The 2023 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available As A Free Download July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Bahrain Star-Up Touts Autonomous Wandering Ad Screen Robots July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes I was amazed at a couple of recent trade shows to still see companies marketing an ad solution that involves screens that are attached to backpacks and harnesses worn by people, the displays looming over the heads of the humans, or running on the backpacks. It’s an idea and effort that’s been around for maybe …
Bank HQ Puts In Reactive Digital Koi Pond As Calming Oasis For Staffers, But Tops It With Big TVs??? June 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes My first reaction to this interesting set-up in a common area of a corporate campus is “Hmmm ….” Like tilting my head and rubbing my chin “Hmmm …” Like I get what the bank and solutions providers were going for, but not sure it gets there – creating a reactive digital koi pond that people …
Just Keep Zooming In On Visuals With This Large Format Interactive Display Software June 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the more compelling interactive display solutions I’ve ever seen made me say Oh Wow! when I first saw it 10-plus years ago, and it did that again when I saw it down at InfoComm last week. A little Toronto company called Content Interface markets a handful of software-driven solutions for large-format displays and …
Taiwan’s AAEON Touts New Micro PC For “Low-Cost” Applications Like Digital Signage June 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan-based single-board computer maker AAEON has announced a teeny new micro PC it says is aimed at low-cost applications like digital signage, but the PICO-EHL1 isn’t all that low-cost. The unit cost for this new PICO-ITX form factor is listed as $250 USD on the AAEON site, while the price for a Raspberry Pi …
It’s Now Possible To Map And Project On Moving Objects In Real Time June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Projection mapping has steadily grown easier and better through the years, and is now at a point that a software-hardware technology stack can do all the work to accurately map and project on moving objects … in real time. It was not all that long ago that mapping a stationary object – like a building …
New Peerless-AV System Touted As Removing Time, Hassles Of Mounting LED On Anything-But-Flat Walls June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Av solutions firm Peerless-AV’s shiniest new object at InfoComm 2023 next week will be its new and now-shipping universal LED video wall mounting system the company says takes much of the time and pain out of getting walls to look right on uneven vertical surfaces. Called the SEAMLESS Kitted Series Universal dvLED Mounting System (DS-LEDUNV), …
Chief Says New Tempo Flat Panel Mount Solution Streamlines Display Deployments May 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes The AV infrastructure firm Chief says a new wall mount system for digital signage displays streamlines installation workflows and therefore has the potential to also shave labor costs on deployments, using the age-old time equals money mindset. The company says it will be showing integrators and solutions providers at InfoComm the new Tempo Flat Panel …
