A Revolving, Interactive Sign That Points The Way To Pretty Much Whatever June 6, 2013 by Super User What’s dubbed the world’s most advanced directional sign handles live data feeds, rotates and points and takes requests. It’s the work of Breakfast, a New York company that is somewhere between an interactive agency and an industrial design team. These are the guys who did this cool electromagnetic dot display thing I wrote about last …
Obama Administration Takes Aim At Patent Trolls June 5, 2013 by Super User Every so often an exec at a software company sends me a note saying he or she just got a letter from a law firm saying they were in the legal crosshairs for alleged patent violations having to do with digital signage software design. DailyDOOH has documented this at length, and identified these companies as …
There’s No Free Lunch In Digital Signage … Except At Context Media June 5, 2013 by Super User While it’s pretty reasonable to attach the “no free lunch” adage to digital signage – as in anything free comes with some kind of cost – that’s probably not the case with Chicago-based Context Media, which is buying both lunch AND breakfast for its staff each day. The Chicago Tribune has a piece up about …
Raspberry Pi Generating Big Reader Appetite June 4, 2013 by Super User The writing I have been doing for the last few months about Android has generated a lot of interest, as reflected in booming page view numbers. The Closer Looks at some of the Android/ARM options out there have been among the most popular posts in the past quarter. But, by far, the post generating the …
Haivision Puts CoolSign On Android June 4, 2013 by Super User One of the things I try to coach clients on, when I am writing for them, is to NOT issue press releases immediately before or during big vertical market trade shows. People are traveling, away from their desks, really busy … so stuff gets missed. Like this announcement: CoolSign Is On Android, Too. That was announced …
Pic: CE Labs Preps For InfoComm June 3, 2013 by Super User CE labs is a happy Sixteen:Nine advertiser, and I am looking forward to meeting for the first time VP Tony Smith and some of his Garland, TX colleagues, as they show their pots and pans at InfoComm in Orlando next week. The Orlando online weather forecasts are telling me it will feel like 109F. Which …
Projects: The World’s Biggest (Virtual) Fish Tank June 3, 2013 by Super User I am still trying to wrap my head around the most popular show on US cable being about guys who make duck calls, and now I have to also deal with the notion of a massive and expensive Times Square media spectacular for a show about (I assume) people in the fish tank business. …
Projects: NC State’s Display-Filled Research Library Of The Future June 3, 2013 by Super User North Carolina State University’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, NC is a new purpose-built environment designed to allow students and faculty to interact with top-of-the-line digital technology that furthers their research and education. The school has a big online gaming program and the library has a series of massive video walls that use Christie’s …
Guest Post: Digital Signage At SID 2013 June 3, 2013 by Stephen Randall Manufacturers of large display panels don’t make much — or any — money on panels for television, so the rapidly growing market for digital signage is a bright spot. SID Display Week — held May 19-24, 2013 in Vancouver, B.C. — is a display technology show that is not known for a focus on digital …
InfoComm’s Digital Signage Footprint Not Exactly Heavy In 2013 June 2, 2013 by Super User I tend to book my way to InfoComm as a matter of routine, without really looking at what’s on and who is there. So it was pretty surprising to see how skimpy the digital signage presence is this year. All the big display and projection guys are, of course, there with big booths and lotsa …
