The Perfection of Square Video Tiles.

There is more to the Mosaic AD22-Salvador tile than meets the eye. While it is an LCD display, its 1:1 aspect ratio sets it apart from its big brothers. It integrates with other wall claddings beautifully, allows for tight-radius concave video walls, and fits places other displays won’t fit. People love it; it’s that simple. After all, it’s hip to be square.
Square tiles can be installed above doors, up columns, in long rows or around corners. They can be embedded with other types of tiles, or even in the floor or ceiling with proper reinforcement. They add character to an architectural display, and virtually every Mosaic installation to date includes squares.
All that goodness aside, the AD22 contains some unique pixel magic. Its 960 pixels across a 387.4 mm active screen width delivers an ultra-small pixel pitch of just 0.40 mm. This makes it especially attractive for use cases with dense video data like scientific research. It also looks good from close viewing with more scaling than other displays.

There is even some interesting math in the Salvador tile. When you double the 960x960 resolution, you get a width of 1920 pixels which works nicely when displaying 1920x1080 content. Create a 3x3 grid of AD22 tiles and you have a total pixel count of 8,294,400. This happens to be the exact pixel count of 3840x2160 (4K). In Mosaic land, this means you can program your 3x3 AD22 grid with a custom EDID of 2880x2880 and capitalize on the maximum bandwidth of Mosaic while displaying at native resolution.


An example is posted on the Mosaic Design Library.

Audi: Oh Deer !!

Detect in time what might later become hazardous. With Audi pre-sense plus. thjnk AG, Hamburg tricked the eye by overlaying two headlines: From far you could only focus the blurred headline. From only the “hazard” hidden inside.

Google Q&A: How The Tech Giant Plugs Into Digital Signage.

A quick chat with Vidya Nagarajan of Google in the Intel booth at DSE. She was there answering questions about the Chrome platform and the potential use cases for digital signage. I followed up with a series of questions, via Google’s communications folks, and Vidya kindly got back to me with answers

Here's what the Product Manager in the Chrome for Business group has to say about the much-discussed entry of Google into the digital signage space.



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Pi In The Sky On Pi Day.

Every March 14th (3/14) is a day of much reverence for math geeks worldwide. Better known as Pi Day, given its connection to perhaps the most well-known mathematical constant that begins with 3.14 and goes on with an infinite march of decimals. To commemorate the day this week in Austin during the annual South By Southwest festivals, one company literally put Pi in the sky.

AirSign.com and its fleet of planes took to the skies around dusk in Austin on Pi Day Eve, writing out the infinite number across as much as 100 miles of sky. Here’s how the company says they did it:
The conceptual work will consist of five synchronized aircraft equipped with dot-matrix technology flying at 10,000 feet altitude while skywriting the first several hundred characters of pi’s infinite sequence. This spectacular performance will be displayed by AirSign Aerial Advertising. AirSign’s skywriting team will create a spiral several miles wide, as the aircraft emit numbers that measure a quarter-mile in height centered on the Austin Convention Center and viewable from the entire city and its surrounding areas.



The number was written out to several hundred decimals, snaking and looping its way around the skies above Texas’ capitol city.

I have to wonder what will be done to top this next year, which will be the biggest Pi Day ever, on 3/14/15, since Pi when calculated to a few more decimal places is 3.1415.

Manchester United: Presents Front Row.

Adam&Eve DDB have developed an idea for Google and Man U that will give loyal United fans around the world the opportunity to cheer on their team live, appearing via a Google+ Hangout on Old Trafford’s pioneering digital hoardings during United vs Liverpool on 16th March.

Mediapro Exhibitions created a great show for audiovisual presentation LFP World Challenge / Spain.

For the presentation of the LFP World Challenge project, Mediapro Exhibitions launched a great interactive audiovisual installation comprises a videowall 4 x 1 Samsung seven totems, making up a total of 70 vertical screens, and a show performed with projection equipment Panasonic.

On the occasion of the presentation of the project LFP World Challenge, held on March 6 at the Mansion of the Dukes of Pastrana in Madrid, Spain Experience organized a demonstration of what will be a great display to accompany the Football League Professional (LFP). This is an interactive exhibition that Mediapro Exhibitions has made a full deployment of audiovisual techniques for this occasion.
Mediapro Exhibitions created an assembly composed of an interactive video wall, seven digital totems and two large screens on which video they made reference to the event taking place were shown, the LFP World Challenge.
The videowall formed exhibited a 4 x 1 and consisted LED touch screen Samsung UE55 55 inches, providing a resolution of 1920 × 1080 each, achieving a final resolution of 7680 × 1080 pixels, 700 cd/m2 brightness and 5000:1 contrast. This videowall information with data from the participating companies, athletes and projects related to the LFP World Challenge offered.


