What Apple’s iBeacons Mean For Digital Signage December 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
The Big-Ass Tablets Are Coming! November 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
