Touch me and tell me how you’d vote September 9, 2011 by Dave Haynes The use of anonymous video analytics for Digital OOH home audience measurement and dynamic ad serving has been touted for a while now, but now a Dallas-Forth Worth company is promoting a new spin on that by suggesting the same technology be used for political polling and candidate marketing. Access1 Media has launched what it …
How to come up with a touchless interactive option that won’t embarrass users September 6, 2011 by Dave Haynes Suppose you wanted to use digital displays to keep staff informed and also make video information available on demand, but the workplace is way too grimy to use a touch screen. Staff in industrial settings who spend their days around dirt, dust and grease are not good candidates for flicking, swiping and pushing a touchscreen in the …
The $25 digital signage player closer to reality August 30, 2011 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in May about a project that was working with the premise of a modestly-functioning computing device that would cost all of $25. The Raspberry Pi project, as its called, is still ticking along, and there’s more evidence that the people involved may get something off the test bench and into the real world. TechCrunch has a video …
Digital billboard energy costs dropping substantially: report July 12, 2011 by Dave HaynesWe 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 Dave HaynesThe 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 Dave HaynesSo 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave HaynesA 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave HaynesVideo 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 …
