The Big-Ass Tablets Are Coming! November 10, 2013 by Super User Bryan Mongeau from BroadSign is a very close follower of the Android space, both of the software and the gear. He sent along a note flagging this new smart screen from Acer, as showcased on The Droid Guy blog. The cleverly-named TA272HUL (rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) is a 27-inch monitor with a very …
Digital Signage Proximity Marketing Goes (Very) High Frequency November 4, 2013 by Super User John Kirkpatrick, or JK as he is widely known, has been around this sector forever, having started FRED Systems 20 years ago and selling the pioneering digital signage software system to Mercury Online (which 3M then bought) in the early to mid 2000s. These days he does management consulting and is banging the drum for …
No More Tears For Digital Signage? October 24, 2013 by Super User Bryan Mongeau of BroadSign sent me a note the other day about a new graphics capability announced by Nvidia, suggesting it represented a big opportunity and technology shift for the digital signage sector. The announcement had to do with something called NVIDIA G-Sync – a graphics card enhancement that changes the way display monitors handle the …
MonkeyLectric Puts Very Different Spin On Digital Signage October 13, 2013 by Super User These things are a very different twist on digital signage and I’ve loved them since I first saw a prototype a couple of years back at Infocomm in Orlando. Now the little SF Bay start-up MonkeyLectric is coming off a successful Kickstarter round and going into full production with a pro version. MonkeyLectric puts an …
Pioneer Developing Transparent Tech To Make Digital Signage Work On Shop Windows October 9, 2013 by Super User Japanese electronics firm Pioneer is working on technology – presumably a film overlay – that it suggests dramatically improves the quality of projections in shopfront windows. Pioneer tells Diginfo the brightness and transmittance levels are higher than when using a transparent LCD panels (brightness would not be hard, from what I have seen). The company sees …
Planar Debuts Budget “Simplicity” Display Line September 18, 2013 by Super User I tend to think of Planar Systems operating at the higher end of the LCD display market, but the compoany has just announced a new series of displays aimed more at the entry-level market. The Simplicity series is characterized by narrow-bezels, no brand logos, and some built-in media playback capability. Planar Simplicity Series full-featured digital …
Christie MicroTiles Get Tweaks For New Version September 5, 2013 by Super User It’s been four years, so Christie was about due to upgrade its little MicroTiles display blocks – though the changes are tweaks and not wholesale revisions. The newly announced MicroTiles S310 displays are JUST a bit skinnier at the seams. Featuring the same optical performance and construction as the S300, the Christie MicroTiles S310 screen is …
TargetR Now Has Both Android & Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Options August 22, 2013 by Super User The UK digital signage software firm TargetR now has platforms support both Android and Raspberry Pi, as well as standard PCs. TargetR’s new Raspberry Pi player uses the same underlying core player components from the Android Player software and in hooked into the company’s cloud-based platform. They’ve done that by adapting the player core and …
RevelDigital Releases 2nd-Gen Android Digital Signage Offer August 17, 2013 by Super User Android digital signage products have now been on the scene long enough that we’re staring to see 2nd generation products hit the market. Capital Networks released theirs recently, and now Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital has announced a new version of its hardware/software offer. RevelDigital says the new version is the result of customer feedback and working …
Haptix, Ubi Add New Possibilities For Touchless Touch In Digital Signage August 15, 2013 by Super User There’s a couple of new entrants in the emerging field of touchless touchscreens – with two very different approaches. One is hardware that has similarities to the Leap Motion, while the other is software working with Kinect. Haptix The hardware piece is from a San Francisco start-up called Haptix, and is based on software and …
