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Aquascript creates text from water
Just when you thought digital signage had reached an LCD plateau, along comes USE Enterprises with a moving water-droplet display system called Aquascript.
Based on a magnetic valve water-release system developed by inventor Julius Popp some three years ago, the technology has been refined by USE, which will be offering the system for hire at major events in the UK and, via partners, in the Middle East and the 
LocaModa links screens, phones, Web
LocaModa is developing closer links among out-of-home screens, mobile phones and the Internet with a pair of technology innovations. The company is offering network owners the opportunity to associate themselves with the Facebook phenomenon, as well as making a game played on a giant screen in New York accessible to users anywhere in the world.
What LocaModa director of community Jayne Karolow calls its “Facebook-connected social platform” allows
Battery-powered display aimed at older stores
After eight years in the screen-media business, Digital View has come up with a new variant on the theme: a battery-powered signage system.
Aimed at retail environments and other sites where digital signage is required but power is not available at all points in the premises, particularly older supermarkets, the VideoFlyer-SP system will be launched at the GlobalShop exhibition in Chicago on 18 March.
Based on five- and
Samsung fears for future of outdoor LCDs
Screen media could be the next boom area for LCD screens – but there are technical problems to overcome, according to a senior executive at Samsung Electronics.
Kim Sang-Soo (pictured), executive VP of Samsung's LCD Technology Center, is worried about the future of LCD screens and what must be done to improve them. He said: "The TV market is expected to become saturated by 2010. There is concern that
All New York airports to get digital "welcome centres"
Parabit Systems has landed a high-profile deal with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey which will see many visitors to the Big Apple greeted by digital signage almost as soon as they arrive.
The $5.5m contract calls on the Roosevelt, New York-based firm to supply a flotilla of signage-based "welcome centres" at a total of 27 terminals within the four major New York airports: JFK, LaGuardia,
Thai billboards face power cuts
Emergency energy-conservation methods that were introduced in Thailand in 2005 could be brought back into action now that the price of oil has topped $110 a barrel, threatening power-hungry outdoor-advertising installations.
Energy minister Poonpirom Liptapanlop has said that a reintroduction of limits on energy consumption will be considered at the next meeting of the National Energy Policy Committee. The measures would mean some department stores closing early and any
Indian market spurs software developers
The burgeoning screen-media industry in India is not only allowing a spate of network operators to emerge, but is also creating a market for locally-produced digital-signage software.
Latest on the bandwagon is New Delhi-based Infoserve India with its Neo Xtreme suite.
Six months since launch, Infoserve has already started working with a Starwood Hotels and Resorts property in central Delhi.
Sharing details with SCREENS.tv, Infoserve’s manager Shankar
In lobbies, simple is beautiful
While big numbers and flashy interactive applications continued to command much interest at Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas this week, the more modest field of lobby digital signage – as found in hotels, convention centres, corporate HQs and the like – was far from ignored.
NEC and Symon Communications were both offering new systems aimed at this market, whose Holy Grail is plug-and-play or as close as possible,
