Digital Display Kiosks Doubles Up As Storage Lockers For First Responder Emergency Needs November 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different take on adding functionality to outdoor digital display kiosks that mostly tend to exist as advertising faces – a locker on the side of the display that stores critical items used by first responders when something bad goes down. The LA-area manufacturer Olea has worked with a New Jersey company – …
Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Set For Feb. 2 In Barcelona; Call For Sponsors November 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes With InfoComm out of the way, the next major trade show focused on digital signage and pro AV (if you set aside CES and NRF) is Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, at the start of February. Sixteen:Nine will be doing a digital signage industry mixer during that week, off-site and in conjunction with the global …
To No One’s Surprise, Last Month’s InfoComm Saw Attendee Numbers Down By 70%-85% November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes AVIXA has released the numbers for its 2021 InfoComm trade show, run in Florida couple of weeks ago. As anyone paying attention expected, the numbers were way down. Verified attendance was 7,335, a little more than half of the 14,017 who registered to attend. The AVIXA press release does not say if the verified total …
Spectrio Launches White-Label, Turnkey Digital Signage Reseller Partners Program November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Part of my on-boarding with Spectrio – when Sixteen:Nine was acquired by the fast-growing and fast-acquiring software firm – involved me asking how the company sold its many and varied services and software options. I got the rundown, including an indication of how Spectrio was building up a partner channel. Now Spectrio has announced a …
Branded Cities Touts “Proprietary” DreamRoom 3D In New Toronto DOOH Campaigns; BS Filter Twitching November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes My BS filter is going off in a big way with news from the media company Branded Cities is showcasing “proprietary technology that enables brands to create an immersive world within their ad” at a couple of high traffic digital OOH venues in Toronto, starting today. Maybe it is something new and it just doesn’t …
LED ATM Surround Gets Display-Cased To Stop The Beating November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes When I have done talks about LED displays with different groups I have often related how susceptible they can be to accidental or intentional damage – especially with conventional surface-mounted LED displays that don’t have any sort of protective coating. Exhibit A in my slides has inevitably been a display that is built around two …
LED On Foil Reduces Weight Of Billboard-Sized Building Screen To Just 110 Pounds November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges faced by media companies or building owners who want to put up an LED digital billboard on the top or side of a commercial building is sorting out the engineering implication of the additional weight, and how the screen is mounted. In some cases, there might be additional construction or reinforcement …
Bonus Podcast: Audio From Last Week’s Tortured Terminology Roundtable At InfoComm November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes A virtual roundtable panel run last week during the InfoComm trade show pulled three Daves, a Kim and a Chris together to talk about the use and abuse of technology terms in digital signage and pro AV. Run as a version of the Digital Signage Federation’s periodic Coffee and Controversy series, the panel included Kim …
Saudi Entertainment Complex Emulates Times Square On What Was A Patch Of Sand Four Months Ago November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is just nutty in terms of the scope, scale and speed at which it came together – a massive retail and entertainment complex that went from a big patch of sand in Riyadh to fully operational and ready for the Saudi public in just four months. The Riyadh City Boulevard development opened this week, …
Dallas Aquarium Uses Big LED Backdrop To Enhance New Rainforest Experience November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes There is probably a fancy technical term that has “reality” in it that would apply to this interesting project in Dallas, but I dunno what that term is … extended reality, maybe? Suffice to say the project blends the real deal with supporting visuals done digitally. The Dallas World Aquarium (DWA), which takes up two …
