TargetR Now Has Both Android & Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Options August 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Can The Leap Motion Make A Touchless Touch Screen? August 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes The very cute little Leap Motion gesture device showed up via the post yesterday, and I had some time this morning and then this afternoon to download the software, plug the thing in, and see what it could do. For the unfamiliar, the Leap Motion is a gesture sensor that creates an infrared field in …
Research Team Adds Touch Overlay To Print Poster; Makes Interactive July 30, 2013 by Dave Haynes The conventional wisdom is that digital will continue to inexorably replace paper signage, but a research team in the UK has come with something like a hybrid. They’ve made paper interactive. As PSFK reports: Novalia is a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from the UK – all of whom are interested in turning paper into …
Webconverger’s Neon Uses Stable, Secure Browser As Digital Sign Platform July 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes I was in the middle of one of those sessions online where you start in one direction and then make a whole bunch of left turns and end up somewhere completely different, and came across some narrative about the little Raspberry Pi micro PCs, digital signage and a company called Webconverger. That was an unfamiliar …
Chipmaker Via Debuts ARM-based Android Hardware And Software Platform July 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes Taiwanese chipmaker Via has sent a note over to say it is now marketing a digital signage platform and solutions based both on the ARM and more conventional x86 PC processors. The company has also developed a VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program (ISV = Independent Software Vendor) that encourages software companies to develop to its devices, …
IAdea Releases New Scala-Certified Enterprise Devices June 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes Longtime 16:9 advertisers IAdea has announced a series of devices today that are certified to support software company Scala’s enterprise software. The new devices, says IAdea, incorporate core enhancement technologies from IAdea to offer superior system stability and display quality compared to commodity playback devices available in the market. In its news release, IAdea says: …
A Revolving, Interactive Sign That Points The Way To Pretty Much Whatever June 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes What’s dubbed the world’s most advanced directional sign handles live data feeds, rotates and points and takes requests. It’s the work of Breakfast, a New York company that is somewhere between an interactive agency and an industrial design team. These are the guys who did this cool electromagnetic dot display thing I wrote about last …
Guest Post: Digital Signage At SID 2013 June 3, 2013 by Stephen Randall Manufacturers of large display panels don’t make much — or any — money on panels for television, so the rapidly growing market for digital signage is a bright spot. SID Display Week — held May 19-24, 2013 in Vancouver, B.C. — is a display technology show that is not known for a focus on digital …
