CETW videos – quickie demo with Ludicast (DS-mobile integration) November 12, 2010 by Dave HaynesLudicast is s small NYC company that has been around the digital signage space for a couple of years. I pulled out my Flip at CETW and asked founder Nate Kidwell to walk me through their quickie pitch. More of these to come from a few companies …
Gorilla glass for dumb monkeys November 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesAs someone who has done a lot of digital deployments, I have stood in a venue and watched the people coming and going, wondering all the time what could protect the fragile display against all the dumb monkeys I was spotting the crowd. These were people you kinda knew, somehow, would tamper with stuff just …
HP's expanded digital signage offer is (big yawn) Scala imaged on a couple of desktops November 8, 2010 by Dave HaynesWell, it’s better than HP featuring a re-badged display monitor as its big digital signage offer, but one has to hope this is just a couple of more toes in the water and HP will ultimately show a little more inspiration than marketing a couple of existing desktop boxes pre-imaged with a version of Scala. …
NanoLumens explained, in video, to tech blogger Robert Scoble November 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe NanoLumens guys got some major love and exposure this week from highly influential tech blogger Robert Scoble. I THINK he saw the thin, flexible digital signage display when he was at an event in which the Atlanta company picked up a major tech innovation award. Scobleizer, the term used for primary blog and how …
Intel's new open pluggable spec for digital signage gets mixed review from Iadea November 4, 2010 by Dave HaynesOne of the featured presentations a few weeks ago at the Digital Signage Expo Industry Forum was done by Jose Avalos, Intel’s main guy on all things digital signage. He talked about several things (and ran a very cool video at the end that I still can’t find online). But the big thing was an …
Buy your digital signage gear from Office Depot! No, really … November 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesAs spotted on the interwebs, Office Depot somewhere on the back 40 of its e-commerce site, in the monitors and projectors section (quite logically): Digital Signage! You can buy LG’s NC1000, which I assume has some flavor of the SuperSign software loaded in it. Or you can buy a 19″ 4:3 Samsung monitor with a …
Digital View joins digital signage in a box race November 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesMany, many companies have come out in the last two or three years with digital signage in a box offers, all with variations on why their kit is different. One of the oldest companies in the digital signage sector, Digital View, has announced its own version. I am more than three years removed from working …
Whatamap's mobile service pushes wayfinding from Al Barq's screens to phones November 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesI like digital wayfinding solutions in places like malls and big public facilities because, done well, they make it a lot easier to get people from here to there. There’s one small snag, though. Even with digital providing guidance with speed and accuracy, the information is on that screen and can tend to go into …
Guest Post: The evolution of digital signage is underway October 28, 2010 by Jason CreminsIn the digital signage sector, the evolution of technology in one month is the equivalent to one million years in human development. Sounds a bit much, I know, but stay with me here. Cynics in the tech gadget world smirked when the iPhone came along in 2007, derisively calling it the “Jesus Phone” and scoffing …
Is it one 330-inch display or a wall of 60s? October 26, 2010 by Dave HaynesFrom Display Blog, via Display Alliance News, word of a massive display wall planned for a Tokyo rail station. The big questions. This is being hyped by Sharp or someone as a 330-inch display. But when it is 18 60-inch displays all tiled neatly together, is it? For what little my opinion matters, it’s a …