Why? January 24, 2013 by Super User I have seen this thing a few times now looming above the doors for the shuttle cars that move people around Denver’s airport. Too high. Showing the same mountain adventure stuff over and over. Great airport (except for it being located just outside Minneapolis – my God it’s way out of ton), but these screens …
More Digital Signage Served With Raspberry Pi January 24, 2013 by Super User Mr. Google Alerts popped up an item on the open source community GitHub about something called the SAPO Digital Signage Client, which started as a one-off project but has got more energy behind it now as a signage solution using the ultra-low cost Raspberry Pi devices. This code, says the post, was developed internally at …
Arsenal’s Fountain Of Content Turning Back On For DSE 2013 January 24, 2013 by Super User The Fountain of Content from ARSENAL MEDIA_DEMO ZONE on Vimeo. My friends at Arsenal Media in Montreal are going to build their Fountain Of Content again, this time for Digital Signage Expo 2013 next month in Las Vegas. The creative shop put together the crazy multi-screen content tower for Infocomm last June, earning raves from …
Preset Group DSE Mixer Tickets Go Up Thursday AM January 24, 2013 by Super User It’s at the Hard Rock Cafe on the strip. We have slots for 300 or so. You can get the details on the Preset site (we might as well let you know what Preset is all about). Tickets are available starting at 9 AM EDT. They tend to go within 24 hours so we’d advise …
Ambient Content Takes A Walk January 22, 2013 by Super User A restaurant called Joey’s in downtown Vancouver has a big 2 by 2 video wall running over the reception desk, with content that was interesting and a little perplexing. One piece was just a slightly moving aerial shot of the city’s gorgeous downtown. The other was a hipster animation thing very vaguely reminiscent of the …
IAdea Releasing Seven New Digital Signage Devices January 22, 2013 by Super User IAdea has added to its list of appliances tuned to the needs of digital signage projects, with seven new devices that bake in emerging capabilities like HTML5. The Taiwanese company (a Sixteen:Nine sponsor) has released the new devices to sync up with appearances at Integrated Systems Europe at the end of the month and Digital …
Projects: BC Ferries’ Long, Wide Video Wall January 22, 2013 by Super User What I assume is a flagship retail ticketing location for BC Ferries at the foot of Burrard Street in Vancouver has a big, very nice video wall system running for customers and passing tourists to see. The ticket centre is across from the convention centre and cruise ship terminal and at the epicentre of local …
These Digital Screens Are Just Trash January 22, 2013 by Super User Walking through a food court a downtown Vancouver office complex, looking for a critical first coffee of the day, I came across a set of back to back digital screens – one of several sets in the place. All they do, unless things change later in the day, is tell people how to use …
Dish-Spinner Needed January 20, 2013 by Super User Mr. Google Alerts scrubbed the intertubes and found this job search post for some poor soul who gets to do just about everything, it seems, on a digital signage network except accounting. Digital Signage Designer PRIMARY FUNCTION: Provide daily oversight and execution of digital signage initiatives. The function of this position will range in scope …
Video: The Future Is Swiping January 18, 2013 by Super User Here’s a video that suggests how gesture technology will be a part of everyday life as the sensing technology gets more granular. It’s a wee bit cloying as a cute couple goes from lust at first sight to marriage proposal (sorry, spoiled it for you), but is effective in showing what could/can be done. Still …
