SpinetiX Adds Entry-Level DiVA Player June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Swiss company SpinetiX came on the market several years ago with a nice, teeny solid state media player and software platform, and pretty quietly built up its business in Europe and globally since then. It’s been a while since the firm has released a new hardware product, and that changes next week at InfoComm. The …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Peerless-AV June 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Display hardware specialist Peerless-AV will be at InfoComm, and this is why company president John Potts says people in the digital signage industry need to come by booth 3401 in a couple of weeks. 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Some top “must …
Seneca Puts Solid State NUC On Market May 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes The little Intel NUC seems to have generated a lot of traction as s signage player, as I often hear from vendors how they are using the little boxes. The original ones were little plastic clamshells that made a lot of tech people nervous, but the product line has predictably evolved and the enclosures are now …
Dear Digital Signage Ecosystem: Ignore Augmented Reality Goggles April 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes There is a great piece in Wired about the latest big tech stab at augmented reality, using those goggles, or as someone has dubbed them, faceputers. Ugly handle, and just the right measure of disdain. The Wired writer sums it up this way: That’s the real barrier to consumer adoption of augmented reality. It’s weird. …
InLighten Touts First Windows-Based Digital Signage Stick January 16, 2015 by Dave Haynes Buffalo-based software house inLighten has released what it touts to be the first HDMI stick for digital signage to run on Windows. The Argo, as it is called, is a companion product to another HDMI stick that runs Android, called the Apollo. “Argo was created for organizations that seek the savings in hardware and installation …
HP Announces New $180 Windows Micro PC January 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes HP has announced a new teeny desktop PC that will raise the eyebrows of the crowd that’s endlessly looking to cut both cost and size out of digital signage projects. Timed to the CES show, the computing giant has announced its new $180 HP Stream Mini, which looks VERY similar in form and equal in …
Inlighten Adds Whitebox Full Of Signage Gear December 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’ve been aware of Inlighten for years – given they’re just down the road and over the Niagara in Buffalo – but have never bumped into them in person or been at their digs near the airport. The company has tended to operate pretty quietly, but that’s changed in recent months – first with a …
UK Sign Prototype Bridges Analog And Digital May 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes Pixel Track from Berg on Vimeo. A British company called Berg is testing prototypes of a system that bridges analog and digital signage, using a system similar to the sort of cool, old-school arrivals and departures flipboards you see in some airports and rail stations. The PixelTrack system is set up like a horizontal track, …
One Pi + One Nerd = One Digital Sign For Kitchen January 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes San Francisco engineer/developer Brendan Nee got himself a little sub-$50 Raspberry Pi micro PC, played around with it, and came up with a real-time transit arrivals display … for his kitchen. Writes Nee on his blog: This shows the real-time arrival predictions for the transit routes near me, a map of the stops, the weather, and …
Report: Newer iPads Being Used For Digital Signage Can Double As iBeacons With No New Tech December 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes There’s a very interesting piece in TechCrunch about Apple’s iBeacons and in-store digital that’s well worth a read. It goes into the long view Apple had for using Bluetooth LE in iPads and it means a pile of 3rd Gen and newer iPads already being used in retail as digital signage and POS can also …
