DSrupted: Google’s Move Into Digital Signage July 23, 2014 by Super User Vidya Nagarajan of Google is coming from San Francisco to speak at DSrupted, and provide perspective and insight into how the technology giant plugs into and inevitably disrupts the digital signage space. A Product Manager in the Chrome for Business group, she was at the Intel booth at DSE, answering questions about the Chrome platform and …
Projects: London Windows Make Eye Contact With Passersby July 23, 2014 by Super User Eye Contact from Peter Hudson on Vimeo. As spotted on Engadget, here’s a new visual art project in London, UK that uses two giant pairs of eyes gazing from streetfront windows at passersby. The 650 oversized pixels that make up the video windows are at the Welcome Collection’s venue in London and intended by artists …
LG Testing Transparent OLED Panels That Bend In Half July 22, 2014 by Super User There’s a whiff of solution looking for problem about LG’s flexible display technology, but nonetheless, it is pretty interesting to see (as relayed by OLED-info) a transparent flat panel display that is so flexible you can roll it over. The tech blog reports: Two weeks ago LG announced it has developed 18″ rollable OLEDs and 18″ …
Pattison Extends SmartAd Platform To Canada’s Outdoor LED Boards July 22, 2014 by Super User Pattison Outdoor Advertising, the biggest national OOH and Digital OOH company up here in the cradle of curling and poutine, has extended a “smart ad” system used until now on inside inventory to the big LED boards along Canada’s three paved roads. With the Adobe Flash-driven smartAD advertising engine, Pattison’s advertisers “have the ability to quickly …
Projects: Under Armour Brand House in NYC July 22, 2014 by Super User The sports apparel and gear brand Under Armour opened the doors the SoHo (NYC) Brand House in April, the company’s largest retail store to date and one that puts a big visual focus on digital. The Brand House has nearly 10,000 square feet of interactive retail space that use technology to “tell the brand story through …
Crowd-funded Star-up Creates Hybrid Of Digital Signage And Networked Art July 21, 2014 by Super User A Japanese company has launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for networked screens designed to run artwork in offices, homes and other spaces. Called FRAMED, the project is billed as is the world’s first canvas for digital art. Except these guys announced their’s a few weeks ago. Anyway, what this new project does in interesting. Available in …
DSrupted Promises Full Day Look At Digital Signage And Disruptive Technology July 21, 2014 by Super User We’re now less than two months out from DSrupted, the first conference to focus just on the rapidly evolving and emerging technologies that are disrupting the digital signage business. On Sept. 17th in downtown Toronto, a full day has been set aside to much more closely examine the opportunities and implications of technologies such as …
Projects: Walmart Using Collaborative Video Wall For Merchandise Planning July 18, 2014 by Super User Big video walls tend to be Wow Factor efforts aimed squarely at consumers and corporate visitors, but here’s one that’s set up behind the scenes as a collaborative tool for a display solutions company that has a whale client named Walmart. The CROSSMARK Center for Collaboration in Bentonville, Arkansas (home to Walmart) has a pair …
Pattison Running Urban Love Letters On Digital Boards & Screens July 16, 2014 by Super User Pattison Outdoor is working with Spacing Magazine on a program running on digital billboards for the next four weeks that show what amounts to Tweeted love letters to select Canadian cities. Says a release: For the next 4 weeks selected urban love letters in the form of tweets from people across Canada will be shared on …
BroadSign’s Lead Investor Takes Over As CEO And Chairman July 15, 2014 by Super User Burr Smith has for several years – pre and post a period in Chapter 11 – been the primary investor in the Montreal-based software firm BroadSign, and he is now fully in charge not only of the budget but overall operations, having been named the company’s new Chairman and CEO. Brian Dusho is now the …
