Projects: Spanish Tile Manufacturer’s Giant LED Lobby Wall In NYC November 6, 2015 by Super User I was walking back from a dinner in New York the other night, and passing byMadison Square Park, saw this very large, very crisp, very beautiful LED wall installation in the lobby of a period office building. It is the US headquarters building for the Spanish ceramic tile manufacturer PORCELANOSA, and the fine pixel pitch …
Planar’s Gorgeous See-Thru OLED Starts Shipping By February November 6, 2015 by Super User The premium commercial display company Planar will have a transparent OLED panel on the market in roughly thee months, and has started showing the unit at special events like yesterday’s SEGD XLAB conference in New York. I was at that event – moderating the retail panel – and saw the 55-inch OLED in the lobby. …
Taggalo Mashes Up Beacons, WiFi And Video Analytics To Tell Retailers What Shoppers Are Up To November 2, 2015 by Super User The Italian/UK start-up Taggalo has launched a new gadget and service it says blends three technologies to provide retailers and brands richer insights about consumer behavior and interests in the aisles. The device combines a camera that does face pattern detection, a sensor for WiFi tracking and a Bluetooth beacon. The device spits out analytics …
Projects: 106 Feet Of Indoor LED At Salesforce HQ November 2, 2015 by Super User Part of the renovations done at the Fremont Street, San Francisco offices of CRM software giant Salesforce was a vast hi-rez LED wall on the lobby wall outside the elevator banks. The company used 4 mm pixel pitch LED modules, which rolls up to some 7 million pixels on a canvas 106 feet wide by …
Google Says ChromeOS Here To Stay; Chromebit Called Signage In A Stick November 2, 2015 by Super User The guy who runs Google’s ChromeOS AND Android programs has followed up on a tweet last week and in more detail reiterated that despite the buzz in tech blogs, ChromeOS and therefore Chrome devices are not getting killed off. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s SVP Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast, writes on the Google for Work blog: Over …
ScreenCloud Fires Up Digital Signage Option For Smart TVs November 2, 2015 by Super User Several of the big display manufacturers – starting with Samsung – have adapted their consumer smart TV platforms to create commercial-focused “smart signs” that have media players included with screens, but a London, UK-based digital agency is now offering a cloud-based signage platform that works on the sort of smart TVs people pick up at local big …
Show + Tell Debuts Totally Free Digital Signage Player App For Newest Apple TV October 30, 2015 by Super User The New York-based digital signage agency/solutions provider Show + Tell is known for working on very big canvases, like the screens up the street from them in Times Square. But the company has just released a decidedly different product called Video Sign Player – a free, entry-level signage player app that runs on the newest version …
Google’s Evolving Future In Digital Signage October 30, 2015 by Super User The digital signage ecosystem has developed at least two distinct camps, with distinct points of view, about the presence of tech giant Google in this relatively teeny industry. On one hand, there are people like me who think a company with a huge impact and footprint on the everyday working and personal lives of billions …
Uber Competitor Gett Using Digital OOH Screens To Optimize Messaging In NYC Campaign October 29, 2015 by Super User I wonder sometimes if there is more blah-blah going on about real-time, hyper-targeted Digital OOH campaigns than actual executions, but here’s an example of a brand pushing immediacy and relevance through the medium. Gett is an on-demand car service building up its user base and competing with Uber, Lift and taxi companies in New York …
Raspberry Pi Gets Custom Manufacturing October 28, 2015 by Super User Web traffic tells me there are a lot of people out there interested in using Raspberry Pi micro-computer boards as digital signage players, since it is possible to put together a player for less than $100. That crowd will be interested in news that the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s commercial subsidiary, Raspberry Pi Trading, will offer the main …
