Giant Three-Sided LED Tower OK’d For LA’s Sunset Boulevard October 24, 2016 by Super User City councillors in West Hollywood in LA have chosen a winner in a design competition for a digital OOH ad structure that will be seen by motorists and pedestrians along the famed Sunset Boulevard. Called the West Hollywood Belltower, the three-sided vertical structure is anything but a digital billboard stuck on of a pylon. The …
Top 7 Digital Signage Uses in Convention Centers October 21, 2016 by Ken Goldberg Guest Post: David Kaszycki, Aerva Most convention centers around the world have installed some form of digital signage throughout their facilities. From large LED signs out front to information displays inside meeting rooms, convention centers are quickly becoming a category leader in the digital signage industry. Although many convention centers currently utilize digital signage, they may …
Next DSF Webinar Focused On The Boring Stuff That Really Matters October 21, 2016 by Super User A lot of webinars I see promoted in this industry don’t seem to stray much off a common set of themes – the why XX is important or how to do YY stuff. So it’s interesting to see the Digital Signage Federation promoting a Nov. 16 “Hangout” panel discussion about Accelerated Environmental Life Testing for Digital …
SEGD Offering BOGO Deal For Next Week’s Xlab in NYC October 20, 2016 by Super User The annual Xlab conference is next week in New York, and the Society for Experiential Graphic Design people behind it are doing a last minute push to gets bums in all the seats at the theatre down in Chelsea where it’s run. There are tours and a mixer on Thursday and the big conference is …
Tokyo Lab Pushes Mind-Wobbling Possibilities For Projection Mapping October 20, 2016 by Super User The big problem with projection mapping – apart from high costs and weather – was for quite some the technical challenge of aligning the projector or blended projectors precisely to a target projection surface. It got harder if the surface wasn’t flat. Software has fixed a lot of that, particularly projection-mapping software coming from companies …
France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays October 20, 2016 by Super User The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or …
Digital Signage Summit Part Of InfoComm’s New York Event Nov. 9-10 October 19, 2016 by Super User Much of the industry attention will be on NYC next week and the whole NY Digital Signage Week thing (will be in and out of that on an overnighter), but there’s another industry event planned for two weeks later in the city. InfoComm has a Connections trade show and conference set for the Javits Center …
E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum October 19, 2016 by Super User The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, …
Samsung Launches Online Information Portal For Pro Displays October 19, 2016 by Super User If you do product research, planning or consulting in digital signage, you will know it can be a bit of a struggle to poke around the Web to find all the information needed for things like displays. There are B2C sites and B2B sites, and sometimes neither have what you need. So this sort of …
SoftwareCo RMG Adds LED Display Side To Business October 19, 2016 by Super User There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. The Dallas-based company – kinda the v2 of the old Symon Communications, after some twists and turns from an acquisition – has announced RMG …
