Key West Debuts SignWave For Meeting Room Market March 19, 2013 by Super User Keywest Technology is the latest digital signage software developer to get on the Android OS bus, announcing a system called SignWave that’s expressly focused on event and meeting room signs. The idea is to marry Android OS tablets with third-party property and event management systems that are commonly used in corporate, hospitality and higher education …
Video/Pix: NYC’s Reinvent Payphone Finalists March 7, 2013 by Super User Tech blog The Verge has a good piece up this morning about finalist entries in a competition intended to reinvent payphones in New York City. It’s an initiative, reports the blog, that invites students, urban planners, and designers to propose their visions for the payphone of the future. The finalists were selected as winners in six …
Detail: BroadSign’s New $99 Android Player March 4, 2013 by Super User A lot of people I chatted with last week mentioned BroadSign’s re-emergence at Digital Signage Expo in a full booth (this time last year they’d announced Chapter 11 re-structuring) and the unveiling of a $99 Android-based player. Going Android is in no way unique, but what distinguishes what BroadSign is doing from many of the …
79 Ways To Use Android For Digital Signage March 4, 2013 by Super User Here is a list of the digital signage software and related companies that now have Android products on the market, sorted alphabetically after the featured (advertising) companies (as of Nov. 2015): FEATURED CAPITAL NETWORKS MARKHAM, ON CANADA RISE VISION TORONTO, ON, CANADA BROADSIGN MONTREAL, QC, CANADA MVIX USA FULL LIST Admira (Spain) AdServe …
Navori Gets On The Android Train With Sub-$50 Player February 14, 2013 by Super User Swiss-based digital signage software firm NAVORI has ported its platform – which has run for years on Windows – to also run on the Google Android operating system. “We have been developing our QL Android player engine way before the Android OS™ proved to emerge from the initial smartphone platform it was intended for to …
Retail Business Intelligence Engine Tracks Shopper Trends By Smartphone IDs February 12, 2013 by Super User The ability to understand what consumers are doing in retail environments has been the domain these past few years of video-driven analytics that use overhead cameras to generate heat-maps of where shoppers go and where they don’t. Companies like Intel, via its video analytics technology, can also generate data on things like gender, dwell time …
Finally, A Hand-Cranked Digital Sign February 11, 2013 by Super User The only time I’ve written about kiosk-maker Zivelo was to slap them around on some really goofy PR, so I am happy to this time instead reference something a little out there, but nonetheless pretty interesting. The Marion, Indiana-based company (small town, 3 hrs south of Chicago) has launched what it calls the X-Eco kiosk, …
A 201-inch LED Display That Hides In The Ground February 8, 2013 by Super User This is just flat ridiculous in so many ways, but the technical design is pretty interesting in terms of what an events center or other large public facility could, at least theoretically, do with it. Put together by a German company, C-Seed, with a design by Porsche Design Studio, it’s a 201-inch waterproof LED board that …
When Digital Signage Really Would Be TV … February 6, 2013 by Super User I have seen press releases and stories here and there about how the broadcast spectrum came available when analog TV went digital had opened up white space to use for micro broadcasts in distinct settings, like digital signage programming in big box retail and large corporate facilities. The dual-headed argument has been that WiFi is …
LG Plugs In 11-Foot Tall 4K Display Beast At McCarran February 6, 2013 by Super User Well this happened faster than I would have predicted. A lot of the buzz from the display panel companies, coming out of last month’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, surrounded 4K displays. I wrote at the time that it would not take long before these ultra-ultra-ultra high resolution displays found their way into digital …
