Minority Report Gestures A Terrible Idea, Says Top Industrial Designer October 2, 2012 by Super User The Verge has a good Q&A up with the Chief Creative Officer for the industrial design firm Frog, and one of the questions he fields is about gesture-based controls of big screens, as in the film Minority Report. Lots and lots of people talk about that being the future of computing controls, while lots of …
Guest Post: Exploring CMS Workflow – Presided by Royal Bloodlines October 2, 2012 by Michael Arnett We often hear about content being king, and either context, communication or collaboration being queen, depending on whom you ask. Those ceremonial drums continue to beat mercilessly, and for good viewing reason. Behind the screen, however, whether relevant, beautifully collaborated content radiates throughout the royal castle, there still neeDS to be some kind of mechanism …
Taplister Markets Digital Beer Menu Board October 2, 2012 by Super User I was sitting in a bar last week – I know, shocking – squinting at a chalkboard’s hand-scrawled listings (below) of the local brews they had on tap and trying to guess at what they were and what, therefore, I wanted. It never occurred to me that a digital beer menu board would do a …
DSF Pushing Standards For Higher Ed, And I Have No Idea Why October 1, 2012 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation’s Education and Standards Committees, which has academics and industry people on it, has established a set of standards to guide universities, colleges, and specialty schools on how to “develop or incorporate digital signage into their curricula.” There are courses and curricula in many universities, community colleges, and technical schools that already incorporate elements …
Project Profiles: JC Decaux Tries Streetside Transparent LCDs Down Under October 1, 2012 by Super User We’ve seen lots of transparent LCD displays on trade show floors, but I’m not sure how widely deployed the technology is out in teh real world. So it was interesting to come across a limited trial of the technology in Australia, for a Nike campaign. JC Decaux’s Innovate wing helped launch the Nike LunarGlide 4 shoe …
PRN Re-brands As IZON, As In Eyes On October 1, 2012 by Super User Premier Retail Networks (aka PRN) has re-branded/re-launched itself as IZON Media, as in “eyes-on” media, and positioned this new entity as being a lot more than just Digital OOH. The change, says a release, reflects the company’s dedication to integrate mobile, social and other technologies with its content strategies and vast network of strategically located …
Remember Me? October 1, 2012 by Super User Remember me? Sorry for the lack of posts. Preset is forehead-deep in the middle of an RFP and the past week was up early and fall on the bed late each night. No time for stuff like blogging. Can’t really say what I am up to, but I was part of a pitch team that …
Where’d He Go September 27, 2012 by Super User On road. Long, long days and important evening followups with clients. Hic. Not sure how much I will post this week, but likely little to none. Back to normal – whatever that is – next week. photo credit: SriHarsha PVSS via photopin cc
Crazy New Take On LED Boards Switches On In Brooklyn September 24, 2012 by Super User The Barclays Center sports venue opens in Brooklyn later this week – a new home for the relocated NBA Nets and piles of concerts. The building itself looks very different than most big arenas rising these days, and seems more in line with the new generation of soccer stadiums opening in different countries. One of …
Project Profile: FishNet’s Captures Guests With Giant Lobby Video Wall September 24, 2012 by Super User It’s become pretty common to walk into an office lobby and see a large monitor looming behind the reception desk, but the information security firm FishNet Security has amped up that idea by multiples. The Overland Park, Kansas firm’s new headquarters has a 10 by 6 wall of MicroTiles in the main lobby to welcome …
