Calgary Uses Electronic Signs To Validate Its Bike Lane Network July 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’m not sure I’d call this digital signage, but I guess like electronic shelf labels it kinda sorta is. Whatever the proper distinction, it’s interesting. This is a semi-digital totem on a sidewalk along a roadway in downtown Calgary, in western Canada. Like a lot of cities, Calgary has a growing network of dedicated bike …
There’s Digital Signage From Bow To Stern On This New German River Boat July 9, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, invidis A media ship is an unusual idea. But the concept of a floating newsroom, a stage for live journalism and a digital signage location for events has become established. The Pioneer One has been sailing on the Spree in Berlin for two years now. Now a sister ship, the Pioneer …
ISE Creates Budget-Friendly Innovation Park, An Exhibit And Investor Pitch Zone For Start-Ups July 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Trade shows are expensive ventures, especially for boot-strapped start-ups, so the exhibit halls at many trade shows have long had areas set aside and dressed up as innovation zones that suit tight budgets. Now the biggest trade show in this sector, Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), has announced what it calls an Innovation Park. It’s a sweet set-up …
Industry To Witness Amazing Growth, But Then, So Is Every Industry July 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Some trade publication editor will no doubt copy and paste the latest “future’s-so-bright-you-need-to-wear-shades” press release about the current and future state of the digital signage industry, especially since the headline reads: Solutions for Digital Signage Market To Witness Amazing Growth By 2032. This will happen, because it happens all the time. It’s easy content, it …
Nice Product, Baffling Name July 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Perhaps it is a function of me being an age-certified old fart, but I think if you are going to call something a table, it should at least bear some resemblance to what we all know to be a table. Here we have what I think is a nice product with an utterly weird product …
Video: Watch How Dutch Start-Up’s Smart Glass Doubles Up To Produce Dynamic Visuals July 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Dutch start-up VideowindoW is going at the idea of turning windows into displays in a very different way from other manufacturers who have screens that attach LED arrays to glass or even embed the LEDs between laminated layers of glass. VideowindoW is instead mostly about a smart version of glare control, for big swaths …
Wallboard Acquires Keywest Technology And Unified Brand July 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes The CMS software and solutions firm Wallboard, which has offices in both Dallas and outside Budapest Hungary, has announced a pair of acquisitions aimed at growing its deployed base, but also bolstering staff and skillsets. Wallboard has acquired the Kansas City-area company Keywest Technology and Unified Brand, which operates out of Phoenix. “These acquisitions represent a major …
LG Follows Samsung’s Move Into Pro Versions Of IoT Sensors, Via Majority Buy Of Homey July 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG has a funny way of mirroring developments by its Korean electronics rival Samsung, and that appears to be happening again as LG has acquired 80% of a Dutch IoT platform that offers the same kind of sensors ecosystem as Samsung’s Smartthings. Samsung has recently added a pro version of its consumer-centric, and now LG …
Nordics CMS Software M&A: Sweden’s PLAYipp Acquires Norway’s Databeat July 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes A pair of small to mid-sized digital signage software providers in the Nordics region have consolidated, with Sweden’s PLAYipp acquiring Databeat, a software provider based in Norway. The M&A activity is backed by PLAYipp’s “software growth investor” Monterro. From PR: This strategic partnership marks a milestone in PLAYipp’s growth mission, enhancing our capacity to deliver …
Ancient Roman City In Turkiye Revived In Projection-Mapped Immersive Museum July 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes An ancient Roman trading city is revived and explored using more than 120 projectors at an immersive museum in Selçuk, Türkiye that opened in mid 2023. The Ephesus Experience Museum looks at what life was like in Ephesus before it was largely destroyed in an earthquake in 262. From PR about the immersive experience: Ancient …
