Projects: Massive Curved Displays At Minneapolis Convention Center March 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Minneapolis Convention Center now markets to visitors using a pair of massive 5mm pixel pitch LED NanoLumens that curve around bulkheads at the facility. Installed late last fall, the NanoCurve displays cover an area 5 feet high by 90 feet wide. They were put in by Minneapolis-based Tierney Brothers Integration. The displays were schemed into …
How The Internet of Things Delivers Experiential Wayfinding March 28, 2015 by MohamedGhalayini Guest Post: Chris Wiegand, Jibestream The ‘Internet of Things’ is a popular term bouncing around the technology sector at the moment. In fact this section of the market is earmarked for extraordinary growth; predictions are putting it at the largest device market in the world by 2019. In its simplest form, the Internet of things …
BroadSign Gets Out Of Digital OOH Box March 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes BroadSign has for many years mined the digital OOH side of this business, to the point that you don’t really think of the signage software being used outside of advertising. But it is. Case in point: The Montreal company has announced a partnership it has worked with Scandinavian solutions provider LCD Media, which is operating primarily in …
Projects: Giant Convex Wall In UK Corporate Lobby March 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is what German display manufacturer Eyevis is touting as the largest convex curved video wall in Europe, set up at the new mass spectrometry headquarters of the analytical instruments company Waters Corporation in Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK. The 3.8 metres x 2.2 metres display wall welcomes Waters visitors in the reception area, and features 48 eyevis omniSHAPES rear …
Armodilo Rethinks Retail Tablet Enclosures March 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Tablet stand and enclosure manufacturer Armodilo Display Solutions will be rolling a slick new wall-mounted enclosure for tablets this spring that pretty dramatically rethinks the idea of sticking an iPad or other tab in a protective frame. The new set-up, called LITE, is based on Armodilo’s AURA kiosk design. It shifts the set-up to a …
Behold The $39 Digital Signage Player March 23, 2015 by Dave Haynes A Texas start-up called Signagely has started marketing its digital signage offer, which ranges from a $159 Chromebox at the top end to a $39 Kindle Fire TV HDMI stick they’ve got working as a basic player. The start-up’s website doesn’t have a lot of detail in it on the company background, or what’s different …
Aussie Newcomer StratosMedia’s Chrome Signage Product Targets Enterprise Business March 23, 2015 by Dave Haynes When I walk the DSE show floor I tend to wander up to booths for companies I knew little or nothing about, particularly if they’re doing something that gets my eyebrows up a bit. One of those companies a couple of weeks ago was StratosMedia – which intrigued me for two reasons: they were among the eight companies …
Raspberry Pi 2 Gets Free Windows 10 Licensing – What That Means In Digital Signage March 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes Microsoft has confirmed its new Windows 10 operating system will be made available free to developers working on the low-cost Raspberry Pi micro PC board. The Pi 2 is among a series of small footprint Internet of Things, or IoT, devices that will be offered a version of the new OS. In a company blog post Wednesday, Microsoft said …
Projects: LA LA LAND in LA LA Land March 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes Me and the boss took a side trip to Los Angeles several days ahead of DSE, for a few reasons: Get the f#ck out of the cold and snow; Take some meetings; Let her see LA for the 1st time. We did some obligatory sightseeing, including the freak show sidewalk scene in Hollywood, where we …
23 Digital Signage Software Options For Chromebox & Google March 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes Updated: March 2019 Tech giant Google has been active in the digital signage space for the last two years, with dedicated business development, product management and channel management resources, and the company has had a substantial presence at the last two Digital Signage Expo trade shows in Las Vegas, most recently in March 2016. This …
