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With a number of specific educational needs for deaf and hardof-hearing students, Blossom Montessori needed to update its technologies with more visual and interactive capabilities. Sharp AQUOS BOARD interactive display systems have improved the overall learning culture at the school.

When Indianapolis-based Community Health Network (CHN) undertook a multi-year, network-wide innovation initiative, Sharp helped transform the healthcare provider’s communication processes, moving it away from paper-based communication methods and saving CHN more than $600,000 annually.

Being able to meet HIPAA compliance standards is a challenge for most rural hospitals, Thayer County Health Services, a rural county hospital, needed a technology upgrade in order to protect sensitive patient data. Eakes Office Solutions was able to offer printing and fax solutions that helped the hospital improve the way patient information was safeguarded and shared, while saving the organization thousands of dollars.

When Tamura Supermarket needed to upgrade its menu boards to improve communication with its customers, the business purchased eye-catching Sharp displays with menu board software that allowed them to quickly update and edit menu items from any location.

Seattle Pacific University’s existing range of standalone copiers, printers and fax machines were not meeting the needs of its growing population of users. After an overhaul of its printing fleet, students, faculty and staff now have an easyto-use, robust multifunctional printing environment that has increased efficiencies at a lower cost.

When a police department in a major Midwestern U.S. city needed a renovation of its headquarters, a new 3,000-square-foot Community Room was created. The designer wanted the centerpiece to be an enormous video screen that would be big and bright enough for everyone to see. Sharp professional displays proved to be the best solution as its slim bezels provide the illusion of one large screen and its brightness outshines ambient light.

The Indianapolis Indians Minor League Baseball TM (MiLB) team decided to up its organizational game by replacing in-house printers with Sharp multifunctional printers (MFPs). This transformation helped increase corporate sales revenue by 150 percent.

The Cincinnati Reds is a fast-paced organization, especially during baseball season. This Major League dynasty was spending energy on faulty office equipment, when its sheer focus should be ensuring the franchise wins on and off the field. A vendor change was imminent when service calls and on-site technicians became the norm and downtime was hindering productivity.

The Eastwood Mall Complex in Niles, Ohio represents one of the best established retail destinations in the country. Operated by Cafaro, it offers a unique blend of amenities, going beyond retail to also offer corporate offices, three hotels, and close proximity to Eastwood baseball field. With help from SVT Technology Services and Solutions, CDW and Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, Cafaro set out to add an event space to the complex.

LuminArtz, an organization celebrating local and regional creatives through the art of projection, refused to let the Coronavirus situation get them down. Instead, they turned to powerful NEC projectors to help celebrate local history and culture through their "Light up the Night" evet at the Wenham Museum.

A top university must meet exceptionally high
expectations for its design and function. Students,
faculty, administrators and alumni expect world-class
campus facilities that include the latest technologies
– so when the University of Notre Dame initiated the
largest building project in its history, it required a
massive AV installation across multiple buildings and a
historically significant stadium.

Today’s movie theaters aren’t solely centered on the
action on the silver screen anymore – with the rise
of streaming services’ endless content on demand
keeping film buffs glued to their living room couches,
theaters need to wow their patrons from the entry door
to the theater seats.

Sharp headquarters, therefore, includes a digital cinema
vignette within its Briefing Center – a 6,000-squarefoot
space divided into 10 dedicated staging areas for
each of its main verticals – to show theater owners and
operators how employing the latest digital technologies
can help get people off the couch and going to the
movies.

San Diego is a national hot spot and hub of global brands from healthcare to high tech. Commercial real estate developer Avison Young’s gorgeous 23-floor building at 655 W. When Avison Young’s Assistant Property Manager Pearce Pavle was tasked with transforming the lobby into a powerful centerpiece, she and the team turned to M1 Interactive and Sharp's dvLED video wall.

Christmas is a special time of year, full of joy and spectacle. One of the most iconic aspects of this celebration is the Christmas light display. While many enjoy setting their own lights up around the house, others take the passion to an entirely different level.

Teaching, especially in higher education, has evolved dramatically since the rise of technology. Classrooms look very different than they did a decade or two ago, and students and educators alike are reaping the benefits of collaboration methods and visual aids that were not possible until recently.

So when a university in Philadelphia saw a way to enhance its healthcare and medical sciences education spaces by making them more interactive and collaborative, it turned to technology to make it happen.

World-class natural history museums continuously strive to create extraordinary experiences for visitors, and that means finding creative ways to transport people of all ages into a specific tableau or era. So when Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History began the process of moving its famous Tyrannosaurus rex specimen to a new home within the museum, curators saw an opportunity to immerse visitors in the dinosaur’s world.

It can be difficult to make connections with the art of antiquity; how much can modern humanity possibly have in common with people who lived thousands of years ago? This can be especially true of ancient Greek and Roman art, which is largely monochromatic; sculptures are made of hard, impassive marble or bronze, and weathered architecture has faded them to a single dingy shade.

This lack of color can translate into inaccessibility; museum-goers sometimes are less attracted to classical art exhibits, lingering politely for a few moments before moving on to the Impressionists or Japanese woodblock prints – or any exhibit that is more visually appealing, because of its colorful representations.

To help visitors better connect with the works of the ancient Mediterranean, museums are striving to present this art as its contemporaries would have seen it – vibrantly colored and eye-catching – through a combination of technology and painstaking research.