Montreal, Nashville Firms Combine on Super Bowl Projection Mapping February 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes If you watched the Super Bowl and weren’t in the kitchen at halftime frantically looking for more beer you probably saw the “Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show” featuring Madonna and a pile of people, most of whom don’t feature in my iTunes collection. OK, none. What was great to me and countless AV/digital signage …
Rave at ISE2012: Vids, vids and more vids February 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes Content partner rAVe continues to have its team running around ISE in Amsterdam show video. You can find them all here at ravenowise.com You could spend hours looking, and I think the crew could better balance organization and curation over sheer numbers. But here, for example, are a couple of companies doing the transparent LCD …
rAVe at ISE2012: Kayye’s Day One Summary February 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes The day started like any other in Amsterdam, except for the fact that it was snowing, freezing cold and we were in a line to get into the Amsterdam RAI (the convention center’s moniker) with about 35,000 other folks that made their way through the gates that funneled on to the ISE 2012 show floor. …
rAVe at ISE: BrightSign’s Hastings Does Live Data Show & Tell January 31, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”x0BxPA-MXn4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Here’s Jeff Hastings of BrightSign – which has a nice series of connected, fanless media playout boxes – showing how it can ingest and display live data. In this case, it shows queue management for a discount haircutting place, which doesn’t sound all that sexy but is probably pretty practical. rAVe …
rAVe at ISE: Real-time Authoring Out Of Big Database January 31, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”4RbN_wxAiy4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] This seems like a pretty big challenge but the sales guy from Hamburg, Germany-based Ventuz shrugglingly describes here how the software can generate real-time visual presentations out of an SAP database. He never utters the demon phrase “digital signage” but you could imagine in corporate settings the application. Pretty cool.
rAVe at ISE: Chief Debuts Portable Video Wall January 30, 2012 by rave Chief has announced plans recently to release a new Fusion Series mobile video wall cart this spring. The new freestanding solution makes it possible to construct video walls in prominent locations for temporary situations or when a wall-mounted installation is not an option and accommodates most 40–65” (102-165 cm) displays. Available in two configurations, the …
Start-up Puts Digital Menu System On Smart TVs January 30, 2012 by Dave Haynes A small SF Bay-area firm has paired up with another local start-up to offer a digital menu board system that integrates with the Point Of Sale set-up and eliminates the need for a PC bolted on the back of the display. This system relies, instead, on the emerging wave of so-called smart TVs. Digital Menu …
UK Startup Builds Digital Signage Networking Into Power Sockets January 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes A lot of digital signage installs use WiFi, but the most stable, reliable way to connect networked media players remains hard-wired ethernet connections. That has meant pulling Cat5 or 6 cables all over the place, which can be a bear in terms of cost, time and hassle. Using the electrical infrastructure of a building (its …
MGM Grand Lights Up Huge Lobby Video Wall January 18, 2012 by Dave Haynes It’s really not that long ago when people in this sector were pretty giddy to even see a digital signage screen or two integrated into the back wall of a hotel reception desk. Now, with dropping prices and better technology, digital signage can BE the back wall. David Levin, the president of Four Winds Interactive, …
Intel, YCD Show Off Digital Merchandising Concept At NRF January 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes I frankly couldn’t make heads or tails out of a press release involving YCD and Intel, and a thing they were showing off this week at the NRF show in New York, but I was sent a case study that has since cleared the fog. What the release said: Using second generation Intel® CoreTM i5 …
