AirBnB-ing It During ISE Might Be Challenge Within A Few Years If New Barcelona Mayor Has Way June 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Well this could be a problem for people who exhibit at or walk the sprawling floors of the annual Integrated Systems Europe trade show in Barcelona – a move to curtail or ban thousands of vacation rental properties in the city. In my two visits to Barcelona, I’ve stayed at a VRBO and then an …
Zoom-Zoom: InfoComm Videos Demo Curved Touch LEDs And Infinite Zoom Software June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a few videos from InfoComm last week that demo a curved, touched LED video wall, and interactive software that continues to genuinely blow my mind. This first one is a real world demo of curved yet multi-touch capable fine pitch display that is a collaboration between Planar and TSI Touch. For context, touch on …
New Streaming Curated Curated Digital Art Service Vieunite Pro Also Enables Workplace Messaging June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes There have been several companies that have popped up offering subscription content services focused on digital artworks to be used on commercial displays – as one-offs or part of the mix in digital signage networks – but a newly launched service out of the UK blends curated artwork, screens optimized for display art, and a …
MLB Team Uses Faux Windows Errors Messages On Stadium Screens To Amplify Fan Support June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes There have been seemingly endless tales of digital signage networks with screens showing the dreaded Windows blue screen of death or pop-up notifications for things like outdated licenses, but the pro baseball team in the home city of Microsoft did a nice job recently of trolling and then whipping up local fans with a faux …
Video: Retailer Good American’s Screen-Filled LA Flagship June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in January about retailer Good American’s display-filled flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA, and now the tech company providing the displays and management software has pushed out a video that does a good job of showing the what, why and hows of the set-up. Samsung provides both the …
Polish Mall’s Gateway Windows Fitted With 153 Sq. Meters Of Semi-Transparent LED For DOOH Network June 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes With the technology improving year by year, I think we’re going to see more and more glass curtain walls on major buildings turned into digital ad displays – providing city regulations allow them. This is 153 sq. meters of semi-transparent LED inside the windows above the entry to a major shopping mall in Katowice, Poland …
Bee Swarm Sets Up Home On Football Stadium’s LED Perimeter Display June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s another curious story about LED ribbon boards that run messaging along the touchlines of football (soccer) matches. Yesterday it was a board surviving a head butt from a top French player at the Euros, and now a swarm of bees at another stadium hosting Euros games. A swarm set up home on the end …
McDonald’s Ending AI-Driven, Drive-Thru Voice Ordering Trial With IBM June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes While there is no end of buzz about AI and its ability to take over and optimize some human tasks, one of the world’s largest and most influential quick service restaurant chains is lapsing atrial it was running that used AI for automated order-taking in its drive-thru lanes. McDonald’s has told franchisees it is shutting …
Sphere Hosts Its First Corporate Event, For HPE’s Discover Conference June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes This would have cost a couple of bucks … The Sphere in Las Vegas has so far been used by a series of beloved baby boomer rock bands for concerts, and also as a high-end cinema running a film shot specifically for the venue. But it was only a matter of time before some deep-pocketed …
rAVe Videos Help Backfill What I Somehow Missed At InfoComm, Like A Godzilla LCD June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes North Carolina-based publisher and promotions agency rAVe Publications once again had a small army of smartphone-wielding twenty-somethings in purple Ts swarming the two halls of InfoComm, shooting usually quick and seriously unscripted videos at all the stands of last week’s show. They edit and post those photos during and mostly in the days after the …
