Airgoo Joins The ARM Race With Latest Android Digital Signage Offer May 2, 2013 by Super User The UK-based AV integrator and distributor Anders+Kern, or A+K, is an unusual new entry in the ARM race, announcing an ARM-based Android digital signage player and management system. The A+K Airgoo is a micro-player stick that plugs into a display panel HDMI port and runs Android 4.0 on a 1GHz CPU. It has 4GB storage for media …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At Instillo’s Pure Play Solution May 1, 2013 by Super User We’re now at 11 entries, and still counting, in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices …
Marketing: BroadSign Launches Women In Digital Signage Series May 1, 2013 by Super User BroadSign has taken a couple of very different – for this sector – marketing steps of late. They’ve hired a dedicated writer to work on marketing and communications material, and the company is producing written material that isn’t the same old Five Keys To Digital Signage BlahBlah ZZZzzzz. I saw BroadSign lifer Dan Parisien down …
FWi Re-Markets Kiosk Capability As App In Apple’s Online Store April 30, 2013 by Super User There are a few kiosk apps built already for turning iPads into locked-down showroom product knowledge devices, but as far as I know Denver-based Four Winds Interactive is the first digital signage company to effectively port its interactive software to an App Store version that anyone can just buy and run. The company’s iDS Kiosk …
Menu Boards: Would You Like A Side Of FUD With That? April 30, 2013 by Super User Pretty much anyone I talk to, who would know, says the digital menu board market is booming. Fast food and fast casual restaurant operators “get” the business proposition that the collective platform pay for itself in efficiency and flexibility and sales promotion lifts. Companies like McDonald’s, Burger King and Tim Horton’s haven’t invested millions in …
Health Screening Kiosk Network Rolls With BroadSign April 30, 2013 by Super User Health solutions provider Stayhealthy has completed the initial deployment of some 2,000 self-service, health screening kiosks in pharmacies across the U.S., using BroadSign as the content management platform. The Los Angeles-area company’s plug-and-play kiosks are FDA-cleared and let consumers measure key health indicators including blood pressure, heart rate, total body weight, total body composition, BMI and color …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At Stinova’s iChannel April 26, 2013 by Super User We’re now at 10 entries, and counting, in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like …
LocaModa Founder Records Crowdsourced Song For Boston April 26, 2013 by Super User The digital signage and digital OOH community knows Stephen Randall as the acerbic founder of social media content integration company Locamoda, which is based in Boston. Not as many know he’s also a musician and has been for years, even working as a professional songwriter earlier in his career. So when the bombs went off …
Projects: Boise State Hangs Giant NanoLumens Panel In Arts Center April 25, 2013 by Super User The Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University a very big digital display in its lobby to communicate with people before, during and after shows, and settled on a six-feet-tall by eleven-feet-wide NanoLumens 4mm LED skinny and light enough to hand on the wall like a tapestry. The NanoSlim display’s …
Video: Virtually Driving With Leap Motion And Street View April 25, 2013 by Super User My enthusiasm for most gesture stuff is really limited, but the notable exception is with the Leap Motion technology that has now been with developers for several months and will shortly be available on the consumer market. People should be able to buy the little gesture-sensing sticks in late May (make that July), for $80, …
