Digital Trends Showcase Moves Down Road To The Falls For 2016 July 21, 2016 by Super User The guys who do the annual Digital Trends Showcase in Toronto – which has run each fall for the last few years – have moved on down the highway to Niagara Falls, Ontario for this year’s event. The event – which I’ve not been to for various scheduling or traffic avoidance reasons – puts several …
Boston Gets First E-Paper Wayfinding Sign July 21, 2016 by Super User Boston’s city hall plaza has what is being touted as the first e-paper wayfinding sign in the United States – a 32-inch electronic paper display that is daylight-readable and powered by solar. The ruggedized sign, mounted in a totem on the plaza, is aimed at providing visitors with information on local events and help residents …
Projects: Giant Interactive Wall Turns On At Smithsonian’s Flight Hall July 20, 2016 by Super User This is a massive new interactive video wall at the newly renovated Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It’s a 16- by 12-foot interactive media wall that prompts visitors to explore, collect, and save their favourite objects from the museum’s collection, using the museum mobile app. The project was put together …
Go Vertical, Or Go Home July 20, 2016 by Super User A few conversations in recent weeks have reinforced a conclusion I made some time ago about software and solutions companies in the digital signage business: they need to get vertical. Many companies, particularly the smaller ones, badly need to find a vertical market and make it their own. Being a generalist, in a field crowded with generalists, could be …
New York’s Subway System Resorts To Digital Messaging To Warn Distracted Pokemon Go Players July 20, 2016 by Super User Concerns about subway riders being dangerously distracted by their need to do whatever the hell they do with the red-hot Pokemon Go augmented reality mobile app has compelled MTA New York City Transit to start running safety messages on its On The Go Travel Station kiosk network. It’s a four and half foot drop to the …
5 Questions That Get Digital Signage Projects Off To A Solid Start July 20, 2016 by Super User So, you’ve been told you’re now in charge of your company’s first digital signage project, and having pounded “digital signage” into your browser’s search bar, you’re scouring the web looking for direction and advice. Digital signage doesn’t look all that complicated. Screens on walls. Content. Updated over the Internet. Easy-peasy. But something’s telling you that’s not quite true …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Pagnan, RP Visuals July 20, 2016 by Super User This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. In this conversation, done at last month’s InfoComm trade show in Las Vegas, Randy talks about the origins of his company …
16:9 Podcast Series: 21K Downloads, More Episodes On Way July 18, 2016 by Super User Just had a look at the stats and the 16:9 Podcasts series is now past 21,000 downloads. The host site shows far less than that in its count, but way more people pick up the RSS feed via iTunes, Google Play and podcast apps like PocketCast. Counting total downloads is a bit inexact, but 21K …
What Happens When People Obsess Over What Technology Does, Not What It Can Do July 18, 2016 by Niel Rieger Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud Back when I began to create websites in the late 90s I found I could create a website that had the time on it. So I put this clock ‘feature’ on a few websites. Actually, every single website. Back then, it was a big deal. A clock! On a website! …
Projects: True Religion Goes Digital On Carnaby Street July 14, 2016 by Super User The US denim jeans brand True Religion has opened a new small footprint, digital-heavy store concept on London’s Carnaby Street. The 2,500 sq ft shop, which opened in June, has a concept focused around a denim bar at the front of the shop, and uses digital screens that will showcase how the products are made, an interactive …
