Start-Up Grabb-It Turns Rideshare Cars Into Rolling Digital OOH Posters August 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes A San Francisco start-up called Grabb-It is trying to make a go of a Digital OOH advertising model that puts pico projectors in the back of ride-share cars that beam ads on to a rear passenger window. The ads show up on windows because of a transparent film overlay added to the window. The …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
Zotac Marketing Mini PC The Size And Shape Of Smartphone April 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes I remember years ago somebody or other talking about how one day PCs were going to be the same form factor as smartphones. We are apparently there (though arguably we’re past that with stick PCs). The Hong Kong manufacturer Zotac is marketing a super thin and light PC that’s somewhere between a portable hard drive …
DSE 2018 16:9 Mixer Sponsor Profile – Chief March 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes The mounting systems/infrastructure companies are huge supporters of this industry, in a number of ways. That includes sponsoring networking events like the 16:9 mixer, which Chief, a Minneapolis-area company has done for several years now. The company is part of a larger Minneapolis-area company, Milestone AV Technologies. Milestone has several pro AV brands, including Chief, Da-Lite, Projecta, Sanus …
DSE 2018 Booth Previews – RP Visual Solutions On Who Is Behind A Lot Of High Profile Video Walls March 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes rp Visual Solutions – DSE Booth 1763 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? They need to stop by and see who’s BEHIND some of the most prestigious walls in Vegas. Our focus is #CreativeVisualStructures. We’re not just a mount manufacturer. We’ve actually taken …
DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Czech Software Shop SignageOS Showing Its “Unification Platform” March 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes signageOS – Booth 1570 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Well, we are special. We’re a unique software company of almost 20 engineers in a category of its own. We are not a CMS, not an integrator nor a software development agency. We …
DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Mimo Monitors Debuting Adapt-IQV And New HDMI Capture Card March 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Mimo Monitors – Booth 1734 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? This year we will be showcasing and launching the new Adapt-IQV, which is ideal for digital signage applications. Offering power over Ethernet or wireless Ethernet connection, the Adapt-IQV is ideal for sustained …
DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Peerless-AV To Show Its Wide Range of Digital Signage Solutions March 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes Peerless-AV – Booth 1917 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Booth attendees should visit the Peerless-AV booth (#1917) for our wide range of digital signage solutions. From outdoor displays to kiosks to video wall mounts, we will be showcasing solutions that fit any …
BrightSign To Debut New HDR-Ready Players At ISE January 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes New version releases of signage gear don’t tend to get me too excited, but given the volume and breadth of BrightSign’s player business – and the number of software companies now integrating to their little purple boxes – it’s worth noting that a set of new units will have their debut next week at ISE. …
Intel Shipping Pair Of Low-Cost 3D Depth-Sensing Cameras For Analytics, Interactive January 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Intel has started shipping a pair of low-cost RealSense D400 Depth Cameras that add 3D depth sensing capability, something that could prove useful for interactive digital signage applications and for video-driven analytics. Says a press release: Ideal for makers and educators as well as hardware prototyping and software development, the new depth cameras come in …
