More On Those Square LCDs June 22, 2012 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
And How About $70 For A PC On A Stick? June 7, 2012 by Super User Many of the little PC and tablet gadgets coming out of Taiwan and China can only be found and ordered off websites that look profoundly dodgy, but this $70 Android 4.0 PC on a stick is up and ready to pre-order off Amazon, which I have heard of. Geeky Gadgets and a few other tech …
AMD, Seneca Data Add To The Teeny PC Parade June 7, 2012 by Super User Announcements are coming out all the time about increasingly small PCs – the smallest, of course, being those teeny Raspberry Pi units from the UK. But the flip side of those research lab efforts are major companies producing diminutive but powerful boxes. Engadget has a tech blogger at the big Computex trade show in Taiwan this …
Will 3D Sell More Burgers? June 6, 2012 by Super User We have a client in the QSR industry that does digital menu-boards and had the resources and smarts, early on, to actually ask customers what they thought about it. Without going into it much, at all, the feedback to using digital’s capabilities to animate and promote stuff did not resonate with people. They didn’t to …
