One Pi + One Nerd = One Digital Sign For Kitchen January 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes San Francisco engineer/developer Brendan Nee got himself a little sub-$50 Raspberry Pi micro PC, played around with it, and came up with a real-time transit arrivals display … for his kitchen. Writes Nee on his blog: This shows the real-time arrival predictions for the transit routes near me, a map of the stops, the weather, and …
LG Will Soon Have Its Own “Smart Sign” January 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes I recently saw an LG presentation that indicates the company will soon start marketing a rival product to the Samsung SmartSignage platform. The “system on chip” design – essentially a smartphone/tablet CPU embedded in a commercial display panel – looks very similar to the Samsung product announced and released about a year ago. The big …
Android And Windows Move In Together January 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes Some of the early reports coming out of CES are about work that would see the Windows and Android operating systems running on the same computing device, seamlessly. AMD has a partnership with BlueStacks – emulator software that makes Android apps run on Windows devices – to develop technology that would run Android apps within …
LG Gets A Very Smart New TV; Will A Smart Sign Follow? December 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes LG appears set to release what would be a very smart TV at CES next month – making me wonder if the South Korean company has plans to migrate that horsepower to its commercial monitors. Tech blog The Verge is reporting LG will unveil a Smart TV that runs a 2.2GHz dual-core processor with 1.5GB …
Hisense Latest DisplayCo To Debut Giant Quasi-Tablets December 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense is the latest company to release a big quasi-tablet that could be used for digital signage, though the caution here is that these are TVs and not commercial panels. However, the Hisense smart TVs run Android 4.2.2 and run the Marvell ARMADA 1500 media processor, which is what’s driving those Google …
The Big-Ass Tablets Are Coming! November 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes Bryan Mongeau from BroadSign is a very close follower of the Android space, both of the software and the gear. He sent along a note flagging this new smart screen from Acer, as showcased on The Droid Guy blog. The cleverly-named TA272HUL (rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) is a 27-inch monitor with a very …
Commoditized: Now You Can Get Interactive Projection Systems For Sub-$500 October 26, 2013 by Dave Haynes Gizmodo has a piece up today about a company looking for funding, via Kickstarter, that has largely commoditized the technology used for interactive projection systems. What the company has is intended for the bedrooms of little kids, but Raspberry Pi was intended as a kit to teach schoolkids about computing, and that went in a …
Video: The Impending Android Invasion September 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes While BroadSign is unabashedly promoting the features, benefits and comparative benefits of its Android digital signage offer versus the dozens of other ones that have popped up in the last two years, it’s also a really good primer for understanding how the Google mobile operating system applies to this sector. The preferred choice for many …
TargetR Now Has Both Android & Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Options August 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes The UK digital signage software firm TargetR now has platforms support both Android and Raspberry Pi, as well as standard PCs. TargetR’s new Raspberry Pi player uses the same underlying core player components from the Android Player software and in hooked into the company’s cloud-based platform. They’ve done that by adapting the player core and …
RevelDigital Releases 2nd-Gen Android Digital Signage Offer August 17, 2013 by Dave Haynes Android digital signage products have now been on the scene long enough that we’re staring to see 2nd generation products hit the market. Capital Networks released theirs recently, and now Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital has announced a new version of its hardware/software offer. RevelDigital says the new version is the result of customer feedback and working …
