Gear: Giada’s Super-Skinny $274 PC August 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes “Giada” is Italian for “Jade” but that’s about the only tie this mini PC company has to the land of Amarone and bunga bunga parties. The manufacturer is actually Shenzen Jiehe Technology Development Corp., which is definitely not based in Torino. The company’s newly announced i35G mini PC is the sort of teeny tiny box that could …
Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water August 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes As spotted in The Verge: French artist Antonin Fourneau created digital art project last month in the small city of Poitiers that used a temporary wall of custom LED panels to empower graffiti painted on using water. As the blog explains it, the Water Light Graffiti project was made of thousands of LEDs, each of which …
Singapore MediaCo Using Digital TV To Drive Digital OOH Bus Stop Network August 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes A Singapore media company is using what seems to be a pretty unique way to get content running Digital OOH screens at bus stops there. MediaCorp, described as Singapore’s leading media company, is using data channels in the country’s DVB-T digital television broadcasting system to deliver content. Instead of cellular broadband or hard-wired copper, the …
Add The iStick To The Sub-$100 PC List August 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes A Silicon Valley-based firm called PQ Labs has a new micro PC called the iStick that is about the size of a breakfast snack bar, and costs about what you’d pay for a snack bar at Whole Foods – $69. Apple’s lawyers will no doubt be noodling whether to bother sending PQ a “To Whom …
Wifarer’s Indoor Positioning Goes Live In BC Museum August 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes Victoria, BC-based Wifarer has some nice technology that enables indoor positioning using the WiFi already installed in a venue, and is starting to get some traction. The company has exhibited at some Digital Signage Expo events and I’ve always liked the approach. The company did a pilot with the Royal British Columbia Museum and that …
Should The Lowly Room For Rent Sign Go Digital? July 31, 2012 by Dave Haynes Is an Apartment For Rent sign suddenly more impactful when it is digital, instead of printed on paper or plastic? Big Hmmm. A Toronto digital signage company that has been doing digital menuboards outside sit-down restaurants up here is now trying out a similar idea for the apartment rental market. Flagship Properties has an agreement …
Roundup: As Expected, Lots Of Raspberry Pi In The Digital Signage Oven July 27, 2012 by Dave Haynes The little Raspberry Pi project that is trying to push out a useful computing for $35 has, as expected, attracted attention and activity from the digital signage sector – which is steadily pushed on lowering costs and minimizing footprints. There is now a wiki running on eLinux.org tracking some of the open source and commercial …
MIT Tries LCD Layers To Improve Glasses-Free 3D July 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”VJWJMh1PmR4″ width=”610″ height=”343″] Glasses-free 3D, as now presented, kinda, generally sucks. It just doesn’t look great and the visual trickery that’s done using lenticular lens overlays is probably never going to get to a point that people would want to watch it for sustained periods. Why some companies are using it for ad-based digital …
Indoor Atlas Re-Thinks Indoor Positioning July 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes The big problem I have with most digital wayfinding systems is that they show you – with icons or even animated paths – how to get somewhere in a mall, or campus, airport, or purposefully bewildering, we’re-not-letting-you-leave casino-resort. But then you get 50 feet away and forget the directions. GPS can’t typically help because you’re …
Skype Gets A Public “Phone Booth” July 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”CFnsHHL8DXM” width=”600″ height=”350″] The advertising model side of this is, I would say, mostly wishful thinking, but nonetheless this thing is kinda clever and has some possibilities in the right setting. As reported in Digital Signage Today, this is a beta test of a kiosk-like product, almost like a phone booth, but using Skype. …
