Lots of interactive signage goodies in IPG’s new(ish) media lab November 10, 2011 by Dave Haynes IPG Mediabrands, described as the “media innovation unit” of the $34-billion media holding company Interpublic Group, has launched a whiz-bang media lab in its New York offices. The IPG Media Lab, says a release this morning, is the world’s first, and the industry’s most highly-invested immersion and exploration center dedicated to bringing the most promising …
rAVe: Pro flat panel display market up 29% this year, says new report November 7, 2011 by rave Year on year growth in the professional flat panel display sector is at nearly 29 per cent, according to new research from Futuresource Consulting. The pure pro display market experienced quarter-on-quarter growth of close to 6 percent in Q3, and volume sales for the year so far is at 454,000 units, Combining pro displays with …
HP’s new Photon Engine to paint giant 3D surfaces November 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes HP Labs, the computing giant’s central research arm, has announced a new product that allows vivid 3D images to be painted on what it describes as building-sized surfaces. “The Photon Engine paints any sized surface with precise dots of light to create a vivid way to visualize enterprise data in 2-D and 3-D,” says Carlos …
Guest Post: Digital Signage and the Internet of Things November 1, 2011 by Bas Smeets The technical community has been talking for a while now about the coming Internet of Things – when our business and personal lives see a fundamental shift in how we see and use the Internet. Right now, we use the Internet through computing devices like desktop PCs and laptops, tablets and smart phones. The digital …
Prysm announces $100M-plus raise to start volume production October 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes Investment capital may be hard to come by for a lot of digital signage people – and business in general – these days, but the guys at Prysm just raised more than $100 million. The company, which markets Laser Phosphor Display stackable display tiles, just announced new financing that will turn on volume production of the …
QR codes that spit back personalized responses October 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes The retail tech site Storefront Backtalk has a piece up about what’s promoted as a new generation of QR code scanning technology that goes beyond supplying generic information to something tailored to the person doing the scanning. Scanbuy says its technology can display different information on smartphones —and initiate different actions—based on things like the …
Cineplex rolls out multi-screen Lobby Show in its cinemas October 21, 2011 by Dave Haynes My friends over at Cineplex Digital Solutions (formerly DDC) have done a lot of great work for clients through the years, so it stands to reason that the solution they put together for the new masters would also be pretty good. They have rolled out what is called a Lobby Show network in the 130 …
Sightings: Kohl’s interactive shopping kiosks at JFK T5 October 20, 2011 by Dave Haynes I was buzzing along to Gate 1 at JFK T5 last night but stopped long long enough to take a snappie of this interesting kiosk/pop-up store thing being doing by US retailer Kohl’s at some airports. The digital kiosks allow shoppers to order Kohl’s products online and have them shipped home with free delivery. The …
rAVe: Emerson releases new fanless i5 PC for digital signage market October 20, 2011 by rave Emerson launched its first “fanless” embedded computer, now featuring the second generation Intel Core processor. To our knowledge, its the first one to use the second generation Intel Core i5-2510E dual-core processor running at 2.5 GHz. The Emerson KR8-820 is aimed at DS installs and is housed in a grooved metal enclosure that supposedly transfers …
rAVe: GestureTek releases newest interactive Cube October 20, 2011 by rave GestureTek has started shipping a new version of its plug and play interactive floor system, the Cube V4. It includes a higher resolution (1200×800) projector, which can run in either 16:9 or the original 4:3 aspect ratio. Because of the Cube V4’s ultrashort throw lens, the powerful projected image creates an image that is bigger …
