Digital billboard energy costs dropping substantially: report July 12, 2011 by Super UserWe have long heard how the costs of big LED billboards have dropped substantially over the past 10 years, and how that is driving the big uptick and switch by outdoor companies to digital from analog. Now there’s engineering evidence that the biggest operating cost – powering all those LEDs – is also dropping substantially. …
Japanese company runs big multi-touch display running Android OS July 7, 2011 by Super UserThe Japanese company SKR Technology has developed a demo multi-touch system that runs the Android on a 32? display – another sign that the user experience people now have on smartphones is making the jump to much larger screens for digital signage applications. Reports Akihabara News: Running off a regular Android terminal which is connected …
How long 'til the virtual assistant gets drifted by a real shopper? July 7, 2011 by Super UserSo how long before someone wanders in off the streets of New York and sucker-punches Duane Reade’s “virtual assistant” inside its new flagship store? Three days, maybe? Reports Chain Store Age: The technology, the Tensator Virtual Assistant, is provided by Lawrence, a Tensator Group Co. Completely customized for Duane Reade, it takes the form of …
Sightings: Interactive product locator in Canadian Tire June 29, 2011 by Super User I have known the guys at Toronto-based Jibestream for more than a year and (disclosure) done some work with them here and there. They do interactive work for public-facing screens and have developed some very nice stuff, like a GIANT interactive wayfiding/directory piece in the concourse of Toronto’s Pearson T1 airport terminal. They have a …
Numbers show digital signage display giants differ in North America and globally June 24, 2011 by Super UserA week after getting home from InfoComm I am starting to actually dig into some of my notes, materials stuck on USB drives by PR people, and downloaded conference presentations. I was a little late getting to the DisplaySearch conference and missed much of host Chris Connery’s opening presentation, which had some really interesting stats …
Sighting: Oregon college Cascades its interactive digital signage June 23, 2011 by Super User I really like a combined interactive installation put together for the University of Oregon’s Ford Alumni Center in Eugene – as it makes a nice use of shapes and offers a simple but hard to ignore user experience. The install, developed by the interactive design firm Second Story, involves a set of multi-touch LCD …
InfoComm follow-up: Salitek's 16 by 4 video wall June 20, 2011 by Super UserVideo walls, I both heard and saw, are big business at the moment for the AV crowd that packed InfoComm last week. There were a few BIG walls here and there but the one that caught my eye was one from Chicago’s Salitek, which used 64 Orion zero-bezel plasmas in a 16 wide by four …
InfoComm 2011 Wrap-up June 20, 2011 by Super UserBack at world HQ, where it is 20 degrees F cooler and my thoughts extend beyond sources of water and/or beer. Orlando did not seem as hot and humid as it did two years ago, but still … The final event numbers for InfoComm 2011 eclipsed 33,000, so this is a show that is roughly …
NanoLumens wins big US breakthrough tech award June 16, 2011 by Super UserNanoLumens beat out some very impressive technologies – including Kinect – to win the Breakthrough Technology category for the American Technology Awards, described as the only national “Best Of” awards recognizing all technology products and services throughout the U.S. Atlanta-based NanoLumens — which has gained a lot of attention and market traction for its lightweight, …
InfoComm 2011 – Day 1 Impressions June 15, 2011 by Super UserResting my aching feet and back after a day of wandering about and chatting through the first of three days at InfoComm in Orlando. The international reception across the road promises the chance to “partake” (who still uses that word???) of drinks and snacks. Thirsty me is highly likely to partake. Day 1 at least …
