Bank HQ Puts In Reactive Digital Koi Pond As Calming Oasis For Staffers, But Tops It With Big TVs??? June 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes My first reaction to this interesting set-up in a common area of a corporate campus is “Hmmm ….” Like tilting my head and rubbing my chin “Hmmm …” Like I get what the bank and solutions providers were going for, but not sure it gets there – creating a reactive digital koi pond that people …
Clever London Underground DOOH Campaign Adds 1960s Feel To Escalators June 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Damian Rezner for noticing this … This is a campaign in the London Underground system aimed at helping people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s, and their carers, through creative on the screens that run alongside the towering escalators. Put together by Havas London, and using 13 London Underground and Elizabeth line stations, the …
ClearLED Seeing Interest, Demand For Its Micro Mesh LED Displays From Designed Space Community June 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes There was a lot of fantastic display technology on show last week at InfoComm in Orlando, but the dozens of LED manufacturers who were there had and have a running challenge of it all looking pretty much the same. A big microLED video wall looks amazing. But so does a 0.95mm LED wall using Chip …
DIVE Billboards, Nextdoor Partner On Hyper-Local Content Tie-Ins For DOOH Networks June 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes A pair of user-generated content companies have formed a partnership to get hyper-local, neighbourhood-level content on targeted digital OOH screens in the U.S. and Canada. Toronto-based DIVE Billboards has announced a tie-up with San Francisco-based Nextdoor that results in what’s called Nextdoor Outdoor. DIVE is a service that curates and translates dynamic, data-driven creative and …
Just Keep Zooming In On Visuals With This Large Format Interactive Display Software June 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the more compelling interactive display solutions I’ve ever seen made me say Oh Wow! when I first saw it 10-plus years ago, and it did that again when I saw it down at InfoComm last week. A little Toronto company called Content Interface markets a handful of software-driven solutions for large-format displays and …
More Video – All Three Sequences – From InfoComm 2023 Digital Signage Mixer June 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here is another video from last week’s mixer in Orlando during InfoComm 2023, shot and uploaded by Hao Le of the Toronto interactive software firm Content Interface. This one shows all three different videos, plus the sponsor segment. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button …
Court Filings On $200M Lawsuit Filed By Cooler Screens Against Walgreens Detail A Big Freaking Mess June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes An industry friend sent me a copy of the complaint filed with an Illinois court regarding the dispute between US chain drug giant Walgreens and Cooler Screens, the DOOH start-up that was retrofitting the store’s chiller sections with custom-made transparent LCD screens embedded in the doors. It’s a big freaking $200 million mess. The heavily …
Liquid Crystal Supplier Confirms Large-Format LCDs Are A Sunset Technology June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the key suppliers of liquid crystal technology for flat panel display makers has pretty much confirmed what we all sort of know – that LCDs are a sunset technology and various flavours of LED and OLED are gradually taking over, first with TVs. The tech publication Tom’s Guide has a post up with …
Video: Here’s What Strinko Visual Design Studio Created For Last Week’s InfoComm Mixer June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Las Vegas-based Strinko Visual Design Studio did one of the three videos run during last week’s digital signage networking mixer in Orlando, during InfoComm. Aaron Strinko did a piece that filled the entire 155-foot LED volume at the virtual production studio in Orlando that moonlights as an events venue. You can see the video from …
Feel Like You Missed A Bunch Of Things At InfoComm? Doing The Math Explains It … June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes It was in my head as I briskly walked to beat the shuttle bus rider rush as Day 2 of InfoComm wound down that there were all kinds of vendors and people I did not get a chance to see last week, as I just ran out of time. What did I do so wrong??? …
