Utterly amazing LED wall at Philly's new Comcast Center June 21, 2008 by Dave Haynes When I swung by the company booth at infoComm, Barco’s John Youngson was just about imploring me to go have a look at some content running on one of its booth LCDs. It was for a new landmark office tower in Philadelphia, called the Comcast Center, that has taken the bar for digital signage content …
InfoComm day 1 June 19, 2008 by Dave Haynes Crazy hot. Not a cloud to be seen. Pretty busy inside, though compared to Day 1 at DSE a few months ago the traffic was nothing. It was mercifully free (well … almost) of AV integrators wandering up and asking what we did. I expect that tomorrow, as day 1 at a show is usually …
Everybody do the all in one hustle June 19, 2008 by Dave HaynesIs it just me, or is the all-in-one, digital signage in a box, easy as 1-2-3 thing suddenly popping up here and there and everywhere. EK3 recently unveiled DigiPost. Wirespring was showing one off at a conference the other day. Mediatile has been peddling that concept since forever. Same with MagicBox. And day one of …
The next wave of projectors June 17, 2008 by Dave Haynes The use of projectors for digital signage has always been limited by a couple of critical factors: the short lifespan of the bulbs, and the cost of servicing (mostly to swap those 2000-hour bulbs). So many people have been watching with fascination as projector systems get smaller and smaller … and smaller. This is still …
Surface tables plugged in at Rio in Vegas June 12, 2008 by Dave Haynes I failed miserably in my recent attempt to find an AT&T store in Manhattan that had the Microsoft Surface thing happening at its location. I’ve got the GPS DNA, but all those tall buildings and east and west this and thats can throw a guy off. However, I know where the Rio is in Las …
Turning shoppers into a buncha fruits June 10, 2008 by Dave Haynes The UK-based Daily DOOH blog has a Canuck contributor who picks up on stuff happening over here, including things I flat miss – like a clever digital poster for SunRype juices. An interactive ‘fruit mirror’ features a camera and specially designed graphics program that instantly animates people or objects onto a 62’’ LCD screen as …
First nCap, now nCapsule June 10, 2008 by Dave Haynes Vested interest alert – my stuff is under the hood on this thing. With that declared, I wanted to do a write-up on a very sexy new spin on a digital endcap, that grew out of the product that was launched by Toronto-based Artisan Complete a couple of months ago at GlobalShop, and generated a …
OVAB chair promises guidelines by early summer June 6, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe latest Media Post Digital Outsider has a Q and A with an old post-merger boss, Mike DiFranza of Captivate Network, who talks about where the company has been and where its going. DiFranza is also one of the founders and the current chair of OVAB, and he talked about the much anticipated guidelines the …
To all those wringing their hands about face-tracking June 6, 2008 by Dave HaynesFrom an Associated Press story: Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home. The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal …
Netpresenter latest entry in the “free” sector June 6, 2008 by Dave HaynesDutch software company Netpresenter announced a version of its application yesterday as the first free, hosted professional digital signage, PC desktop and screensaver solution. Netpresenter EasyBroadcast can also be used as a fun tool to share YouTube videos, Flash images, photos, videos and messages between groups of friends, relatives, (sports) clubs, associations and communities. Netpresenter …
