Joan E Ink Door Signs Honored In CES Innovation Awards November 11, 2015 by Super User The massive CES trade show in Las Vegas is just weeks away, and ahead of it each year, the newly renamed Consumer Technology Association runs an innovation showcase for selected products. There are dozens of honorees, for all kinds of tech and gadgets, and among them for 2016 is the Joan Meeting Room Assistant (or Joan), …
Live Data Is Great, But Clutter, Not So Much November 11, 2015 by Super User I really like the automated content approach and utility that start-up TransitScreen is bringing to digital signage, however I can’t help but think the cluttered layout rule that applies to every other kind of digital signage should apply with this stuff, as well. In short, there’s way too much going on at once on those screens. …
Projects: Using Slick Kiosks To Change Company Culture November 11, 2015 by Super User This is an interesting take on how something as simple as a kiosk pedestal can influence company culture. The gaming company Kabam redesigned the lobby of its San Francisco offices to celebrate the completion of a new product Star Wars: Uprising, it did up a Star Wars scene and layered in a pair of illuminated tablet-powered AURA kiosks from …
Projects: The Space Needle’s 20-Foot Wide SkyPad November 10, 2015 by Super User The CBS Morning News had a piece this morning about new technologies that have spruced up the 53-year-old Space Needle tower in Seattle, and the element that caught my eye was something it calls the SkyPad. Developed and guided by the local studio Belle & Wissell, the SkyPad interactive wall is a set of tiled …
Projects: A&W Canada Goes Digital With Menus November 9, 2015 by Super User A&W Food Services of Canada Inc, or A&W as we’re going to call them, has announced it is going digital with its menus at the roughly 850 stores across the Frozen North. The rollout has already started, running on software and services, like creative, from Cineplex Digital Networks, aka EK3. “We are extremely pleased with our …
ScreenHub Joins Crowded Digital Signage CMS Market With Platform Touted As Free November 9, 2015 by Super User It is fairly remarkable that a teeny little tech sector like digital signage has 100s of software options for doing variations on the same thing, and even more remarkable that as observers like me steadily suggest the numbers will thin out, they instead keep growing! I don’t get it. But as a consultant who gets …
Projects: Billboard Mapping In Milan November 9, 2015 by Super User Via Av Magazine Here’s an interesting spin on projection mapping, that addresses what to do about the marketing investment when the sun is up. In this case, two traditional billboards facing each other across a square in Milan have static messaging by day and motion by night, the billboards lit up by long throw projector …
Heading To Dubai November 9, 2015 by Super User I’m speaking at a Customer Engagement Technology Conference in a couple of weeks in Dubai. It’s one of those places I’ve wanted to see, and also a place that I gather has a lot shaking in the digital signage sector. My talk is Nov. 25th at the event, which I don’t think has any ties to …
Up Close Look At E Ink’s Prism Tech November 9, 2015 by Super User E Ink was showing its Prism programmable tech at the SEGD XLAB event last week in New York – at a micro-booth right beside the transparent OLED that Planar was showing off. It was a study in extremes – but a reminder, as well, that both simple and very sophisticated display tech can have a …
Ad:Tech Lightning Tour November 9, 2015 by Super User I had about three hours last week to zip up and down the aisles of Ad:Tech New York, and three hours was plenty if you are not in the online ad business. It’s all about ad networks and programmatic advertising and things like predictive marketing, of which I know absolutely zip. I go because there is …
