The Blurring Lines Of Digital Signage December 18, 2011 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes [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 …
Portugal’s Sendae turns transparent LCD into a mirror November 30, 2011 by Dave Haynes [vimeo id=”32752656″ width=”600″ height=”350″] The Portuguese startup Sendae has launched what it is calling the world’s first transparent/mirror LCD display. The product combines an optically-coated mirror film with a transparent LCD, the kind that have recently been turning up at trade shows. “Transparent LCDs are the most recent, cool, products in the displays market. We gave it an upgrade, …
DisplayPort adoption rates climbing fast November 30, 2011 by Dave Haynes The Video Electronics Standards Association, or VESA, is reporting a significant rise in the number of commercial panel makers and product that now have DisplayPort connections. VESA says Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi, NEC, and Samsung have released more than 50 digital signage displays that use DisplayPort in the last 12 months. “The momentum seen in digital signage …
Google’s Maps go indoors; digital wayfinding guys twitch November 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”Gy-DI_bWElg” width=”600″ height=”350″] If your company has been developing wayfinding applications, particularly for things like airports and malls, you’ve probably been thinking Google might present a bit of a problem at some point. That point appears to have arrived, with Google’s announcement that the maps it serves up that allow billions of people to …
Guest Post: Selling Digital Signage Effectively In “The Channel” November 29, 2011 by Bas Smeets Selling digital signage technology looks relatively easy in principle, but proves much harder in practice for a lot of companies that add these products and services to their portfolios. It’s a display mounted on a wall, driven by a PC, it’s reasonably assumed, so what could be hard about that? The problem for companies that …
UK firm debuts Android-driven tablet for retail digital signage November 28, 2011 by Dave Haynes When the iPad was first announced, lotsa people started musing about how these sleek screens could be used in retail settings at the shelf edge and on counters. But the rather big caveat was that the things were not designed for steady public use and abuse. Even Apple has done some protective work and bolted …
Toronto’s main airport rolls out massive digital wayfinding stations November 28, 2011 by Dave Haynes The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which runs Canada’s busiest airport in guess where, has OK’d a big expansion of the digital wayfinding system its been testing for a while – even giving the system its own brand. The Digital Advertising and Wayfinding Network (DAWN) is 18 BIG advertising display screens and flanking interactive terminals at …
Missed it by THAT much November 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes Display Daily has an insightful piece out today about the iconic Christmas windows at Macy’s on 34th Street in New York, and an attempt at introducing glasses-free 3D into the displays. As Maxwell Smart would often say, the people who pulled it together apparently “missed it by THAT much.” Macy’s put a 132-inch autostereoscopic 3D …
