Dear Digital Signage Ecosystem: Ignore Augmented Reality Goggles April 29, 2015 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
What Apple’s iBeacons Mean For Digital Signage December 6, 2013 by Super User Apple has reportedly turned on its iBeacons capability in all of its 250+ US stores, giving it the capability to push messages to opted-in shoppers as they wander near and into the store. The tech uses the newest low-energy flavor of Bluetooth, and users need an official iOS Apple Store app for things to start …
Acer Blurs Digital Signage Tablets and Displays Further With New Win 8 All-In-One December 5, 2013 by Super User We told you recently about Acer releasing a 27-inch all-in-one display with an ARM processor that was, in effect, a crazily-big Android tablet. And one that could in theory serve some digital signage needs, and be a smaller, more open variant of a Samsung Smart Sign. Now via Engadget we see that Acer has released …
MIT Shows Off Amazing Tactile, Shape-Shifting User Interfaces (w/video) November 13, 2013 by Super User inFORM – Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo. The frighteningly bright young minds at MIT are making a lot of progress with the concept of changing interactivity from graphic user interfaces to tactile ones. I can’t begin to explain how this all works, but it’s intriguing and impressive. The …
