Intel-InWindow launch big-dollar interactive “Experience Stations” November 23, 2011 by Super User Intel appears to be taking its digital signage concept ideas off trade show floors and getting them into the wild, most notably though “Experience Stations” being run with New York-based Inwindow Outdoor. These stations are 70-inch multi-touch screens that also respond to gestures using Microsoft Kinect. They have built-in NFC and run Intel’s Audience Impression …
A “Surface” for real-world budgets November 23, 2011 by Super User A few things have struck me when I have seen the Microsoft Surface interactive tables in the wild. 1 – Cool. 2 – Buggy. 3 – Crazy expensive. I don’t know if Point 2 is addressed with this, but a new Surface-style touchscreen product set to debut in a couple of months at CES certainly …
NanoLumens gets shot at backboard advertising November 23, 2011 by Super User The Atlanta-based display firm NanoLumens have found their way into a market I’m guessing the guys didn’t cook up on their own, but might have some legs. The company won a small job to build four custom units to use at the annual Maui Invitational NCAA Men’s college basketball tournament in Hawaii. The organizers wanted a …
Digital signage software and player on a USB stick? November 22, 2011 by Super User Jason Cremins of SignageLive had a tweet up this morning about a Norwegian start-up that has a PC that is the size of a car cigarette lighter, but capable of running Android and driving 1080P video. Laptop magazine reports how FXI Technologies showed off a USB stick-sized portable computer prototype, complete with a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung …
Stratacache co-sponsors city-wide charity dinner in hometown November 22, 2011 by Super User Stratacache is one of the donor/sponsors for a massive Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday in its hometown of Dayton, Ohio. More than 500 volunteers will serve up a free turkey dinner to people who are struggling through the recession, or just lonely. The organizers expect to serve one ton of turkey, 1,500 pounds of coleslaw, green …
Updated: Kinetic says Eyes On not mandatory for OOH buys in New Year November 21, 2011 by Super User Kinetic Americas has clarified a news story yesterday that suggested the media planning agency was no longer going to buy any Out Of Home that was not measured by the Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement’s “Eyes On” ratings. The story suggested the world’s largest planner and buyer of OOH would only buy Eyes On-rated media starting …
Back in the saddle November 21, 2011 by Super User OK, back from a very busy few days in California and Oregon, and a buncha airplane rides that included landing gear that wouldn’t go up, ground fog and turbulence. Whee! Things I learned traveling: you can rent a car now without ever talking to anyone (Alamo kiosks), major hotels think offering less than 20 TV …
On the road November 15, 2011 by Super User Business traveling the rest of week – posts will be spotty, at best, and probably lacking images because I am humping a little iPad and not a heavy laptop. Back at desk in a few days.
ScreenScape gives free trial subscriptions in deal with Panasonic November 15, 2011 by Super User So when I saw the headline Unleash The Power of Place-based Media, I immediately thought of Keith Kelsen and his book of pretty much the same name. The title always makes me think of growling baritone voices and monster truck rallies, and gets my attention. But turns out this headline just “borrowed” that phrase, and is …
Radio City Music Hall gets projection-mapped for Rockettes November 14, 2011 by Super User It’s hard not to like 3-D projection mapping – the complicated but big-impact process of blasting big visuals on irregular surfaces. We’ve seen it done on ancient churches and big office towers, and on the iconic roofline of the Sydney opera house. Now the Rockettes’ Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall – which I …
