The 4K Peril January 8, 2013 by Super User A lot of the fuss coming out of the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week is focused on big, sleek and beautiful 4K flat panel displays. They look awesome, and I can guarantee you, all kinds of end-users will be asking their digital signage vendors and integrators about 4K screens in the …
LG Debuts Projection System That Blasts 100-Inch Video From Inside Two Feet January 7, 2013 by Super User LG has its big press conference/product launch thingie at CES in Las Vegas this morning, and among the products is Hecto laser TV projector – a short-throw projector that can blast a properly composed 100-inch HD video onto a wall from less than two feet out. The interesting kicker here is that it can pull …
Clones For Apple Store’s iPad Enclosures January 3, 2013 by Super User Apple stores have been using iPads as very simple but effective digital merchandising displays, the tablets tidily and securely encased in acrylic frames. Now a company is marketing secure enclosures that mimic (OK, clone) the Apple store design, with other retailers in mind. My initial thought is that Apple must have a patent on that …
Leap Motion Gets $30M Raise; Does Asus Partnership January 3, 2013 by Super User Leap Motion – the start-up with the tiny, very granular gesture controller – has done a $30 million funding raise with existing investors and announced a partnership deal with PC maker ASUS. The ASUS deal will result in the Leap controller – which is roughly the size of a cigarette lighter – bundled with select …
Two More Android Playback Devices To Add To The Pile January 3, 2013 by Super User One of the the things that was pretty evident a year ago was how Google’s Android operating system would be applied to low-cost set-top box-like devices to create very inexpensive digital signage offers. Capital Networks showed a working device and platform at DSE 2012, as did FirmChannel. Since then, we’ve seen several more companies step …
PC Built To Take A Licking (Or Shower) December 6, 2012 by Super User My crash course in digital signage, going back to the late 90s, involved trying to sort out whether it was possible to get a computer designed that would survive all the hard bumps, the debris, the power spikes and the general nastiness that comes with sitting on top of an elevator. We never did get …
Digital Cinema’s RED Debuts Player With Digital Signage, Among Other Things, In Mind December 5, 2012 by Super User As a mere mortal who only kinda-sorta-mostly understands what geeks tell me in person and in writing, I am not quite sure what to make of the digital camera company RED saying it has a product for digital signage. On the one hand, the idea of RED have a very high-rez 4K digital cinema media …
Tech Advances Put Digital Signage Sector On Cusp Of Major Change December 3, 2012 by Super User It’s more evident by the week that technology advances and production volumes are conspiring to put digital signage on the cusp of some major changes. The catalyst for all this change is the smart device industry, which is driving interactive software development, very fast, powerful and, most important, cheap CPUs, and low-cost retail-ready displays. Multiple …
Intel NUC’s Digital Signage Sector With Impressive $300 Box November 30, 2012 by Super User I certainly think about Intel being front and center in the computing business, but much more being Intel Inside as opposed to the actual PC maker. But the tech giant has started marketing something called the Next Unit of Computing, or better, the NUC. It’s a 4 inch by 4 inch little box that’s about the …
Casio Turns On New Countertop Merchandising Displays November 28, 2012 by Super User Casio Computer is getting deeper into the digital signage business (they have been peddling projectors in the space for a while) with a new countertop display system that is part LED projector, part projection film and part laser something or other. The company plans to market the technology to restaurants and c-stores in Japan, the …
