Infocomm 2018 Day 2 Impressions June 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes LAS VEGAS – I didn’t think it was possible, but Fremont Street is even weirder than the last time I spent a night around there. The ride history feature on Lyft’s app is a very effective tool for dealing with the “What time did you get in?” question after a night on Fremont and elsewhere. …
InfoComm 2018 Day One Impressions June 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes LAS VEGAS – It’s very hot. The Las Vegas Convention Center has renovated the food services area in the north and central hall areas so it looks more polished and the options don’t all lead to desperation eating. But there’s still nowhere enough seating. AVIXA has a DJ playing dance music in the main entry …
LG To Show Its Full Color Transparent LED Film This Week At Infocomm June 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes North American pros will get a first look this week at Infocomm at the transparent color LED film that LG first showed a few months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. The film is touted as a way to turn any window or glass surface into a customizable digital canvas. If you were at Infocomm a year …
Sapient Razorfish Debuts Live Databloom At EU Money Conference June 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes Data visualization guru Mike Pell, who spoke a couple of years back at the DSrupted conference I ran in Toronto, talks about the difference between a visualization that is clearly beautiful, versus one that is beautifully clear. The big interactive agency SapientRazorfish is showing a digital installation this week at the Money2020 payments and financial …
Seven Industries That REALLY NEED Digital Signage June 4, 2018 by Samuel Mekonen Guest Post: Michal Lisewski, Merixstudio Modern software technologies such as HTML5 make interactive digital signage relatively cheap. As the first generation of digital natives enters the labor market, the expansion of the use of screens has become a necessity. This post looks article aims to point out seven major industries that could benefit more by …
Technology Is The Key To Brand Loyalty On The Changing High Street June 4, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Today’s newspapers are awash with daily stories of retailers having to transform their business models from yesteryear to stay afloat as our high streets evolve and customer habits and expectations change. Recent articles discussing the fate of the UK’s Mothercare, Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser are just …
Shenzhen Ops Center Gets 121-Foot Wide Fine Pitch Monitoring Wall June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes It hasn’t really happened in North America or, likely, EMEA, but in China, fine pitch LED is increasingly supplanting projection tiles, edge-blended projection and narrow bezels LCDs as the tech of choice for big control room environments. If the room is big enough and operators are set back enough, the clarity is there for …
Chicago Skyscraper’s Observatory Plans Appear To Bake In Vast LED Display Walls June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes I don’t really think of 16:9 as a lead identification tool for vendors, but here’s a pretty damn warm lead for integrators and direct view LED manufacturers: The AON Center is one of Chicago’s best-known office towers, with a position near Lake Michigan and overlooking the city’s vast Millennium Park, which attracts about 13 million …
Call Out For Digital Artists To Populate Digital Signage Screens At NYC’s Fulton Center June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes The team behind the massive digital signage network at the Fulton Center subway station in New York have put a call out for visual artists who want to show their new media work on many screens in and around the facility. MTA Arts & Design wants to “establish a deep pool of fresh new …
Lumipixels Cleverly Marries Motion LED Lighting With Fabric Branding Lightboxes June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges with being in an industry so long – even before it had a name – is getting jaded and a bit bored. I go to trade shows, like next week’s InfoComm, and mostly shrug. The stuff is amazing, beautiful, brighter, skinnier, lighter, faster … lots of things with “ers” on the …
