SEGD Offering BOGO Deal For Next Week’s Xlab in NYC October 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The annual Xlab conference is next week in New York, and the Society for Experiential Graphic Design people behind it are doing a last minute push to gets bums in all the seats at the theatre down in Chelsea where it’s run. There are tours and a mixer on Thursday and the big conference is …
Tokyo Lab Pushes Mind-Wobbling Possibilities For Projection Mapping October 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The big problem with projection mapping – apart from high costs and weather – was for quite some the technical challenge of aligning the projector or blended projectors precisely to a target projection surface. It got harder if the surface wasn’t flat. Software has fixed a lot of that, particularly projection-mapping software coming from companies …
France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays October 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or …
Digital Signage Summit Part Of InfoComm’s New York Event Nov. 9-10 October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes Much of the industry attention will be on NYC next week and the whole NY Digital Signage Week thing (will be in and out of that on an overnighter), but there’s another industry event planned for two weeks later in the city. InfoComm has a Connections trade show and conference set for the Javits Center …
E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, …
Samsung Launches Online Information Portal For Pro Displays October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you do product research, planning or consulting in digital signage, you will know it can be a bit of a struggle to poke around the Web to find all the information needed for things like displays. There are B2C sites and B2B sites, and sometimes neither have what you need. So this sort of …
SoftwareCo RMG Adds LED Display Side To Business October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. The Dallas-based company – kinda the v2 of the old Symon Communications, after some twists and turns from an acquisition – has announced RMG …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Chris Lydle, Google October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week I am speaking with Chris Lydle, who is the global lead for digital signage and kiosk activity at Google. We had a lengthy, very open chat about the what the technology giant is doing in the relatively small and narrowly defined digital signage market, how its technology fits in, and where things are going. He …
This Digital OOH Network Has Gone From Zero to 1,300 Sites Since April October 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes I don’t know how many fledgling out of home media companies – let’s just say MANY – have tried to make a go of putting digital OOH ad screens in bars. Most have failed, learning the hard way that the media ad sales is harder than it looks, and that getting revenues to reliably surpass …
Projects: New DC Bloomberg Offices Greet Visitors With Dynamic Visuals October 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice example of how to present real-time data in a visually interesting way. This is the elevator lobby of financial news giant Bloomberg’s new Washington, DC offices – the entrance flanked by a pair of video walls. The office is a hub for about 250 staff in the US capitol. Montreal’s Telecine, which has …
