Solutions Provider’s New Blue Square X Spin-Out To Lead With Creative Thinking On LED Video Wall Jobs August 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Many, many times, I have heard directly or related by industry friends some baffling stories about big budget LED video wall projects being budgeted, procured and built – and as the walls were ready to switch on, the backers asked straight-faced questions about content, as in: “Sooo … what do you suggest we run on …
Local Miami Government Funds Test Of Real-Time, AI-based American Sign Language Messaging On Airport Digital Signage August 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Miami-Dade regional government is investing $100,000 into a UK company that will trial AI-driven text to sign language content on digital signage screens around Miami International Airport. Signapse’s platform takes real-time data from airport information systems, converts it to text, and that text is converted to overlays or picture-in-picture windows on screens that have …
LED Headers Over Arrivals Carousels Make Where To Pick Up Bags Obvious For Even The Most Jet-lagged Traveler August 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Screens in the arrivals/luggage carousels of airports have now grown common – mainly DOOH ad screens trying to leverage the long wait times and directory displays that assign arriving flights to different baggage carousel numbers. But I haven’t seen anything like what is now operating at Tampa’s airport. The new bag belt displays at Tampa …
Brick Statue of Aston Villa’s Iconic Lion Projection-Mapped At Football Club’s Reimagined Stadium Store August 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Aston Villa is one of the bigger clubs in English football – with a history in Birmingham tracing back roughly 150 years, and a huge fan base that includes Prince William and American actor Tom Hanks. The club has had its ups and downs in top-flight footy, but the last couple of years have been …
Taco Bell’s Chief Digital Officer Lined Up For DSE Keynote Talk August 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Taco Bell’s Chief Digital and Technology Officer has been enlisted by the company behind Digital Signage Experience (DSE) to do the December 8th keynote at the conference and trade show in Las Vegas. The Dane Mathews talk is titled “Innovating Experience: Taking a Bold Approach to Customer Connection in QSR and Beyond.” He will explore, says …
Screenfeed Debuts No-Code Calendars App For Workplaces And Events-Driven Venues August 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Screenfeed has launched a new app that enables its users to reflect meetings and events calendars on screens around a venue, without taking on a full meeting room signs software and/or hardware platform, or enabling that functionality in a digital signage CMS. The new Screenfeed Calendars app syncs with other calendars and uses selected elements …
This Elevator Cab Has 10 Big Screens On The Walls And Ceiling August 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes MORE than 25 years ago now, sheesh, I got into digital signage and DOOH by joining a company that was putting tablet-sized LCD screens up in the corner or over the entry doors of office tower elevators. That was a giant (and expensive) technical feat back then, and I never imagined what would be possible …
The Stunning, Timber-Filled Portland Airport Modernization Includes Twin 123-Foot Wide LED Walls Above TSA Checkpoints August 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes It has been a bunch of years since I have been in Portland, Oregon’s airport, but my memory is of a terminal that was due for a modernization (it was built in 1958). That’s now happened, and the refurbished PDX is now visually stunning, with new features that include two new LED video walls that …
Wi-Charge, Digital View Partner On 13-Inch Wirelessly-Powered Color E-Paper Display August 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Israeli tech firm Wi-Charge’s efforts to find display partners for its wireless power solution are starting to show some results – with word that it has partnered with the Silicon Valley-area display tech firm Digital View on a color e-paper display that can operate without wires or a need for battery swap-outs. The display …
Largest LED Mesh Display In Southern Hemisphere Switched On In Melbourne August 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is what’s billed as the largest LED mesh display in the Southern Hemisphere, a 500 sq. meter ad display up above the street and on a corner in Melbourne, Australia’s central business district. It was put in by Aussie integrator Certeq, and uses Absen’s C15-31 mesh product, which is relatively low rez at 15.625mm/31.25mm …
