IAdea Releasing Seven New Digital Signage Devices January 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
The 4K Peril January 8, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
