Tiny Green PC Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race With Touch Player June 10, 2013 by Super User Tiny Green PC, which some of you might have known earlier as Fit PC, has released an Android media player it says can convert any touch screen with Android drivers into a fully functional Android tablet – the idea being that the tablet can be a touch enabled commercial monitor of pretty much any size. …
Want Great Creative On Your Digital Signs? How About A Renoir? June 10, 2013 by Super User In the right setting – particularly corporate – the idea of screens doubling as picture frames for great works of art seems pretty appealing. A Danish company, ArtPlayer, has a subscription digital sign feed that enables users to run fine art images in HD on their screens. The company has famous works from all the great …
Projects: MLS Fans Morph Into Virtual Bobblehead Dolls June 6, 2013 by Super User The sports marketing interactive agency MVP Interactive has been doing a fan engagement thing with BBVA Compass Bank and Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo that lets people see themselves as a virtual bobblehead dolls outfitted in Dynamo colors or wearing virtual face paint. The photos generated can then be shared with friends. Says a news release: …
EBay Making Some NYC Store Windows Shoppable June 6, 2013 by Super User EBay is switching on four shop windows in New York’s lower east side tomorrow as interactive browsing and payment gateways, letting fashion-hounds select, pay for and arrange same-day shipping of goods otherwise sold inside. The first of these “shoppable windows” goes live Saturday, for a month, at locations of Kate Spade Saturday, a new fashion …
A Revolving, Interactive Sign That Points The Way To Pretty Much Whatever June 6, 2013 by Super User What’s dubbed the world’s most advanced directional sign handles live data feeds, rotates and points and takes requests. It’s the work of Breakfast, a New York company that is somewhere between an interactive agency and an industrial design team. These are the guys who did this cool electromagnetic dot display thing I wrote about last …
Obama Administration Takes Aim At Patent Trolls June 5, 2013 by Super User Every so often an exec at a software company sends me a note saying he or she just got a letter from a law firm saying they were in the legal crosshairs for alleged patent violations having to do with digital signage software design. DailyDOOH has documented this at length, and identified these companies as …
There’s No Free Lunch In Digital Signage … Except At Context Media June 5, 2013 by Super User While it’s pretty reasonable to attach the “no free lunch” adage to digital signage – as in anything free comes with some kind of cost – that’s probably not the case with Chicago-based Context Media, which is buying both lunch AND breakfast for its staff each day. The Chicago Tribune has a piece up about …
Raspberry Pi Generating Big Reader Appetite June 4, 2013 by Super User The writing I have been doing for the last few months about Android has generated a lot of interest, as reflected in booming page view numbers. The Closer Looks at some of the Android/ARM options out there have been among the most popular posts in the past quarter. But, by far, the post generating the …
Haivision Puts CoolSign On Android June 4, 2013 by Super User One of the things I try to coach clients on, when I am writing for them, is to NOT issue press releases immediately before or during big vertical market trade shows. People are traveling, away from their desks, really busy … so stuff gets missed. Like this announcement: CoolSign Is On Android, Too. That was announced …
Pic: CE Labs Preps For InfoComm June 3, 2013 by Super User CE labs is a happy Sixteen:Nine advertiser, and I am looking forward to meeting for the first time VP Tony Smith and some of his Garland, TX colleagues, as they show their pots and pans at InfoComm in Orlando next week. The Orlando online weather forecasts are telling me it will feel like 109F. Which …