Despite the spectacular videowall and attendees could personalize the content they wanted to see it, the central area was the most striking Experience of Spain, as there Mediapro Exhibitions installed seven digital totems, each composed of five Double-sided vertical screens.

More information here.

This initiative of the Professional Football League has the support of the Ministry of Trade (ICEX), the Forum of the Leading Brands and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its focus is to internationalize and to value the Spanish football, with the collaboration of the leading companies.

Ziggo Home: An iconic and powerful tool.

Ziggo asked DAY to develop a way to counter competition campaigning to win over Ziggo clients.

In order to increase awareness DAY came up with a travelling house: Ziggo Home. A mobile pop up place to inform and inspire new and existing clients throughout the country. The exterior of the Ziggo Home is a high res interactive LED facade that communicates Ziggo products, benefits and content. Ziggo Home travels the Netherlands from Jan 2014, visiting a different community every week.
It can be used for any type of event, from sales events to festivals.

DAY developed the concept; designed the Ziggo Home; art directed the digital content and is working on the ongoing activations.

Jacksonville Jaguars get the world's biggest LED-lit HD displays.

The Jacksonville Jaguars don't exactly generate much excitement on EverBank Field. However, they'll soon have something attention-worthy above that field: a pair of the world's largest LED-lit, HD-capable displays. Daktronics is installing end zone screens at the stadium that each measure 362 ft. wide by 60 ft. high, handily eclipsing the 200 ft. by 80 ft. panel at Charlotte Motor Speedway. All that visual real estate will serve up to three HD replay videos at once, even as it shows the (likely dismal) score. The setup is overkill for a football team whose chances of a Super Bowl are currently very slim.

eerste Dual Screen Solution met Fingertouch

BenQ luidt een nieuwe generatie projectoren voor het onderwijs in. BenQ laat op de CeBIT 2014 met de modellen MW853UST en MX852UST twee ultra-korteafstandsprojectoren zien die naast voor de gebruikelijke, afzonderlijke installatie ook perfect gebruikt kunnen worden voor Dual Screen-projectie.

Een innovatie van wereldklasse is dat leerlingen en leraren hun applicaties nu via Fingertouch kunnen aansturen. Dit wordt mogelijk gemaakt met behulp van de geïntegreerde BenQ PointWrite U-technologie. De onderwijsprojectoren, inclusief wandbeugel, zijn met ingang van nu in de winkel verkrijgbaar voor een prijs van € 1.999,= voor de MW853UST en € 1.899,= voor de MX852UST (beide inclusief BTW).

Teamplayer: reusachtige projectie met Fingertouch
Beide projectoren zijn uitgerust met ultra-korteafstandstechnologie. De projectieverhouding bedraagt voor de MW853UST slechts 0,35 en hij projecteert een 80 inch groot, scherp gedefinieerd beeld op slechts 0,28 meter afstand. De nieuwe modellen zijn geschikt voor perfect samenspel tussen twee projectoren in de klasruimte. Dual Screen-projectie heeft als voordeel dat twee afzonderlijke projecties naadloos gecombineerd kunnen worden tot een groot projectiebeeld, dat dicht in de buurt komt van de afmeting van een schoolbord. Een andere mogelijkheid is de projectie te splitsen, zodat bijvoorbeeld aan de ene kant van de projectie video's vertoond kunnen worden terwijl op de andere kant tekst wordt geschreven. De nieuwe BenQ PointWrite U-technologie biedt content de revolutionaire Fingertouch-optie. Naast de klassieke variant met de pen kan de te projecteren content nu naar wens met de vinger verschoven, verkleind of bewerkt worden. Dat garandeert bij het onderwijs maximale flexibiliteit en interactiviteit, waarbij tot 4 personen tegelijkertijd bezig kunnen zijn. Met behulp van de toolbar kan gekozen worden tussen talrijke kleuren, vormen en hulpmiddelen om te schrijven, zoals stift of krijt. Bijzonder daarnaast is dat de achtergrond van de projectie ingekleurd kan worden met schoolbordgroen. Dat maakt de projectie voor de leerling prettiger om te lezen. De optioneel verkrijgbare kit met BenQ PointWrite en Fingertouch ligt in de winkel voor € 599,=.

Woman's Hair Interacts with Subway Trains in Sweden.

A clever outdoor ad from Sweden uses a bit of technology to transcend the limits of traditional advertising.

Apotek, a pharmacy brand, outfitted subway platform ads in Stockholm with ultra-sonic sensors that discerned when a train was coming.