Back At HQ Desk After East Coast Swing July 17, 2017 by Super User Back at HQ after a couple of weeks away, out on Canada’s east coast. I am thinking about relocating the business, and life, there for a bunch of reasons, and spending some time out there was helpful. Toronto was one big traffic jam when we approached it on the way home Friday afternoon, and that …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Robin Carlisle, Framestore Labs July 12, 2017 by Super User Robin Carlisle is Global Head of Creative for Framestore Labs, a UK-based creative technology shop that specializes in making beautiful and cinematic real-time visuals. Framestore Labs is part of a larger company, Framestore, that has been doing amazing visuals for years. For example, that’s Framestore’s work in movies like Gravity, which somehow imagineers what happens …
Today And Tomorrow: Digital Signage Trends July 5, 2017 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix There’s really no escaping it – digital signage is here, and here to stay. It’s becoming so commonplace that people are starting to expect it when they enter a facility. Soon enough, places that don’t have digital signage will seem quaint and old-fashioned, or sadly out of touch with the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Steve Rickless, Tripleplay July 5, 2017 by Super User Steve Rickless, one of the founders of the UK firm Tripleplay, believes likes a lot of people that technology is converging, and thinks his company is in a good spot because it has already converged its technology. The company started in IP television for the corporate market, but by 2008 was doing a blended hardware …
Provision’s Floating 3D Holographic Coupon Station Going Into Ohio Drug Store Chain June 30, 2017 by Super User LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies continues to find clients that get excited about its technology that shows consumer floating products in mid-air, as a carrot to get shoppers to use a coupon center. The company has announced a deal to put its proprietary 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores around Ohio. The chain currently has …
Milestone AV Acquired By France’s Legrand June 28, 2017 by Super User The French building infrastructure firm Legrand has acquired Milestone AV Technologies, the Minneapolis-based parent company of several big pro AV brands like Chief, Sanus and DA-Lite. “Legrand is committed to serving the professionally installed AV industry which is an attractive growth area driven by the advancement and expansion of video applications,” says John Selldorff, President …
IAdea Ships Small Smart Displays With Built-In Meeting Room Availability Light Bars June 28, 2017 by Super User The meeting room signs market has grown to a point now that hardware manufacturers now make red and green LED colour bars part of the regular kit they sell with small, all-in-one displays. It wasn’t long ago, at all, that digital meeting room signs were pretty much done with consumer tablets or small open-frame LCDs. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Meric Adriansen, D3 June 28, 2017 by Super User I find, more and more, that some of the more successful companies in this business are a bit like stealth submarines. They run silent and deep, and you don’t hear much about them or see them around. That would apply pretty nicely to D3, a New York company that is in the LED display business. …
NEC Donates 2,000+ Displays To Charity Hospital Ship June 27, 2017 by Super User NEC Display Solutions of America has stepped up in a big way to indirectly help sick and injured people in some of the poorest places on the planet, making a gift-in-kind donation of more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays to Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries. NEC Display will …
Panasonic, TransitScreen Form Smart City Alliance June 27, 2017 by Super User Panasonic and TransitScreen have formed a strategic alliance that gives the North American wing of the Japanese tech company access to transport data to use in some of its smart city applications, marketed under a platform called CityNOW. The agreement, says a press release, will provide city residents and visitors with real-time transit and transportation information …
