Amusement Parks Take Digital Signage For A Ride July 11, 2016 by Arjen Klijs Guest Post: Nir Doron, Novisign After almost a decade in the digital signage business, I’m accustomed to seeing displays up and running in many businesses and venues where there were never screens. But I still get surprised by things – like screens at amusement parks and state parks. They’ve followed the lead of other venues, …
Projects: Monster’s Nice Multimedia Charging Stations At ATL July 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is a nice example how a blend of digital display, analog print and necessary functionality can all blend together into an effective digital OOH ad piece. Monster Media has a campaign in bustling Atlanta Hartsfield Airport for Royal Caribbean International, the cruise ship company. The campaign has a series of smartphone charging stations on …
Digital Convergence, Interactivity And Personalization Key To Digital Signage’s Future July 8, 2016 by Richard Murton Guest Post: Cornelia Henkel, Advanced Digital Solutions The ongoing digital convergence of digital signage, IT, consumer electronics, telecommunications and the media industry will pose major challenges on system integration issues, but also promise to augment viewer experiences to a completely new stage. Digital signage will evolve to digital engagement, enabled by an increased interactivity between …
Could Truck Roll Limit Digital Signage Truck Rolls? July 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you work on the operations side of the digital signage business, you know all about the complications and cost of “rolling a truck” to visit a deployed site to get an outage resolved. Ideally, truck rolls are a last resort because you need to find qualified techs, schedule them in, and get ready for an …
Visionect’s Epaper Digital Door Signs Win Red Dot Industrial Design Award July 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. The competition attracted almost 5,200 entries this year, from 57 countries, and a look through the winners has …
Projects: Cafetiero Frames Up Its Digital Menus July 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is the digital menuboard set-up for a small German cafe chain called CAFETIERO, which is run by the exhibitions and event catering firm The Stockheim Group. The company uses 40-inch displays for menus, and nicely surrounds them in decorative picture frames. The landscape display panels run menu items and portrait screens run promotions. The company is also testing …
16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard July 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. Jennifer grabbed us a meeting space on the exhibit floor at InfoComm last month, and we …
Sign Up For July 12 Canonical Webinar On Emerging IoT Tech July 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you are interested in emerging tech you might want to set aside an hour next Tuesday, July 12, for a webinar I’m running with a couple of interesting UK-based companies. The session, put on by Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu Linux, features Nikodem Lacki, CTO of Boldmind, and Ebrahim Busheri, CEO of Lime SDR. …
The $100 Wintel Digital Signage PC July 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes A lot of traffic on this site continues to be generated by readers looking for low-cost digital signage player solutions – as in 100s of page views a day just for a round-up of Raspberry Pi options. I also see a lot of interest in posts involving Chrome devices and PC sticks. So a post …
Miami Fail July 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Spotted by an industry vet connecting through Miami’s airport … The wonky screen in the right has a notification message reminding the screen operator he or she can upgrade to Windows 10! It’s not that hard to disable this stuff, and avoid looking like a doofus.
