ISE Relocating To Barcelona From 2021 On July 12, 2018 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is moving to Barcelona, Spain starting in 2021 – leaving the lovely but damp, gray and chilly February climes of Amsterdam. The new and permanent home will be the Gran Via, part of the Fira de Barcelona exhibition complex. The decision, just announced, comes after 18 months of research into the viability of …
Sao Paulo Office Block Lit Up By LED Art Project July 11, 2018 by Super User This is a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a low-rez LED light facade, with content put together by the Istanbul, Turkey HQ’d creative shop Ouchhh. I like what they did, but the explanation/description is one of those art gallery “Ummm-OK-yeah-yeah-I-see” narratives that is a little too out there for my bottom-feeder brain. And I quote …
Nick Fearnley Talks About How SignStix Makes Smart Displays Really Smart July 11, 2018 by Super User I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. It …
Gable Hires On Director To Head 17-Designer Visual Communications Team July 10, 2018 by Super User I don’t tend to run much news about new hires at companies, because the reader analytics clearly indicate few of you care. BUT, this one is kind of interesting. Baltimore-based AV design and solutions firm Gable, which has grown increasingly involved in this sector in the last 2-3 years, has hired on a Design Director …
Kia Motors Russia’s Full Dealership Digital Signage Network Consolidates On Scala July 10, 2018 by Super User All the Kia dealers in Russia have now rolled out a communications program, running off Scala, that reflects the Korean automaker’s new “Red Cube” brand identity. The new dealerships mix corporate red buildings, big glass windows and a new space identity involving car displays, points of attraction and functional zones. Customers see multiscreen video walls, …
How To Make Your Digital Signage More Effective, With A/B Testing July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix In order to truly use your organizational digital signage to its fullest potential, you need to have a system of continuous assessment in place – what works, what doesn’t and how can less effective messages be improved to get people to follow your calls-to-action? One way to peek under the …
Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2 July 9, 2018 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were …
AVIXA Women’s Council Launches Toronto Chapter; 1st Meeting July 18th July 9, 2018 by Super User The AVIXA Women’s Council has launched a Toronto chapter, and women in the region involved in AV and digital signage are encouraged to come out for its first meeting, next Wednesday evening, July 18th. This event will include chapter discussions, guest speaker Scott Sanders from Bose will cover Why Sound is Important, and guest speaker Cristina Lucas will discuss …
Ultrahaptics Offers Touch Experiences For Screens, Without Touching The Screens July 9, 2018 by Super User Way back in the corner of DSE, in the innovation zone, a Bristol, UK company called Ultrahaptics was demonstrating tech that creates the sensation of touch in mid-air, in front of digital screens. The ultra-sound technology uses micro-blasts of air that can be sculpted to create the sensation of feeling 3D shapes, buttons, switches and …
Mostly Back In The Game July 9, 2018 by Super User Still lots of new digs stuff to do, but this morning I cleared out a corner of the converted sunroom that is my new office, got the desk and other stuff rebuilt, and my Mac and other things all plugged in. My corner view is a backyard that goes back about half an acre, and …
