Buckingham Palace Gets Projection Mapped, As Madness Plays On Roof June 5, 2012 by Super User The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London had a big moment last night with a concert and some great projection mapping work on Buckingham Palace – probably among the last buildings you might expect to get that treatment. I just caught a snippet on the news and it showed Madness, the old ska/pop band from …
Corning Reveals Ultra-slim, Bendy Display Glass June 4, 2012 by Super User Corning has announced new ultra-slim flexible glass — glass, not plastic — that could lead sometime reasonably soon to things like curved LCD displays. The Corning Willow Glass was announced at the propeller-head Society for Information Display’s Display Week trade show in Boston this week.. Corning Willow Glass will help enable thin, light and cost-efficient …
DigiCast Picks Up RMG’s Cafe Network May 31, 2012 by Super User DigiCast Networks and its parent company Brite Media Group have picked up the old Danoo coffee shop-based Digital OOH network run by RMG. DigiCast will roll the network into an digital Café Network and bring the cafe footprint to 650, and DigiCast’s overall footprint to 2,300 total locations in the U.S. “Adding RMG’s …
BroadSign Emerges From Chapter 11 (Details) May 31, 2012 by Super User As was pretty much expected, BroadSign is now owned by Burr Smith, the guy who has been the primary investor in the company since 2009 and chairman of the company board. Formally, the assets of BroadSign International, Inc. have been acquired by JedFam Group, LLC (Smith). This comes three months after the company filed for Chapter …
Screenfeed Automates London Olympics Coverage For Digital Signage Networks May 31, 2012 by Super User This is smart. There will be tons of interest in the upcoming Olympics in London and content that shows rolling results, images and video will be in demand. Screenfeed has packaged up dynamic content bundles built exclusively for digital signage, with material that works with and without sound. The Bronze package has a live medal count showing the …
Elo Filling InfoComm Booth With Real World (Yay!) Touch Applications May 30, 2012 by Super User It looks like Elo TouchSystems has lined up an interesting set of partners to show some real world applications for its gear at InfoComm in a coupla weeks. Silicon Valley-based Array Interactive will demo a NASA campus way-finding application (above) that will be shown on a 55 inch Elo touch display. The guys at Toronto-based Jibestream Interactive Media …
Blood Donor Clinics Tap Into Digital Signage May 30, 2012 by Super User I have either missed stuff or grown immune, or more likely my fellow Canucks at ScreenScape have ratcheted back the PR blast-o-meter and no longer issue press releases on every curling rink and corner bar that plugs into their platform. After a while it was just noise. Now they just do meaningful announcements, and this one …
Chicago Startup Gets $2.3M To Take On Big Outdoor Ad Guys With Digital Street Kiosks May 30, 2012 by Super User A Chicago start-up is trying to take on the big outdoor boys in the digital street furniture business, and now has a little working capital to get units on the street. smartDIGITAL, a startup that makes interactive ad displays, has completed a $2.7 million Series A round of funding, reports TechCrunch. smartDIGITAL displays are already …
NEC’s Richer Promoted To CEO May 30, 2012 by Super User Pierre Richer has been promoted from President and COO to President and Chief Executive Officer for NEC Display Solutions of America. Richer will continue to run the commercial LCD and projector businesses for the company, as well as guide the development of the VUKUNET advertising system he launched and fosters. “Pierre has continuously achieved company …
Belgian Travel Agency Makes The World Its Video Wall May 30, 2012 by Super User Hat tip to OOH-TV for spotting this the other day … Video walls seem to be an area of genuine growth in this sector, owing a lot to thinning seams and also to lowered costs. But apart from some interesting stuff done at trade shows, how often have you seen a deployed video wall (setting MicroTiles …
