Details: Preset’s DSE Mixer Registration Is Tomorrow February 8, 2012 by Super User So … tomorrow is registration day for the 2012 version of the The Preset Group DSE Mixer, featuring the Bridgestone Halftime Show with Madonna and the Geico pig that screams “Wee Wee WEE!!!” Here’s the deal. There are 300 spots, a percentage of those already allocated to sponsor invitees and to Pat Hellberg’s private security team and …
Planar Debuts New 1:1 Ratio “LCD Tiles” February 8, 2012 by Super User The marketing and packaging of a product can be a lot of the battle in trying to look different in a crowded marketplace, and I can only tip my hat to the folks at Planar who have been doing a good job of positioning their reasonably common gear in unique ways. Stacking flat panels in …
Zoom In, And Again, And Again, And Again, And … February 8, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”4S1ER6Ya53A” width=”600″ height=”350″] This is pretty darn cool – an infinitely zooming interactive touch application developed by Toronto-based Content Interface. You pinch an image and zoom in to realize the pixels that define that image are actually images themselves, and when you zoom in more, the effect repeats. Endlessly. Every straight teenaged boy on …
We’ve Turned Six February 7, 2012 by Super User Just realized we skipped right on by birthday number 6. Sixteen:Nine started in early February 2006, mere days after Canada got electricity. So far, 2,469 posts – several that made sense. Thanks for reading and the notes I get here and there. Especially the ones not from lawyers. Details on Preset mixer registration tomorrow.
Sightings: Citibank Time-Lapsed Video Wall At JFK February 7, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”32455924″ width=”600″ height=”350″] I can’t find a whole bunch of detail about the timing or status of this project, but it’s another example of effectively using the long runs of digital screens in a concourse at JFK’s American Airlines International Terminal in New York. This is the same run of screens, I think, that …
Raspberry Pi Just About Ready February 7, 2012 by Super User The Verge tech blog is reporting the $35 Raspberry Pi – which among many things could in theory be a very low-cost digital signage player – should see the first units coming off the manufacturing line within a couple of weeks. Production started on the $35 Raspberry Pi last month, and now the team has …
Montreal, Nashville Firms Combine on Super Bowl Projection Mapping February 6, 2012 by Super User If you watched the Super Bowl and weren’t in the kitchen at halftime frantically looking for more beer you probably saw the “Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show” featuring Madonna and a pile of people, most of whom don’t feature in my iTunes collection. OK, none. What was great to me and countless AV/digital signage …
Corning Posts Day Of Glass Sequel Video February 6, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”jZkHpNnXLB0″ width=”600″ height=”350″] There are a whole bunch of things in this video I would like to order today, please and thank you, staring with the solar panel roof, the digital privacy glass and the TV the size of my living room wall. However, I don’t personally control an old Soviet republic oil supply, …
Company’s New Up-Time Service Seems To Just Keep Up With Industry Joneses February 6, 2012 by Super User Retail marketing agency/digital signage software vendor and consultancy John Ryan has announced the launch of a bank-centric digital signage monitoring application designed to maximize up-time. The company is calling its service very different, but apart from the technical details about how things happen, I’m not sure what’s actually distinct here from what’s pretty common among …
DSF Takes Crack At Bringing Mainstream Sign Industry To Digital Dark Side February 6, 2012 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is “leading a team” of people to infiltrate the big International Sign Expo trade show in Orlando next month and pour the digital sign Kool-Aid down the throats of any conventional sign people who open wide. More accurately, the association has a booth and a few of the very usual speaking …
