Tech Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Merging Augmented Reality And Digital Signage November 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Nikkei Asian Review Monster Asian technology manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has announced its funding of a newly-formed startup aimed at bringing augmented reality into digital signage. Foxconn Executive Vice President Lu Fang-ming did an augmented reality presentation, showing his image dynamically integrated into real-time graphics, at a demo Wednesday …
Soofa’s Color Epaper Information Stations Start Deploying On Boston Sidewalks November 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of the first sightings in the wild of a 32-inch color epaper display being used for public information. An MIT Media Lab spinoff called Soofa has started installing public information displays in Boston, running off nothing but solar power and updated using a 3G M2M wireless connection. Developed by Soofa, and running on …
Walmart Testing Giant Digital Vending Machine For In-Store Pick-ups November 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Buy Online/Pick-up In Store tower is a 15-foot tall multi-sided kiosk thingie that allows locals to order items online …
Simon Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Interactive Stations Across US Malls October 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes The US shopping mall giant Simon is rolling out a shiny new set of big 65-inch interactive directories to nine shopping centres, using a blend of touch and screen to mobile capabilities like NFC, beacons and text. The units, a press release suggests, also use proximity sensors that make the interactive component “come to life” …
Sales Beating Forecasts For All-In-One Displays, Sold In Taiwan Costcos October 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes Costco regulars will confirm my experience that all kinds of things turn up on the spartan shelves of the member-based warehouse retailer. But I don’t recall seeing any digital signage products for sale, as they are in Taiwan. That country’s 12 big box Costcos are selling 50-inch all-in-one kiosks, and sales results are so far beating …
New York Digital Signage Week (Ok, Days For Me) October 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes Halfway through a whirlwind trip in and out of New York for a few events associated with what’s been dubbed New York Digital Signage Week. It’s a compilation of events and cocktail parties and open houses, some that have been on for years, and others that have developed around this DS week theme. I did …
Meeting Room Signs Growth Is Kinda Crazy October 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes About 18 months ago I put up a post about the handful of options I could find out there for putting little digital displays outside meeting room and conference room drawers. Traffic just kept building on that one post, and I ultimately decided last fall to develop a dedicated micro-site and directory that listed all the various options …
France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays October 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or …
E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, …
Samsung Launches Online Information Portal For Pro Displays October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you do product research, planning or consulting in digital signage, you will know it can be a bit of a struggle to poke around the Web to find all the information needed for things like displays. There are B2C sites and B2B sites, and sometimes neither have what you need. So this sort of …
