Italy’s Edisonweb Joins HTML5 Gang July 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
More On Those Square LCDs June 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes The German firm EyeVis could, I suppose, be manufacturing its own square LCD tiles, but there is a much greater chance they are re-branding units that Samsung was showing last week. EyeVis also apparently had them there, but I was too busy looking at their crazy-shaped MicroTiles alternatives, called OmniShapes. Samsung is doing such a …
Capital Formally Launches Android Product Bundle June 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes Capital Networks was showing at DSE an Android-based media player for digital signage, and saying it would be out by late spring. Well, it’s late spring and it’s now out. The Audience for Android media player and software bundle is a mash-up that takes much of the capability of Capital’s product and gets it running …
The Touch-y Subject Of Touch Tech For Digital Signage June 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes One of the more interesting sessions I took in at last week’s DisplaySearch conference – ahead of InfoComm – was on emerging interactive technologies. Speaking pretty much faster than I can think, Jennifer Colegrove of DisplaySearch spoke about where the touch industry is at and put up a few slides that nicely reflected why it …
Samsung Turns On Curious New Square LCDs June 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes Samsung’s gigantor booth at InfoComm included a section devoted to a new product with the silky smooth product marketing title of UD22B – Square Type Super-Narrow Bezel Display . Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? We’d be happy to give Samsung some advice, but our last contact with them was a lengthy call with their people trying …
IAdea Debuts Signboard Kits For Digital Signage June 13, 2012 by Dave Haynes You may notice an IAdea banner ad at the top of the page this morning. The company is one of a couple of firms coming on as advertisers this week. I am at InfoComm and stealing some Starbucks wifi before I go to the show, and will have a look at what IAdea has there. …
Fuji Xerox Shows Latest E-Paper Prototype June 8, 2012 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper that supports genuine video is still quite a ways off, but there is definitelty some progress being made. Fuji Xerox Co Ltd showed e-paper that produces color without a filter at SID 2012 this week in Boston. Warning – strap on propeller beanies now: The color e-paper (electrophoretic display) developed by Fuji Xerox, …
BBC Explainer On Projection Mapping Buckingham Palace June 8, 2012 by Dave Haynes If you like 3D projection mapping – beaming interesting visuals on to surfaces like churches, castles and opera houses – but were wondering how the hell they do it, this BBC piece about the Buckingham Palace job earlier this week is useful. It describes how a small London company, Treatment, turned the palace into social …
