, says the company, we have been using e-paper to transform locations into smart living spaces – a mission …
Signagelive Adds Low-Cost Restricted Version Of CMS Licence For Simple Web-based Content January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes The guys at UK-based Signagelive have always had a knack for both reading the market, being early to add emerging technologies and tweaking its product offer to stay relevant and interesting. The latest move is introducing a heavily-discounted version of its already inexpensive SaaS licensing, restricting the functionality to web URLs and web apps. This …
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa Adds Cracking Virtual Glass Floor, Driven By Sensors January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes I always have mixed feelings around visual tricks designed to scare the living sh*t out of some unwitting visitors. It’s one thing if you are in a theme park or one of those Halloween pop-up places that are billed as scary. But introducing an abrupt scare into something that is, by nature, intimidating is one …
PORTL Founder David Nussbaum Explains Tech Behind His Hologram-Ish Displays January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes David Nussbaum has years invested in the whole idea of creating what are called holograms – but aren’t – for high profile concerts and other events. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. …
STRATACACHE Reconsidering ISE2020 Stands Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak January 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Seeing a lot of reader activity on my post Monday about ISE and the possible ramifications of the coronavirus outbreak in central China. I have been checking the ISE site and social feeds and seen no official comment on the situation, but there are outright calls being made to ask Chinese-based companies NOT to send …
Montreal’s FinTech Station Uses Digital Signage Network To Inform Tenants, Guests January 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a good example of a modest, but nicely executed workplace communications network in a two-storey Montreal office space. It is at Montreal FinTech Station, a startup-y, incubator space for companies doing financial technologies. The solution – both digital signage and targeted audio – was put in by Montreal-based iGotcha Media. Newly-opened at 4 …
New Portable Projection Mapping Unit Launched For Guerrilla Marketers January 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Glasgow-based NomadiX Media – most known for its wearable digital signage displays – has unveiled a new product designed to enable easy guerrilla marketing via portable projection. The iProjector Halo is a self-contained projector/media player/speaker unit that’s touted as being light enough to hand-carry and set up on a tripod, to blast images on spare …
How Might Coronavirus Impact ISE Exhibitors And Attendees? January 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes With ISE just a couple of weeks out now, it’s hard not to wonder about the prospects of wandering around the tight, confusing confines of the RAI in Amsterdam – and jamming into subways and trams – with 80,000 attendees, many from China. I have been going to the show for several years now, and …
Topgolf Debuts SIM-based Lounge Concept, With LED Digital Sky January 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes Topgolf has already pretty much reinvented the idea of driving ranges, and now the company has launched a new product that takes on a related golf category, indoor facilities built around simulators. The Lounge by Topgolf shares the same base concept as the indoor sim-driven facilities you might have in your town or city, but …
Laura Davis-Taylor Joins InReality As Analytics’ Firm’s Chief Strategy Officer January 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes Anyone who knows Laura Davis-Taylor knows she is passionate about retail and particularly about technologies that can do the kind of measurement that provides conclusive measurement on whether whatever’s being done in-store is actually working. She’s been trying to do that first-hand, lately, through something called the Living Retail Lab – a unique store in …
