Sightings: Transparent LCDs Done Right January 29, 2013 by Super User I followed a link to some unrelated video from the show floor at ISE in Amsterdam, which (as often happens online) took me somewhere else and to this piece of video. This company, TransLook, does the much-copied transparent LCD thing, but does content way, way better than most of what I have seen out there. …
New Digital Poster Runs, Updates Off Solar January 29, 2013 by Super User The marketplace potential for monochromatic signs probably has a relatively low ceiling, but nonetheless there are theoretically lots of basic paper signs that could be replaced with this newest generation of electronic ink displays if the ROI made sense. Plastic Logic and SERELC have developed and are now marketing a low-power outdoor digital signage solution …
Low Bandwidth, High Quality H.265 Video Gets Standards OK January 28, 2013 by Super User In what’s kind of a big deal for ops guys and people who pay the bandwidth bills, the International Telecommunication Union has approved the H.265 video encoding standard, which means the same piece of video can have its file size reduced by half without compromising quality. So if you are moving a lot of video …
AMD Comes Up With Its Own Gizmo January 25, 2013 by Super User If you think the Raspberry Pi $35 is pretty cool and cheap and all that, but also think it’s a bit like running a donkey at The Preakness, AMD has a more expensive nerd-tinkerer gadget that it says is well-suited to low-cost digital signage apps. AMD has launched the $199 Gizmo board, described as …
Samsung To Launch Really Smart TVs For Digital Signage Market January 25, 2013 by Super User One thing that seemed pretty obvious when the panel guys started releasing smart TVs for the consumer market was that one of them would see the opportunity in also making a Smart-er TV for the commercial market, and more specifically for digital signage. Samsung appears to be the first to do so, with commercial flat …
Right Idea, Wrong Tech January 24, 2013 by Super User Digital wayfinding and meeting room events notifier touchscreens make a lot of sense in places like jumbo convention centers, and Denver’s beautiful facility (boy I wish the LVCC was more like this) has a pile of them all over the place. They look good, until you get close. Many of the screens were in a …
More Digital Signage Served With Raspberry Pi January 24, 2013 by Super User Mr. Google Alerts popped up an item on the open source community GitHub about something called the SAPO Digital Signage Client, which started as a one-off project but has got more energy behind it now as a signage solution using the ultra-low cost Raspberry Pi devices. This code, says the post, was developed internally at …
IAdea Releasing Seven New Digital Signage Devices January 22, 2013 by Super User IAdea has added to its list of appliances tuned to the needs of digital signage projects, with seven new devices that bake in emerging capabilities like HTML5. The Taiwanese company (a Sixteen:Nine sponsor) has released the new devices to sync up with appearances at Integrated Systems Europe at the end of the month and Digital …
Video: The Future Is Swiping January 18, 2013 by Super User Here’s a video that suggests how gesture technology will be a part of everyday life as the sensing technology gets more granular. It’s a wee bit cloying as a cute couple goes from lust at first sight to marriage proposal (sorry, spoiled it for you), but is effective in showing what could/can be done. Still …
Leap Motion To Drive Digital End-caps In Best Buys January 16, 2013 by Super User Tech Crunch is reporting that those little Leap Motion gesture controllers – which drives finger-level gesture controls to screens – will be sold exclusively (at first) in U.S. Best Buys and marketed using digital end-caps in the stores. The $70 controllers will be available for pre-order starting next month from Best Buy online and in-store …
