Touch Taiwan Day 2 Impressions – More On The Challenge Of Micro LED August 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes One of the reasons I accepted the invitation to come to Taipei for Touch Taiwan – the other one being soup dumplings – was a chance to invest some time talking to manufacturers and getting an update on where LED display technology is at. While China is without a doubt the epicenter of direct view …
Day One Impressions From Touch Taiwan – Mini And Micro LED On Rise August 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Well this was going to be a pain in the butt, I thought, as I went through airport-level security screening to get into the exhibit hall Wednesday for the first day of Touch Taiwan. There were scanners and bag checkers and line-ups. Then I realized Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, was at the opening of the …
Dan Baker Of AVI Systems On What It Takes To Get A Digital Signage Project Properly Planned August 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes If you are on the solutions side of the digital signage business, you have likely, at some point, had to open up and look over an RFP document from an end-user, quietly praying it won’t be too onerous and/or stupid. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click …
Spectrio Acquires In-Store Interactive Digital Signage Firm VS Networks August 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes The US-based in-store marketing solutions firm Spectrio has acquired/merged with VS Networks, a Chicago company that appears to do digital signage and interactive screens for brands in retail environments, like hardware stores. Spectrio says the deal means it now powers more than 50,000 screens that drive in-store sales and create engaging customer experiences. Says a …
It’s Showing Its Age, But This Taiwan Bank’s Lobby Has One Of The Best Digital Signage Installs On The Planet August 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes It’s showing its age a bit, but an experiential media installation in Taipei is easily one of the best digital signage projects I’ve seen … anywhere. IAdea’s John Wang ran me over from his office in a tech-heavy office park to a big office tower complex that is home to the financial services firm China …
That LED Barge Bobbing Around Manhattan Now Limited To Static Ads August 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Via Billboard Insider … That floating LED billboard barge that’s been bobbling along the waterways surrounding Manhattan now has to comply with the same sorts of rules and regs for LED boards on New York highways. New legislation signed by that state’s governor effectively says ads running on the screen have to be static – …
A Look Around Taipei, From A Digital Signage POV August 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes I am in Taipei all this week for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, which opens Wednesday. I got in Sunday so I could look around, get some meetings in ahead of the show, and try to overcome a 13-hour time difference. First two things worked. But it is 2 AM and I am bug-eyed, …
Invidis Finds A Near-Perfect Digital Signage Project In Moscow Airport August 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes Florian Rotberg, of the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis, is almost constantly traveling, and sees a whole lot of stuff. He passed through Moscow recently and in the wake of that trip, published what he calls an Invidis “site inspection” of the LED installations that have gone in at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. …
Wayfinding’s Jibestream Acquired By Indoor Positioning Firm Inpixon August 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes Toronto’s Jibestream, one of the early entrants in the shopping mall and campus mapping/wayfinding space, has been acquired by a Silicon Valley company known for its indoor positioning analytics. Jibestream will be familiar to a number of digital signage solutions companies and when it first started about 10 years ago, was doing everything from the …
LED Light Bars Turn Chicago Parkade Into Dynamic-Data Light Show August 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is kinda sorta digital signage, and kinda not, but an interesting take on blending building lighting with dynamic data feeds to create a constantly changing visual canvas. The side of a parking garage in Chicago’s central business district now has a 95-foot-long weather art installation called Sensing Change, that converts real-time weather data into …
