Sighting: Oregon college Cascades its interactive digital signage June 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes I really like a combined interactive installation put together for the University of Oregon’s Ford Alumni Center in Eugene – as it makes a nice use of shapes and offers a simple but hard to ignore user experience. The install, developed by the interactive design firm Second Story, involves a set of multi-touch LCD …
InfoComm follow-up: Salitek's 16 by 4 video wall June 20, 2011 by Dave HaynesVideo walls, I both heard and saw, are big business at the moment for the AV crowd that packed InfoComm last week. There were a few BIG walls here and there but the one that caught my eye was one from Chicago’s Salitek, which used 64 Orion zero-bezel plasmas in a 16 wide by four …
InfoComm 2011 Wrap-up June 20, 2011 by Dave HaynesBack at world HQ, where it is 20 degrees F cooler and my thoughts extend beyond sources of water and/or beer. Orlando did not seem as hot and humid as it did two years ago, but still … The final event numbers for InfoComm 2011 eclipsed 33,000, so this is a show that is roughly …
NanoLumens wins big US breakthrough tech award June 16, 2011 by Dave HaynesNanoLumens beat out some very impressive technologies – including Kinect – to win the Breakthrough Technology category for the American Technology Awards, described as the only national “Best Of” awards recognizing all technology products and services throughout the U.S. Atlanta-based NanoLumens — which has gained a lot of attention and market traction for its lightweight, …
InfoComm 2011 – Day 1 Impressions June 15, 2011 by Dave HaynesResting my aching feet and back after a day of wandering about and chatting through the first of three days at InfoComm in Orlando. The international reception across the road promises the chance to “partake” (who still uses that word???) of drinks and snacks. Thirsty me is highly likely to partake. Day 1 at least …
Omnishapes introduces hexagonal displays for shaped video walls June 15, 2011 by Dave HaynesChristie and Prysm have a new competitor in the video building blocks space – a German company called Eyevis that has launched a new product called Omnishapes. The company is showing the display blocks for the first time at InfoComm in Orlando. The units are very similar to the LED light engine tile products first …
Digital signage deployments get Zinger of a franchise model June 9, 2011 by Dave HaynesGoogle Alerts popped up a notice on a news release recently about what was described as the “first digital signage franchise providing a “one-vendor” approach for installing and maintaining a digital signage network for small and medium size businesses.” Hmmm. I have seen a few franchise opportunities here and there through the years, offering up …
InfoComm preview: bring on the gadgets June 7, 2011 by Dave HaynesI finally got my act together sufficiently to book flights down and back to Orlando for InfoComm next week. I think I have been at everyone of these for about five years now, and it is always an interesting, completely different experience from the digital signage-centric shows. This is a show for the ops guys …
Tenants like new building's digital wall so much they're negotiating screen time May 31, 2011 by Dave HaynesHere’s an impressive multimedia video wall installation in the lobby of a Seattle building owned, but apparently not occupied, by Starbucks. The visual effort is great, but read on about the intriguing business impact. “We had to get prospective tenants interested in the building and were looking for something that would grab peoples attention,” explains …
Apple’s use of iPads for merchandising displays big moment for digital signage sector May 22, 2011 by Dave Haynes When the original Apple iPad was first announced in early 2010, lots of people in the digital signage sector were intrigued by the idea of these little all-in-one players and screens being parked at the shelf-edge in retail. After all, the units offered connectivity, thin footprint, gorgeous screen and full interactivity in something that cost …
