rAVe: AMX ships new enterprise digital signage software application October 20, 2011 by rave Dubbed Inspired Composer 5, AMX’s new enterprise-wide digital signage software application is designed to ensure a consistent look and feel across all signs in an organization, as well as schedule creative content. Developed for use with the Inspired XPert digital signage players (both 1080p native IS-XPT-2000 and IS-200) from AMX, Inspired Composer 5 allows for …
A wind turbine that would double as a digital billboard October 15, 2011 by Dave Haynes Spotted on EarthTechling via TechCrunch: The guys behind the Segway, but more to the point a pile of life-improving medical devices, have applied for a patent for a wind turbine that would double as a sort of digital billboard. Reports Earth Techling: Although the patent application (by DEKA Research) talks some about the power-producing possibilities of …
rAVe: Multitouch debuts 55-inch multi-user touch display October 13, 2011 by rave The Finnish firm MultiTouch has announced the introduction of what it is calling the world’s largest integrated multi-user LCD multitouch display, the MultiTaction Cell 55. The product, a 55-inch display, is the first to emerge from the company’s new software and hardware platform for large-scale multitouch LCD displays, MultiTaction. It can track unlimited touch points, including hands, …
rAVe: Videotel Markets DVD Player for Digital Signage October 12, 2011 by rave Dubbed the HD2600, Videotel’s latest DVD player outputs 720p (and up-scaled 1080p) via HDMI and includes DS features such as auto starts, auto plays and auto repeats even after a power loss. This is an interesting concept for a low-cost DS system, but presents a management issue as changing content requires someone to change the …
rAVe: A paper-thin poster AND speaker October 11, 2011 by rave Editor’s note: With speakers already very small (think tablets) there may be limited application for this in OOH and Digital OOH settings, but it is nonetheless pretty slick. A poster showing a traditional loudspeaker that can play real music was launched this week by the designer http://www.finnmagee.com. The poster is one of the first HomeAV products …
rAVe: Future of Display is Shaped: Mitsubishi’s Semispherical OLED Display October 11, 2011 by rave Ask yourself about “shape of the future” in displays and the natural conclusion is that once displays go flatter and flatter, the next direction is shape-changing. This June, Mitsubishi Electric created a semispherical OLED display called Geo-Cosmos for Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Now the concept has developed further with a prototype …
Advertising as immersive apps for Digital OOH and retail October 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes Suppose when you wandered into the subway or were hanging out at a transit stop that a nearby poster, humping that day’s hottest new smartphone release, caught your eye. There would be a beauty shot of the phone, and some brief but excited text hammering its biggest selling point. You’d remember that, maybe, and when …
Newad adds NFC to Out Of Home ad poster network October 5, 2011 by Dave Haynes The Montreal-based out of home and digital out of home company Newad will be one of the first media companies in North America to add Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to its network of ad posters, starting in the new year with NFC chips embedded in some 200 backlit poster boards at Canadian college campuses. The chips …
Gadget news: DirectX 11, Raspberry Pi September 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes Geek.com is relaying news that AMD has released a new graphics processor chip that’s optimized for the high-end video and motion graphics needs of commercial sectors like casino gaming and digital signage, using DirectX 11 graphics and features. Skip this paragraph if you are not a propellerhead: The Radeon E6460 embedded GPU is a 40nm chip running …
3M starts to show new digital signage hand with Pixel Qi investment September 12, 2011 by Dave Haynes When news came along that Jeff Dowell – who had been running LG’s digital signage effort in the US – was going back to 3M and working on digital signage stuff there, people were naturally curious about how 3M was going to play in the space. The company had been involved pretty heavily as a …
