Add The iStick To The Sub-$100 PC List August 1, 2012 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User [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 Super User 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 Super User [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. …
Italy’s Edisonweb Joins HTML5 Gang July 2, 2012 by Super User Italian software firm Edisonweb is the latest digital signage player to go HTML5, announcing this week it has done a partner deal to use IAdea’s digital signage media appliances. The company’s Web Signage platform, it says, was the first to be integrated with the cloud-based Windows Azure platform. Edisonweb says using IAdea’s SMIL players allows the company to …
Will Interactive Digital Signage Take A Giant Leap With New Gesture Technology? June 27, 2012 by Super User Kinect applications for digital signage have left me pretty much cold because of accuracy issues and the necessary learning curve to make things happen. Despite the hype, I just don’t see it. The technology from a startup called Leap Motion is where gesture-driven public signage will go. Leap Motion uses VGA camera sensors to track …
Sightings: Counter Display Scans Pre-made Meals To Show Ingredients, Calories June 26, 2012 by Super User I’ve not seen this before, and think it’s kinda clever in a limited use way. Signio, A Danish digital signage integrator, is working with a food services company, Foodmarket, at Copenhagen’s airport. They have done menu boards, but the interesting bit for me is counter-mounted interactive screens that let people select a sandwich or salad …
