Immersive Floor-To-Ceiling LCDs Greet Lift Users At Edinburgh Shopping Mall March 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes My introduction to digital signage was almost 23 years ago (23 years???!!!) when I walked into an office tower elevator in downtown Toronto that had been kitted out with a small LCD screen up in one corner, and having seen how people all stared at that screen, I was convinced there was something there and …
Screenly Expands Digital Signage Hardware Options Beyond Raspberry Pis March 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The CMS software firm Screenly has built up its business, partnerships and platform through the years around the use of ultra low-cost Raspberry Pi mini PCs. But to meet some end-user demands for more processing power, the company has now added support for an Intel-based media player. From day one at Screenly, says the company …
Clever Solution Streamlines Airport Checkpoints With Screens, AI And Automated Barriers February 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am big fan of digital signage applications that may seem boring on the surface, but are spot-on in how they make something faster, better or easier. Here’s a great example of that mantra in action – airport queues for passenger screenings and/or passport and visa checks. A pair of companies – Qmetrix from Austria …
DISPLAX Turns Stretched 86-Inch LCD Into Wall-Mounted Piano February 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a clever interactive display experience that converts an 86-inch stretch LCD display into a electronic keyboard. The demo developed by the Portuguese interactive technology shop DISPLAX probably has a limited range of practical applications, but has the benefit of being something loads of people would play with in a trade show stand, museums …
There’s A New Version Of That Digital Poster On Wheels, But The Original Question Persists: Why? February 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes I wrote a couple of years ago about a Dubai-based company that was marketing a three-sided ad poster on robotic wheels, and asked the simple question: Why? That company is still around, and RoboAds says it now has a new version – the RA-200 – that it calls the “most sophisticated signage robot that has been …
Hughes Wins BurgerFi Deal Bundling Digital Signage With Network Infrastructure, Managed Services February 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s a good example of how a service provider can win digital signage deals by also bringing a lot of other capabilities to the dance – Hughes Network Systems enabling the guest experience in the BurgerFi restaurant chain by providing all the networking technology, signage software and managed services. The fast casual chain and a …
Touchscreens, Other Surfaces Present Little Or No COVID-19 Transmission Risk: Research February 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s been roughly two years since COVID-19 became a daily discussion and the industry started wondering what all this would mean to business and the use of interactive technologies that encouraged touch actions. In the early days of the novel-coronavirus pandemic, it was widely thought that the pathogen was spread by touching surfaces, prompting no …
Custom LCD Maker Bluefin Starts Marketing Open OS All-In-One Panels February 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Atlanta-area custom LCD manufacturer Bluefin International has been around the industry for several years marketing a variety of retail-centric screens that have BrightSign media play-out hardware built-in, but now the company has added a series with a dual CPU set-up that can run Android 10 or different flavors of Linux like Debian. Bluefin’s new …
Louisville’s Bus Routes Add GPS-Updated Rider Kiosks February 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes The LA-area digital signage solutions provider Red Dot Digital Media has an interesting technical case study out on a project done with Silicon Valley media player shop BrightSign for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), a major public transportation provider in Louisville, KY. The project saw a network of digital kiosks located at each …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
