Holographic Display On Coming Smartphone A Precursor To Larger Digital Signage Versions? September 8, 2017 by Super User A spin-off from HP Labs is working with RED – the high-def digital camera guys – to release a smartphone that features a holographic display – a glimpse at tech that also has digital signage touted as a use-case. Red Digital Cinema is working with Leia Inc on what’s being billed as the world’s first …
Luis Is Back From Holiday, And He’s Broke And (Still) Cranky September 8, 2017 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler It’s been a long summer… and I have fully enjoyed it. I have worked half-days since early June, and taken about five weeks worth of holidays. If I have to go to the beach again, I will literally jump out a window. I started September in economic distress (traveling with …
Digital Signage Display Market Forecasted To Grow By 18% Annually September 7, 2017 by Super User The digital signage display market is expected to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.2% over the next four years, with the biggest growth coming in displays that are 65-inches or larger. The forecast comes from research firm IHS Markit, one of a small handful of companies that actually invests real time, people and …
Cruise Line Uses 25-Foot LED Vortex As Centerpiece September 6, 2017 by Super User Here’s an interesting example of how three-dimensional visuals and crazy idea can be baked into content and served up on a very unusual display canvas – in this case the central court of a monster cruise ship. This is a 25 foot tall vortex-shaped LED column in the atrium of the Carnival Vista, a ship …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Douglas-Beveridge, SmartContent.TV September 6, 2017 by Super User If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. The most heavily used slider out there comes from a German company …
UK Town’s Shiny New Digital Information Station Hijacked With Porn Site September 5, 2017 by Super User Via Telford Live The person behind a local news portal in Telford, UK, northwest of Birmingham, came across one of the combined wayfinding and digital media totems in the town centre, and noticed the community information normally running on the screen had been replaced by a gallery of naughty video thumbnails. The writer notes this …
Chinese Restaurant Launches With Kiosks That Enable Ordering And Payment Via Facial Recognition September 5, 2017 by Super User Self-service ordering stations on touch-driven displays are getting mainstreamed by giant QSRs like McDonald’s, but a Chinese company tied in with KFC is taking the tech a step further by building facial recognition and payments into the screens. Yum China Holdings has launched a new restaurant concept, KPRO by KFC, in Hangzhou, China (near Shanghai) …
Projects: 7-Metre-Wide High Street Window LED Kicks Off New Boot September 4, 2017 by Super User As seen on Linkedin This is a nice temporary installation in a high street window, in central London, using a one metre tall by seven metres wide fine pitch LED wall to highlight the launch of a new boot by Clarks Shoes. I like how the design team used print graphics to frame the digital …
Columbus Convention Center Expansion Includes 7 by 60 Wide LED Wall September 2, 2017 by Super User Turns out that 14-foot LED selfie head isn’t the only big digital feature turned on at the convention center in Columbus, Ohio. There’s also a 7-foot tall by 60 wide fine pitch LED wall in the building, put together by solutions provider Coffman Media and running Signagelive’s CMS. It’s part of a $140 million upgrade to …
Eyes Open For Giant 14-Foot LED Selfie Head At Columbus, OH Convention Center September 1, 2017 by Super User I like how fine pitch LED is making for some highly creative displays – like this giant head that opened its eyes last night at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in Columbus, Ohio. The LED head electronics were manufactured by SNA Displays, and the structure and integration was by Design Communications Ltd. This is a …
