Heathrow Airport Puts Star Wars Destinations On FIDS Displays For #MayTheFourth Day May 4, 2018 by Super User This is apparently May The 4th Be With You day – a fun Star Wars riff on the famous movie line, May The Force Be With You. May 4th – May The 4th – May The Force … get it? This admission may forever shame me among my nerd industry friends, but when I was …
ONELAN Acquired By Hotel-Focused Solutions Provider Uniguest May 4, 2018 by Super User The UK-based digital signage CMS company ONELAN has been acquired Uniguest, a Nashville-based company best known for operating the business centers in hotels, across several major chains. The acquisition, says a press release, will strengthen ONELAN’s presence in the U.S., with customers and partners benefiting from Uniguest’s team of 180 US-based staff and a further 75-person …
Reflect Teams With Universus Media On Auto Dealer-Focused Digital Signage Solutions May 4, 2018 by Super User An auto industry-focused media publisher in Toronto and the Dallas-based CMS and solutions provider Reflect have formed a strategic alliance aimed directly at providing in-store solutions for auto dealers. “This alliance makes it much easier for dealerships to bring a broad range of digital media into their stores, and for automotive manufacturers to incorporate digital content …
Tech Mash-Up Blasts Interactive Fan Pix On Lux Hong Kong Hotel Facade May 3, 2018 by Super User Here’s a cool video showing how projection mapping, holograms, virtual and real light painting were mashed up for an interactive experience piece that was part of the Lumieres HK festival in Hong Kong. The LUX Experience gave visitors to Lumieres Hong Kong the chance to make light art and have it blasted on to a …
Big LED Posters Light Up Retail Space Near NYC World Trade Center May 3, 2018 by Super User This is a series of new digital OOH displays in a office tower mall in the area around the rejuvenated World Trade Center complex in New York. The displays are all SNA (Sansi) LEDs – a mix of 2mm with remote power supplies and 6mm indoor modules that use outdoor-rated diodes (brighter) due to the location …
Data-driven DOOH Campaign Targets Ads To Peak Traffic Times For Specific Vehicle Types May 2, 2018 by Super User Broadsign has pushed out a set of press releases and case studies highlighting a partnership with the demand side media platform Outmoove, and going into how live data is being used to fine-tune targeted digital OOH advertising. The most interesting of them is a campaign for Peugeot to promote its corporate minivans with SMBs and …
Seneca Updates Its Popular HDN Digital Signage Player May 2, 2018 by Super User Syracuse, NY-based PC systems builder Seneca has updated its popular HDN digital signage player, with predictably faster processors and nice little features like HDMI capture and HDCP pass-through. The little box – effectively a more ruggedized, commercial-ready version of the Intel NUC – now supports 7th generation Intel Core Processors (i3 or i5), has two …
E-Paper Displays Touted As Low-Cost, Low-Profile Solution For Campus Safety Messaging May 2, 2018 by Super User Digital signage in schools at every level is not new, but Grand Rapids, Michigan-based solutions provider Freshwater Digital has developed a very different spin built around e-paper displays and school safety messaging. The company says it has been inundated with requests to find solutions to bolster school safety with tools inside classrooms. The need, unfortunately, has …
Sharp Broadens Options For Smart Signage With Two New 24/7 Android-based Displays May 2, 2018 by Super User Sharp has expanded the range of 24/7 commercial displays shipping with built-in system on chip media players and Android. The company has added 39.5-inch and 49.5-inch PN-M series displays that ship with built-in SoCs driven by Arm Cortex-A17 quad core processors, with 2 GB memory and 8 GB storage. The monitors are 50% brighter than the company’s …
16:9 Podcasts: Jason Bier On How Federation For Internet Alerts Automates Critical Messaging May 2, 2018 by Super User One of the time-honored lines used in digital signage and digital out of home media is how the technology gets the right messages to the right people at the right times. That’s all had to do with marketing and advertising, but a non-profit called the Federation for Internet Alerts has a mission to get crucial …
