Transit Info Start-up Pairs Analog Route Signs With E-Paper Real-Time Update Inserts November 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes While Taiwan’s E Ink is making a big push into color e-paper and more sophisticated products for digital signage and DOOH applications, a much smaller Canadian competitors is taking the opposite path – developing an oversized but super-simple monochrome e-paper sign for transit applications. Ynvisible Interactive has announced what it calls a “collaboration” with Waypoint …
Video: Have A Look At Probably The Most Unique Sneaker Store On The Planet November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I was last in Barcelona, at the start of this year and just ahead of the ISE trade show, I found my way up to a gorgeous little, largely tourist-free area called Gracia, for a chat and visit with the folks at the digital signage solutions company Admira. We had a good chat but …
New Digital Board On Venetian In Vegas Wraps Around Resort Archway November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes The F1 race circuit is back in Las Vegas this week, so the city and glitzy Strip will be getting even more attention than usual. And taxi and ride share drivers will be using a lot of salty language as they crawl through traffic clogged by diversions needed to make the Strip a race track. …
A LOT Of LED Planned For Inside Of New Saudi Mega-Stadium Outside Riyadh November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Plans have been unveiled for yet another entertainment-themed mega-project in Saudi Arabia – this one for King Salman Stadium, which would be the largest-capacity stadium in that country and among the largest globally. While some recent Saudi project plans have a lot of very overt digital components, this one is the opposite in style – …
Publicis Sapient’s Jackie Walker On The Value Prop, ROI And How-Tos Of QSR Digital Signage November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have been forehead-deep for weeks now on a special report that is shaping up to be great, but it is far more involved than originally intended. The dozen or so stories originally planned is now more like 50, and I am researching and writing almost all of them – and traveling to do so …
Free Download: The 10 Most Important Questions To Ask When Sourcing Digital Signage CMS Software November 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes German language content partner invidis has developed a free download PDF guide to choosing the optimal CMS software, and unlike some other publications (making a throat-clearing sound here) with such “guides” or lists, this one isn’t just a round-up of companies that happen to also be advertisers in those publications. invidis has developed a process …
DSF Has Innovation Lab At This Week’s IAAPA Attractions Trade Show In Orlando November 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The biggest trade show on the planet for the attractions industry is unsurprising held each year in the land of theme parks – Orlando, FL – and IAAPA opens its exhibit hall this morning for a four-day stand. I mention this because the attractions business can be a good one for companies active in digital …
Local Dimming Tech Reduces Praevar’s New High-Bright Display Power Demands By 35% November 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based specialty display company Praevar has launched a new high-brightness outdoor LCD display that uses dynamic local dimming backlight technology and software to reduce its energy consumption by roughly 35% over high-brights of the same size and spec on the market. Praevar says its Podium 75-inch units can push 4,000 nits of brightness and run …
Dubai Mall Adds Shape-Shifting LED Halo Rings To Busy Atrium Area November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The sprawling Dubai Mall in Guess Where, UAE has added yet more digital bling – commissioning and seeing installed a five-ring LED halo sculpture suspended over the shopping center’s Fashion Catwalk Atrium. Each of 3.9mm pitch Daktronics LED halo rings measures 0.75 meters high by 24 meters in circumference. Halo LEDs are kinda sorta common, …
This LED Totem Folds In Half To Create Digital Sandwich Board November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen at trade shows a few versions of LED poster columns that can be pushed together to make larger displays, but I don’t think I’ve seen one that folds in half to create a shorter, back-to-back display for marketing inside or outside operations like retail or hospitality. As you can see from the video …
