Sharp/NEC: Leading in the Far North February 27, 2025February 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Reykjavik | The Icelandic language has 20 different words for snow and apparently only two for digital signage. After four days of meetings and site inspections in the capital region, Sharp/NEC’s dominance in Iceland’s small but notable digital signage market became apparent. Whether in offices or retail, nearly every second display is from Sharp/NEC. Here’s …
Flyover Iceland: More Than a 5D Cinema Experience February 24, 2025February 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Reykjavik | It takes some time to discover Iceland’s breathtaking landscape – after all the second largest country in Europe by area. For those on a stopover or dealing with bad weather, there is Flyover Iceland – a 5D cinema experience where viewers fly across the country in just 30 minutes. While sitting on movable …
Iceland: Naturally Cool February 24, 2025February 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Reykjavik | Choosing a sustainable data center is essential for every green signage strategy. Even in Europe, many data centers are still powered by fossil energy. Iceland has renewable energy sources (geothermal and hydroelectric) in abundance and benefits from its location and the AI-driven data center boom.
Gas Stations: Where Remote Device Management is Mandatory February 24, 2025February 22, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Reykjavik | Digital price displays are mandatory in most countries – especially at gas stations with frequently fluctuating prices. A typical case of business critical signage and remote device management. Hamburg-based digital signage specialist Accenta enables Icelandic gas station chains to operate safely with Kiosk IQ.
Infocomm 2025: Registration Is Open February 21, 2025 by invidis Redaktion After ISE, the digital signage industry’s annual planning continues: Registration is open for Infocomm 2025, which will be held in Orlando, Florida, from June 7 to 13—just two weeks after DSS Europe 2025 in Munich.
Intuitive AI Deploys First Screen-Driven Trash Sorter At Boston Logan February 21, 2025 by Super User The podcast now up on Sixteen:Nine is about a Vancouver company called Intuitive AI that blends image recognition with digital signage and DOOH to come up with a recycling assistant for trash bins in busy public spaces. The company already has a lot of deployments, and now has one operating at Boston’s Logan International Airport …
Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Super User This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
The Biggest QSR Chain In The World Doesn’t Do Burgers Or Lattes. It Serves Bubble Tea. February 21, 2025 by Super User McDonald’s, Starbucks or Subway are the biggest QSR chains in the world, right? Nope. The Chinese ice cream and bubble tea chain Mixue has overtaken those fast food operators in terms of the number of stores worldwide, according to the Asian data service provider Momentum Works. Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis came across data …
Workspace: Google Meet Integrates Signage February 20, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Just like Teams and Zoom, Google Meet is now working with CMS providers to bring digital signage into the meeting room. With Comeen and Stratos Media, organizations can display company information on unused meeting room screens.
Agentic AI: The Next Game Changer for Digital Signage February 24, 2025February 20, 2025 by Stefan Schieker AI is, still and again and again, on everyone’s lips. But the development of AI Agents could be the real future game changer – also for the digital signage industry.