FDA’s Food Menu Label Regulations Are Finally In Effect. What That Means For Digital Signage Vendors May 7, 2018 by Super User The US Food and Drug Administration’s much-discussed, often-delayed regulations for food menu labeling are now finally, formally, in place as of today. The FDA regulations require grocers and restaurants with 20 or more locations to list calorie counts for their menu items, and are seen as a way of harmonizing a mish-mash of different requirements …
Aisle-Topper LED Ribbons For Hershey In Big Box Retailing May 7, 2018 by Super User Not a huge fan of shelf-level LED strips because the resolution isn’t there for close viewing, and the little LED light chips will get the crap beat out of them, but I do like the big aisle-topper ribbon display implementation at a big-box store somewhere, by the LA-area company AWM Smart Shelf. To be fair, …
NoviSign Adds Sharp SoC Android Displays To Digital Signage Solution Set May 7, 2018 by Super User The Israeli digital signage software shop NoviSign now has its platform and media player running on Sharp’s Open Architecture system-on-chip displays. The company’s online Studio editor runs on the new Sharp 40 and 50-inch PN series 24/7 displays. “For the last several months, NoviSign’s engineering team has been working closely with SIICA to test NoviSign’s …
Freelance AV Tech Marketplace AV Junction Tops 1,000 Members May 7, 2018 by Super User AV Junction, the start-up that’s set up a dedicated online marketplace connecting AV freelancers with hiring companies like integrators, now says it has more than 1,000 entries in its database and is helping get work done globally. Founder Paul Weatherhead says he’ll have a booth at InfoComm 2018 in early June and will be launching software …
Industry Experts Rate Most Important Digital Signage Innovations And Considerations May 7, 2018 by Super User Hat Tip to Digital Signage Pulse for picking up on this … Samsung’s public information display group, presumably the European wing, did a survey with its digital signage industry panel following ISE 2018, asking 40 or so industry people what they saw and what excited them at the show. Not surprisingly, the bling of The Wall …
The Screen Guy And The Power Of Chocolate May 4, 2018 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler I was lucky enough to volunteer at my daughter’s school to talk about my job. I am saying lucky because most people don’t really know nor understand what I do … so to say the least, I really surprised them. Imagine how it is, that when we opened the new …
Heathrow Airport Puts Star Wars Destinations On FIDS Displays For #MayTheFourth Day May 4, 2018 by Super User This is apparently May The 4th Be With You day – a fun Star Wars riff on the famous movie line, May The Force Be With You. May 4th – May The 4th – May The Force … get it? This admission may forever shame me among my nerd industry friends, but when I was …
ONELAN Acquired By Hotel-Focused Solutions Provider Uniguest May 4, 2018 by Super User The UK-based digital signage CMS company ONELAN has been acquired Uniguest, a Nashville-based company best known for operating the business centers in hotels, across several major chains. The acquisition, says a press release, will strengthen ONELAN’s presence in the U.S., with customers and partners benefiting from Uniguest’s team of 180 US-based staff and a further 75-person …
Reflect Teams With Universus Media On Auto Dealer-Focused Digital Signage Solutions May 4, 2018 by Super User An auto industry-focused media publisher in Toronto and the Dallas-based CMS and solutions provider Reflect have formed a strategic alliance aimed directly at providing in-store solutions for auto dealers. “This alliance makes it much easier for dealerships to bring a broad range of digital media into their stores, and for automotive manufacturers to incorporate digital content …
Tech Mash-Up Blasts Interactive Fan Pix On Lux Hong Kong Hotel Facade May 3, 2018 by Super User Here’s a cool video showing how projection mapping, holograms, virtual and real light painting were mashed up for an interactive experience piece that was part of the Lumieres HK festival in Hong Kong. The LUX Experience gave visitors to Lumieres Hong Kong the chance to make light art and have it blasted on to a …
