Mumbai Billboard Collapses In Storm, Killing 16 People, Injuring 75 Others May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The deadly collapse of a huge static billboard in Mumbai, India provides an unfortunate reminder of the importance of good engineering, and the reason why local governments hopefully develop and enforce annoying things like zoning bylaws and building codes. The 120 by 120 foot ad board collapsed during a bad storm, killing 16 people and …
Pix: See How Dead & Company Using That Giant Screen In Sphere For Concert Residency May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The next touring rock act has moved into Sphere in Las Vegas, and photos have now been pushed out showing how Dead & Company is using the attractions vast, curved indoor screen. The band – three members of the original Grateful Dead plus three others, including solo artist John Mayer – is playing 24 shows …
US-based Creative Realities Laying Groundwork To Expand Reach Into EMEA Region May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the numerous panels I am moderating next week in Munich at the invidis Digital Signage Summit includes Creative Realities CEO Rick Mills. It is a session intended to look at the state of the North American market, and help European companies understand the opportunity and challenge of cracking the busy but crowded U.S. …
DSF Pulls Big Crowd For Education, Networking In Tampa May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photos pilfered from Linkedin posts by Todd Eddy and Joel Martin It appears the Digital Signage Federation had a full house for its quarterly education and networking events, which cycle around between different locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This one was in Tampa yesterday. Then event was at a waterside bistro in the …
US OOH Industry Sees Record Revenues; DOOH Now Almost One-Third Of Activity: OAAA May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The U.S. out of home advertising industry continues to be in a big growth cycle, with year-on-year Q1 revenues up 6.8% in the first quarter of 2024 and that number almost hitting $2 billion. The numbers are from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), which says the $1.94 billion in revenues represents …
Mobile LED Rental Firm GoVision Upgrades Fleet To Near Fine-Pitch Resolutions May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes My local pro football club – the mighty Halifax Wanderers of the Canadian Premier League (yes, there is such a thing) – play at what amounts to a pop-up stadium below a fort in the old Canadian harbor city, and one of the big new features added last season and back this year is an …
DISPLAX, Interactive Scape Mash Up Technologies For New Take On Interactive Tables May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Very good, hyper-responsive multitouch technology has been mashed up with slick object recognition tech out of Germany for an interactive table aimed at markets like museums, showrooms and military/police situational awareness rooms. The product – called Tile Pro | Scape X – blends the touch technology from Braga, Portugal’s DISPLAX with the objection recognition tech …
Workspace Booking Platform Humly Expands Solutions To Company Parking Spaces May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The pandemic-triggered shift in how workspaces are designed and operated evolved the use-case for screen-based solutions around offices – adding shared desk availability to displays that pre-pandemic were more about meeting room assignments and availability. Now a Swedish company operating in that “workplace experience” space has added a new twist – visualizations that show the …
NCR Voyix Partners With GRUBBRR On Kiosk Tuned To Spiking Demand In QSRs For Self-Service Ordering May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Point of sale giant NCR Voyix is going after the spike in demand for self-service ordering and payment kiosks in the restaurant sector by launching what it calls its Aloha kiosk, which has GRUBBRR’s software running under the hood. Kiosks, the company says, address ongoing issues the food services industry is facing – including finding …
Here’s A Futuresource Video Recap Of Emerging Display Tech From Displayweek Show May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Ted Romanowitz of the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting focuses his analyst eyes on the LED sector, so it is not surprising that he headed down from Portland, OR to Silicon Valley this week to take in the Society For Information Display’s annual nerd-fest Display Week. He’s produced a quick recap video that’s worth a …
