Can The Leap Motion Make A Touchless Touch Screen? August 7, 2013 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
A Talking Flat Lady I Kinda Sorta Like (Must Have Skipped My Meds) May 3, 2013 by Super User As much as I dislike Talking Flat Ladies, they’ve gone over well enough – very surprisingly – at Logan Airport in Boston to merit ordering another three of the virtual assistant projection thingdoodles And the company that’s been championing the things is introducing a new version next week that I actually kinda sorta like, again …
UCView Latest Digital Signage Software Firm To Go Android April 3, 2013 by Super User LA-based UCView appears poised to be the latest digital signage software company to release an Android product, or in this case, a pair of them. The news release came out on April Fool’s Day (my free PR advice: don’t do PR that day), but I assume CEO Guy Avital is serious (why would he not be?) about …
Android POS Tablet Suggests Where Merchants Are Going, And DS Vendors Should Follow March 21, 2013 by Super User We’re already seeing the start of a shift in consumer environments away from highly proprietary and (usually) expensive systems to leaner, less costly ones playing off consumer devices and nimble software. Small merchants are using iPads as POS systems and very large companies like Apple use their own portable devices to transact in the aisles …
