Latest AR Virtual Dressing Room Takes The Cake January 12, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”WwUa14mNNhY” width=”600″ height=”350″] The virtual dressing room-augmented reality thing has been around for a few years, and the first iterations by companies like Zugara were pretty interesting but well off from truly ready for the marketplace. As you might expect, the applications keep getting better (including Zugara’s), but a new one by a company …
Calgary’s New Science Centre Sparks Up 48-Unit MicroTiles Wall January 12, 2012 by Super User When my kids were a lot younger and we still lived out west, we’d take them now and then to Calgary’s old concrete number of a science centre west of downtown. Spent many hours there. So I was intrigued to see the oil-rich city now has a shiny new centre, complete with shiny new video …
Scala Works Deal For Connected Digital Signage On A USB Stick January 10, 2012 by Super User Software maker Scala is continuing its push – and pretty much a solitary push – into the digital picture frame market. The company has announced a strategic partnership with Isabella Products to “develop sales, marketing, and technology initiatives for 2012 and beyond for the digital signage market.” Based outside of Boston, Isabella describes itself as “a …
Shuttle Joins Skinny Digital Signage PC Pack January 10, 2012 by Super User Shuttle has been around for ages with smallish PCs that are about the size of toasters – good for tight spots in an equipment cabinet or up on a shelf, but still to big and bulky to attach to the back of a display panel. I see from the blizzard of press coming out of …
Updated: HTML5 Now Finding Its Way Into Digital Signage January 9, 2012 by Super User Taiwan-based computing device manufacturer IAdea has announced a set of media players that support the rapidly emerging HTML5 content standard – with the company suggesting broad industry adoption of HTML5 will lower content creation costs and power highly dynamic programming on low-cost boxes. The company has announced three networked “XMP” playback devices it says are …
ComQi Builds “Magical” Mirrors Into Offer January 9, 2012 by Super User I don’t know what is all that magical about putting a three second delay on a video signal, but ComQi is describing its integration of an interactive solution called delayMirror as a “magical experience” for shoppers. The technology and concept is actually more than a decade old, with its roots in the Interactive Institute Stockholm, …
E-paper display now supports full video and color December 19, 2011 by Super User [youtube id=”G7SUv9Jd490″ width=”600″ height=”350″] We’re starting to see digital merchandising products come on the market that can last a full retail day on a lithium battery, and then get recharged overnight. The attraction and need is getting digital in places where power is not available or requires ugly power cord runs or drops. So what …
The Blurring Lines Of Digital Signage December 18, 2011 by Super User A press release that moved the other day got me thinking about the ongoing question about what one might logically call digital signage, and what’s really something else. When I first saw an image for VendScreen, I assumed what I was looking at was the digitally-faced front of the whole vending machine. In fact, it’s …
Japanese Vending Machine Tests Transparent LCDs, Video Analytics December 16, 2011 by Super User [youtube id=”8pPCIPHTe3M” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Japanese tech news site DigInfo TV has a post and video up about a concept involving a transparent LCD, vending machines and video analytics. This concept model for a next-generation vending machine, which features a see through display, is being developed by Sanden, a large manufacturer of vending machines, in …
rAVe: New Planar display tower makes shape the king December 2, 2011 by rave Planar Systems has introduced what it calls the Planar Silhouette , a “video display sculpture” the company publicly spotlighted on Nov. 30 at the Avant Gallery in Miami Beach, Florida, in connection with the weeklong Design Miami art event. The Planar Silhouette display, which towers over 10-feet tall, provides a new solution for architects, designers …
