Menu Boards: Would You Like A Side Of FUD With That? April 30, 2013 by Super User Pretty much anyone I talk to, who would know, says the digital menu board market is booming. Fast food and fast casual restaurant operators “get” the business proposition that the collective platform pay for itself in efficiency and flexibility and sales promotion lifts. Companies like McDonald’s, Burger King and Tim Horton’s haven’t invested millions in …
Health Screening Kiosk Network Rolls With BroadSign April 30, 2013 by Super User Health solutions provider Stayhealthy has completed the initial deployment of some 2,000 self-service, health screening kiosks in pharmacies across the U.S., using BroadSign as the content management platform. The Los Angeles-area company’s plug-and-play kiosks are FDA-cleared and let consumers measure key health indicators including blood pressure, heart rate, total body weight, total body composition, BMI and color …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At Stinova’s iChannel April 26, 2013 by Super User We’re now at 10 entries, and counting, in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like …
LocaModa Founder Records Crowdsourced Song For Boston April 26, 2013 by Super User The digital signage and digital OOH community knows Stephen Randall as the acerbic founder of social media content integration company Locamoda, which is based in Boston. Not as many know he’s also a musician and has been for years, even working as a professional songwriter earlier in his career. So when the bombs went off …
Projects: Boise State Hangs Giant NanoLumens Panel In Arts Center April 25, 2013 by Super User The Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University a very big digital display in its lobby to communicate with people before, during and after shows, and settled on a six-feet-tall by eleven-feet-wide NanoLumens 4mm LED skinny and light enough to hand on the wall like a tapestry. The NanoSlim display’s …
Video: Virtually Driving With Leap Motion And Street View April 25, 2013 by Super User My enthusiasm for most gesture stuff is really limited, but the notable exception is with the Leap Motion technology that has now been with developers for several months and will shortly be available on the consumer market. People should be able to buy the little gesture-sensing sticks in late May (make that July), for $80, …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At 11Giraffes’ Platform April 25, 2013 by Super User This is the entry #9 in a running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. At least 20 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets …
Outcast Inks Measurement And Planning Deal With Nielsen IMS April 24, 2013 by Super User Here’s more evidence the larger Digital OOH networks are taking serious steps to be proper, measured mediums. Gas pump TV operator Outcast Media has followed the lead of its main rival Gas Station TV in signing a deal with Nielsen’s Interactive Market Systems to build a model, reports MediaPost, that allows media planning agencies to build customized …
BroadSign Marks 10 Years With An X April 24, 2013 by Super User Congratulations to my old colleagues at BroadSign, who are celebrating 10 years in business, which is three or four more than lots of people predicted when the company ran into a perfect storm of cash flow issues and a crippling, lingering recession in 2009. The company is leaner and smarter because of that, and from …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At DC Media’s Offer April 23, 2013 by Super User This is the entry #8 in a running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. At least 20 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets …
