Philips Pro Displays Can Now Be Managed, Monitored From Crestron Controller Screens August 19, 2021 by Super User PPDS, the company that markets Philips commercial display solutions, has done an interesting tie-up with AV automation and integration giant Crestron that makes networked screens easily monitored and managed from Crestron’s XiO Cloud solution. The XiO Cloud platform makes it possible to remotely control a screen’s functions from a touchscreen Crestron AV systems controller – …
Will Vaccine Passport Kiosks Catch On As A Common Tool For Safe Access To Venues? August 13, 2021 by Super User In the early months of the pandemic, there was a flurry of activity in the area of kiosks and tablets that were adapted for use as automated temperature screening kiosks for everything from airports to workplaces and even retail. I’ve seen little evidence, in terms of announcements or case studies, to suggest they ever really …
imageHOLDERS, Ultraleap Partner On Touchless Kiosk Solutions July 15, 2021 by Super User After almost 18 months of a global pandemic I’d suggest the bulk of the population – save for the puzzling people who insist it’s a hoax or that their freedoms are threatened – has a routine down for touching things and then seeking out some hand sanitizer. We also know, broadly, that COVID is much …
The Talking Flat Ladies Have Risen From The Dead, And They’re Now “Holograms” July 13, 2021 by Super User It was maybe 10 years ago, perhaps longer, when a few companies started marketing solutions for airports, retail and elsewhere that involved a looped rear-projection of a person on a sheet of plexiglas overlaid with a projection film. The idea was that this virtual person – albeit a short-ish and very flat person – could …
Navori Debuts 2nd-Gen HDMI Stix Player That Does High-Frame Rate 4K But Costs $249 July 6, 2021 by Super User Ruggedization seems to be an evolutionary thing in the digital signage sector, with consumer hardware gradually giving way to more industrialized devices with time and experience. We’ve seen it with PCs and set-top boxes, and now that’s happening with HDMI sticks. Some of the first ones on the market, like the Dell stick and units …
50-Meter Wide 12K LED Barge Set For Tokyo Oympics Sailing Contests July 5, 2021 by Super User While the content world is still pretty early on the adoption curve for 8K, there is already activity happening and real-world demos of 12K video. Japan has arguably been the earliest adopter of high-res video and spectators at specific events at the Olympics around Tokyo later this month will be able to take in live …
Samsung Launches Its 24″ All-In-One Kiosk And Supporting Software Partner Ecosystem June 30, 2021 by Super User
Start-up Monetizes Sidewalk Air Pollution Scrubber Towers For Cityscapes With OOH Ad Faces June 25, 2021 by Super User We’ve seen out of home media companies attach advertising faces to all kinds of things out in public – like transit shelters, pylons and sidewalk directories – but now a UK start-up has a solution on streets that pairs an ad face with an sidewalk air scrubber. The environmental media start-up Pluvo has partnered with KineticX, …
Android Set-Top Box Maker Minix Now Has Player Based On Intel NUC Design June 1, 2021 by Super User If you spend your days sourcing gear for media players, maybe this is not news to you. But I did not know that the Hong Kong manufacturer that seems to make the most trusted Android set-top box for digital signage applications also has a box based on Intel’s NUC design. Minix has a Next Unit …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Super User I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …