Eastidea Marketing 2nd-Gen Of Integrated Projection Systems For Elevator Media November 8, 2023 by Super User A very, very long time ago, when TVs had tubes and cell phones were too big to slide into pockets, I got my start in digital signage with a company that put screens in office tower elevators. Back in 1999, it was hugely expensive and hugely complicated. PCs were still, generally, the size of carry-on …
Tiny Maine School District MacGyvers Digital Signage Network With $20 PCs Rescued From Reyclers November 7, 2023 by Super User The CMS software firm Rise Vision has an interesting new case study out about a school district in Maine really pushing its tight budget and multi-tasking what gear it had to boost the effectiveness and impacts of digital signage communication in its schools. Regional School Unit 25 (school names are evidently cooked up by no-nonsense …
SpinetiX, Sharp NEC Partner On Upgrade-Capable Smart Pro Displays October 31, 2023 by Super User The Swiss digital signage hardware/software SpinetiX has partnered with Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe to market a different take on so-called smart commercial displays – units that ship with Spinetix software on Intel compute modules that can slot-load into certain pro displays. The all-in-one displays run the Spinetix DSOS operating system and Arya CMS. One …
Raspberry Pi Launches Fifth Generation; Touted As 2X+ Faster Than Pi 4 October 2, 2023 by Super User The organization behind the long-running series of Raspberry Pi series of micro PCs announced the launch late last week of the fifth generation of the units – with upgrades on just about everything. It is the first major release since the Pi 4 came out four years ago. The headlines are that it is more …
Fuel Dispenser Manufacturer And Kiosk Software Firm Partner On Self-Ordering Option At Gas Station Pumps August 23, 2023 by Super User Screens on gas pumps have been developed into an advertising medium, most notably by market leader GSTV, but now a manufacturer of fuel dispensers has partnered with a kiosk software company on a set-up that puts self-service C-Store ordering out in gas station forecourts. A company called Dover Fueling Solutions (or DFS) has partnered with …
Montreal Digital Artist Pushes Distorted Views Of People Passing Through Portal To Big Video wall August 22, 2023 by Super User Hat tip to Stefan Bischof for posting about this .. This is an interesting interactive digital art piece that is a different spin on the many gesture-driven video walls we’ve all seen demo’d at trade shows. Called Liminal, it is an interactive exhibition by Montreal-based artist Louis-Philippe Rondeau that involves people passing through what amounts …
Specialty PC Maker Azulle Touts “Elite” NUC Alternative For Digital Signage, Kiosks August 11, 2023 by Super User Azulle, a specialty PC manufacturer out of the Miami area, has started marketing a small form-factor PC touted as an alternative to Intel’s Next Unit of Compute design. Intel recently announced it was discontinuing its direct manufacture and marketing of NUC PCs, but Taiwan’s Asus has an agreement to make and support the NUC product …
The 2023 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available As A Free Download July 26, 2023 by Super User The 2023 version of the annual invidis digital signage yearbook is now available as a free download. The publication – done both as an oversized print magazine and as a PDF – has some 200 pages of stories, studies, analyses and market data, primarily about the European market. For the past two years, Sixteen:Nine has …
ASUS Agrees To Deal With Intel To Continue Making, Marketing NUC Mini-PCs July 19, 2023 by Super User There were already a subset of specialty PC companies who were intending to continue building their versions of Intel’s small form factor NUC PC design, but now one of the larger consumer and business PC makers is also planning to continue the mini PC line. Intel has reached a draft agreement with ASUS that will …
No NUCs: Intel Getting Out Of Direct Manufacturing Of Mini PCs July 12, 2023 by Super User Intel has been notifying its ecosystem partners that it is backing out of direct investment its small form factor Next Unit of Computing (NUC) business, sunset-ing its own product line but encouraging partners to keep working with the reference designs. So specialty computing vendors in the digital signage and pro AV sectors that have their …
