Norwich City FC Gets Shape-Shifting, Pivoting LED Board August 19, 2016 by Super User This is clever – a stadium LED board that changes orientation based on a schedule and type of content, and pivots so that it’s viewable from different angles around the grounds. The stadium screen is up at Carrow Road, the home of Norwich City Football Club, which plays in the 2nd tier of pro soccer in England (they …
Projects: Giant, Two-Sided, Pivoting Video Wall Lights Up in Scotland August 18, 2016 by Super User Via Display Daily I like the multi-purpose thinking behind this huge 32-screen video wall at the University of West Scotland in Paisley, near Glasgow. The UK-based systems integrator Saville was charged with bringing video wall and interactive technology solutions to a new, extended reception area in a campus building. The area is set up for everything from …
Size Matters In Digital Signage August 18, 2016 by Jeff Doud Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi To get the most out digital signage in retail settings, keep two key words in mind: Size Matters. That doesn’t mean bigger is better. What matters is using screen sizes that suit the setting, dynamics and purpose. The display side of the digital signage business understandably focuses on screens that …
How To Skirt City Billboard Bans, Using Projection Mapping August 18, 2016 by Super User Here’s an interesting way to get around a city’s billboard advertising laws – use projection and make the windows of rented commercial space the billboard. That’s what Citibank has done at its high profile branch on Faria Lima Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil. São Paulo banned all billboards in 2007 to fight what it saw …
Conductive Ink Turns Pizza Hut Box Into Interactive DJ Station August 17, 2016 by Super User Via TechCrunch I’m a big proponent of mixing mediums, like using print to frame and make digital displays much bigger. And I like tech that turns a medium upside – like the conductive ink developed by UK startup Novalia. The company uses paper thin printed membranes as the touch overlay and microcontrollers as the smarts. …
EventBoard Raises $13.5 M To Build Up Digital Meeting Room Sign Business August 17, 2016 by Super User I’ve written often about the seemingly pedestrian but dead-perfect application of digital meeting room signs, and how the marketplace seems to be all over the things. Exhibit A – Sixteen:Nine’s companion site – MeetingRoomSigns.biz – now has more than 40 products listed, which is at least 5X of a year ago. The site generates 1,000s …
6 Benefits Of Cloud-Based Digital Signage August 17, 2016 by Sean Levy Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit When a company goes down the path of planning, building and launching a digital signage solution, the people behind it are going to hit a big fork in the road, making them decide what kind of software platform to use: on-premise or cloud-based. For some organizations, often very large ones, …
Four Winds Previews Next Month’s Forward Conference In Denver August 17, 2016 by Super User Four Winds Interactive is holding what will be its second, now annual educational conference next month in Denver, and has released the agenda and overall plans for the Sept. 21-23 event. I went last year and thought, for a first stab at it, the event was quite good and useful both in terms of the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jeff Hastings, BrightSign August 17, 2016 by Super User If you’re looking for concrete evidence that the digital signage business is now doing some serious volume, consider the word on this latest Sixteen:Nine podcast from Jeff Hastings, the CEO of BrightSign. His shipping department is packing and moving roughly 1,000 units a day. Let me repeat that … a day. BrightSign designs, builds and …
Apple Lights Up 6K LED Wall Today At New 1 WTC Store August 16, 2016 by Super User Via TechCrunch … Apple has opened a large store in New York’s new One World Trade Center retail space, and like other recent stores opened by the tech giant, this one features a large direct view LED wall. The store just opened at noon, and there is a big 6K rez wall in one section …
