Digital Signage Gets Hosed Down August 3, 2016 by Super User Whether this is better termed a kiosk than digital signage could be debated endlessly, but what’s more interesting here is how a company has figured out a way to make projected capacitive touchscreen technology to work reliably in the crazily harsh environment of a car wash. Cleaning equipment manufacturer Nilfisk has developed with touch overlay maker …
How Local Businesses Can Use Digital Signage To Attract Pokémon Go Fans August 3, 2016 by Niel Rieger Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud If you were ever a fan of Pokémon as a kid or teenager, you’ll know about Pokémon Go, a new app developed by Niantic. Pokémon Go creates an augmented reality experience (something virtual appearing in the real world), to allow you to chase Pokémon characters all over town, to lure …
ComQi Integrates Panasonic’s Light ID Smartphone Tech August 3, 2016 by Super User Panasonic and ComQi have worked out a partnership to market technology that connects smartphones with digital signage displays, using encoded light signals embedded in the screens. Panasonic’s Light ID technology works a bit like QR codes or bar codes, in that consumers who have an app loaded in their phones can easily pull down information that …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Rotberg, Invidis August 3, 2016 by Super User This week I’m speaking with Florian Rotberg, the managing director at the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis. Florian talks about the background of his company, and his impressions of the global digital signage market. Rotberg goes into detail about the differences between the North American and European/EMEA market, and the challenges American and …
Projects: NanoLumens’ 1.8 mm LED Supplants LCD Wall For DIRTT August 2, 2016 by Super User There’s nothing about this installation that’s going to set hearts racing, but it’s a vivid example of how direct view LED is starting to supplant LCD when it comes to video walls. Calgary-based DIRTT Environmental Solutions, which makes pre-fabricated workplace interiors, has switched out the 2×4 LCD video wall matrix that was in the lobby of its …
Hackers Take Over Digital Signage, Audio At Vietnam Airports August 1, 2016 by Super User When digital signage systems get hacked, the perpetrators tend to go to the 12-year-old psyches and they replaced marketing messages with naughty videos. But a cyber attack went in a very different, highly political direction last week in Vietnam – when hackers posted political messages on the digital signage displays at Vietnam’s two largest airports, as well …
Projects: Have A Look At The Largest Outdoor LED Wall in South China August 1, 2016 by Super User Massive LED billboards are by no means found only, these days, in world capitals and insane places like Las Vegas. This is a an 1,855 square metre LED wrapped around a building in the south China city of Shantou, up the coastline from Hong Kong (if that helps). Touted as the largest outdoor LED in south …
Stratacache Buys Vertigo’s Drive-Thru Display Business From Civiq July 29, 2016 by Super User Dayton, Ohio-based STRATACACHE has acquired the Outdoor Digital Menuboard product line and intellectual property from Civiq Smartscapes, which picked that up when it bought Vertigo Digital Displays a few weeks ago. Civiq is in the smart cities-interactive public screens space, and I wouldn’t think there’d be much of a chance it would one day branch into outdoor displays …
Projects: Me To We’s First Bricks & Mortar Store Packs In A Lot Of Digital July 29, 2016 by Super User Most small footprint retail spaces tend to have little or no digital inside its doors, but a new socially-conscious store in Toronto’s Eaton Center goes big with digital display to tell its store and drive interest and reactions. The just opened Me To We store was developed is the first bricks and mortar presence for …
16:9 Podcast Series, John Wang, IAdea July 27, 2016 by Super User In this episode, John Wang, the CEO of Taipei-based IAdea, talks about the roots of his company, which primarily makes commercial-grade media players and all-in-one devices for the digital signage market. He recalls starting up the business right out of school in Taiwan, and unfortunately timing that startup right when the first Internet bubble burst. Wang …
