16:9 Now Has A Companion Podcast – Projects, With Michael Tutton January 27, 2017 by Super User The Sixteen:Nine Podcast has been running long enough now to have 39 episodes and a pretty healthy number of downloads – something like 83,000. Clearly, there’s an audience. So there is now a companion podcast, which is being hosted by a longtime industry friend, Michael Tutton. Another polite Canadian who likes his craft beer. Industry …
Armodilo Debuts Low-Profile, Low-Cost Tablet Enclosure Called Keyo January 26, 2017 by Super User The guys at Armodilo have built up a name and healthy business developing pretty but also rugged enclosures for tablets being used as one-to-one digital signs across a bunch of verticals, and now they’ve come up with a new line that is more about function and cost than form. The Keyo is a utilitarian-looking low-profile wall …
PixelFLEX Adds Bendy Hi-Rez LED Panels January 26, 2017 by Super User Nashville-based PixelFLEX has started marketing a new flexible LED video panel that would appear to go after the turf occupied by NanoLumens and some offshore clone-makers they’d like to sue. PixelFLEX has debuted a 1.9mm TrueFLEX LED flexible video panel – a high-rez panel that can handle, at least, a gentle concave or convex curved surface. This is …
Digital Signage Summit Set For ISE January 25, 2017 by sixteenninewpadmin The German consulting and event company invidis has put together another one of its digital signage conferences tied to a trade show – in this case a Digital Signage Summit running on Feb. 8th at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam. As it has done in other cities – like Moscow, Dubai and the mother-ship show in …
New NYC Subway Line Upgrades Interactive Kiosks January 25, 2017 by Super User The Link NYC smart cities screens that have started dotting the sidewalks of Manhattan now have cousins in the subway system – new variations on the MTA On the Go (OTG) kiosks that have been in the system for some time now. There are eight screens in three stations on the loooooooong-awaited new line, which opened …
Sharp Hints At Move Into “Smart” Displays January 25, 2017 by Super User It looks like Sharp will join the swelling ranks of big display manufacturers selling professional monitors with System on Chip players built inside. The systems integrator online publication Installation has an ISE preview interview with Sid Stanley, Sharp’s Europe GM for Visual Solutions, who says Sharp will be “significantly expanding our signage presence with a range …
Projects: Interactive Displays Guide Vera Wang Style Choices January 25, 2017 by Super User This a pretty standard touchscreen application developed for weddings-centric fashion designer Vera Wang, but I like how this video shows the thinking behind the user experience and the use of a set of guiding questions on style to get users more quickly to what interests them. In a truly long distance collaboration, Wang’s team engaged …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Paul Vincent, Flexitive January 25, 2017 by Super User There’s been a lot of talk about how HTML5 is the future of digital signage content, and Paul Vincent knows more about that than just about anyone out there. He’s the founder and CEO of Flexitive, an online tool for building advertising and content using everything HTML5 brings to the table. I first bumped into …
Coates Hires McDonald’s POS & Kiosk Chief As New U.S. GM January 24, 2017 by Super User New hires at digital signage companies don’t seem to generate many page views on Sixteen:Nine, but this one might be different – a company focused on digital services for QSRs has hired the woman who was previously McDonald’s Director of Global Point of Sale and Self-Order Kiosk. Kim Moore is now the U.S. General Manager of …
Registration Now Open For 2017 Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer January 23, 2017 by Super User OK, release the hounds, start your engines, or … umm … whatever. Ticketing is now available for the 2017 Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer, March 28th in Las Vegas. If you are a longtime reader and industry person, you are probably nodding knowingly. If you are an industry and 16:9 newbie, you are probably having an “OK, sooo …
