Visionect Touts E-Paper Version Of Access Control Displays April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a different spin on the idea of access control screens outside of businesses – a podium, wall or even window-mounted e-paper display that runs off batteries. This is from Visionect, the Slovenian company that does e-paper displays and software for everything from meeting room signs to live bus stop notice and schedule signs. …
Battery-Powered Sandwich Board Wheels Outside Shops To Attract, Control Foot Traffic April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Predictably, writing about an emerging and suddenly hyper-relevant piece of tech has smoked out vendors who have a version on offer, and looking for customers. I wrote Wednesday about digital sandwich/sidewalk boards that are in demand to be used as access control devices for open businesses that need to restrict access based on social distancing/venue …
LA’s Enplug Completes Detailed SOC 2 Data Security Audit April 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is over-the-top nerdy, but I am posting this not because of the news, but because of the explanations from the software vendor as to why you should care. LA-based CMS software Enplug has announced it has completed its SOC 2 Type 2 audit, “an intensive six-month audit by Coalfire, an independent cybersecurity firm, to …
Are Lowly Digital Sandwich Boards The Next Big Thing In Digital Signage? April 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Florian Rotberg from Munich’s invidis consultancy did a state of the industry brief on a webinar I was part of Tuesday, and he mentioned how digital signage that enables simple access control has become a red-hot customer ask in Europe. Simple digital sandwich boards, also called digital A-frames, are being placed outside stores, public offices, …
Acquire Digital’s Design Head Using His 3D Printer To Knock Out Surgical Mask Straps April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Head of Design at Acquire Digital in Leicester, UK (my EPL team, go Foxes!) is a self-confessed 3D printing geek and has been using his spare time at home to make adjustable mask straps for frontline National Health Service staff. The little printed straps have hooks that allow doctors, nurses and other workers …
Digital Signage Solution Tweaked To Enforce Social Distancing At Retail April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes When I load up with my sanitizer and wipes, and grab my mask, to go out on a grocery or hardware run, I almost invariably end up in a line-up outside the store – with social distancing markers on the sidewalk and a cashier turned bouncer controlling access at the door. One person leaves, and …
Four Winds’ Engineer Making PPE Face Shields With His 3D Printer April 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is Kyle Rupprecht, an Endpoint Automation Engineer at Denver’s Four Winds Interactive, who fired up his 3D printer to create face shields for local healthcare workers. Rupprecht did the printing and assembly of the kits, the work made possible by many donations from other FWI employees. I don’t know what an Endpoint Automation Engineer …
COVID-19 Will Change How Many Offices Work; Here’s How Digital Display Tech Plugs In April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the very few positives of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wholesale shift, albeit temporarily, from formal offices to work from home arrangements. While many people will eventually return to their offices and see their co-workers once again, and all the cars on their commute, it is very likely a lot of people …
Touchscreen Guidance For A (Post) Confinement World – Part One April 14, 2020 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface It’s easy to throw around phrases like “once-in-a-generation” or “once-in-a-lifetime,” but our experience with the Coronavirus outbreak may just merit the comparison. Post-pandemic, life will be irrevocably changed; the question is only by how much. Have handshakes with colleagues and cheek-kisses with friends seen their last days? Will remote work …
Hypersign Broadens Workplace Comms Solution Via Huddleup Bundle April 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The digital signage industry has been seeing companies that do things like video conferencing and screen-sharing adding digital signage modules, like Zoom and Airtame, but here’s the opposite case – with a CMS software company adding workplace meeting capabilities. South Carolina-based Hypersign has released a new extension product to its base visual communications platform, called …
