CMS Companies Using AI To Optimize, Not Innovate … Arguably At Their Peril February 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes Content partners invidis have an interesting post up this morning – translated from German – that reflects how digital signage CMS and solutions companies are applying AI to their businesses. In short, companies are mostly using it to optimize what they already do and offer, as opposed to innovating. The company’s most recent quarterly Digital …
German Company’s Gamified LED Walls Designed To Take Steady Impacts Of Kicked Soccer Balls February 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes It doesn’t seem that long ago that LED video walls often had the sort of line-up barriers you see at airports set up in front of them, to keep people from getting too near the displays, because the little LED light packages were just soldered in place and very easily damaged. Fast forward to today, …
Aussie Online Beauty Retailer Adds First Physical Store With 100+ Screens In Small Footprint Space February 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Australian retailer Adore Beauty, which sells guess what, is another story about a company that starts online and eventually decides to add physical locations, and in this case, purpose-built stores dominated by screens.Adore Beauty recently opened its first physical store in suburban Melbourne, using an omni-channel management software platform that does online, mobile and …
Smart Navigation Firm PAM Wins Coveted Slot In Influential US Sports Tech Incubator Program February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Aussie wayfinding firm PAM has pitched its way into what could be a very lucrative six-month tech incubator program run by media and sports giant Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech. The R&D program “identifies and cultivates emerging companies from around the world to drive their growth and shape the sports industry, while creating a space for …
Amazon Opens Screen-Filled Bricks And Mortar “Parapharmacy” Store In Milan February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Online shopping and fulfillment giant Amazon has opened its first bricks and mortar store in Italy – a health and beauty store in Milan’s city centre filled with screens. The Amazon Parafarmacia Beauty store opened Feb. 12th, featuring a “curated” selection of beauty and personal care products from brands including Eucerin, La Roche-Posay, Vichy, Avène, …
Omdia’s ISE 2025 Pro Display Recap Suggests, Among Many Things, The Race To Finest LED Pixel Pitch Has Stalled February 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia has pushed out a recap of the pro display side of ISE 2025, which was run earlier this month in Barcelona. The company, which like other credible research firms sends analysts around the halls to meet with manufacturers, offers up the recap as a free read, but you have to register. …
Intuitive AI Deploys First Screen-Driven Trash Sorter At Boston Logan February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The podcast now up on Sixteen:Nine is about a Vancouver company called Intuitive AI that blends image recognition with digital signage and DOOH to come up with a recycling assistant for trash bins in busy public spaces. The company already has a lot of deployments, and now has one operating at Boston’s Logan International Airport …
Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
Captivate, Videri Partner On Sleek Display Canvases For Common Spaces In Office Towers February 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes More than 25 years ago now, I left the daily newspaper business because it was pretty clear what the Internet would do to it, and I puzzled the hell out of colleagues by saying I was going to work for a start-up that puts screens in elevators that ran news interspersed with paid advertising. At …
Japanese Researchers Developing Energy-Sipping Display Tech Based Around … Clay??? February 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes Japanese researchers have developed a new type of energy-sipping display that uses clay-based materials and allows displays, including ones large enough to at least theoretically be used for digital signage, to both emit light and change color, making them readable whether people are looking at them in bright sunlight or darkness. I am decoding this …
