A VERY Different Take On Digital Signage Wayfinding July 30, 2012 by Super User DISFORM 2012 – BAR sign in action from Dani Wolf on Vimeo. Tweets like this tend to catch the eye … https://twitter.com/Pufferfish_Ltd/statuses/229961140694818816 Pufferfish is a Scottish firm that does spherical displays, and has someone who apparently doesn’t think much of the wayfinding work in digital signage at the moment. So I went and had a …
Jobs: Business Development Director at Capital Networks July 30, 2012 by Super User Digital signage and broadcast software company Capital Networks Limited, based in suburban Toronto, is looking for a Director of Business Development. Here’s the job post: About Capital Networks Ltd. Since 1991 we’ve supplied creation and content management software and support services to the demanding Broadcasting and Cable Television industries, specializing in local news and automated …
Roundup: As Expected, Lots Of Raspberry Pi In The Digital Signage Oven July 27, 2012 by Super User The little Raspberry Pi project that is trying to push out a useful computing for $35 has, as expected, attracted attention and activity from the digital signage sector – which is steadily pushed on lowering costs and minimizing footprints. There is now a wiki running on eLinux.org tracking some of the open source and commercial …
3D Display Firms Sign LOI For Acquisition July 26, 2012 by Super User The consolidation and shakeout on the software side of this sector is also happening on the niche display side. A glasses-free 3D display firm is in the process of acquiring another firm doing the same thing, albeit in different ways. Tulsa-based 3DIcon Corporation, which does volumetric, three-dimensional display technologies, has reached a letter of intent …
He’s Five July 26, 2012 by Super User Happy 5th birthday to Adrian and the team at DailyDOOH, which I am told is a blog that also provides some coverage and insight about the digital signage sector. Must have a look sometime. ;-] photo credit: neonzu1 via photo pin cc
Transparent LCDs Go Interactive In Clever Test Project July 26, 2012 by Super User (First spotted in Endadget) The interactive team at Second Story has done some brilliant work with digital displays, most notably the digital towers at the University of Oregon and an interactive wall at the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta. Back in the lab in Portland, they have started putzing around with transparent LCDs and other technology, …
Colombia’s Biggest Digital OOH Player Goes With BroadSign July 24, 2012 by Super User BroadSign has bagged the deal to provide the management and ad targeting platform for Colombia’s biggest digital signage network operator, Enmedio Comunicacion Digital. Enmedio Advertising Networks has screens in more than 830 high-traffic venues across the country, while a corporate business unit has 150 screens running for high-profile companies such as Citibank, Dupont and Coca-Cola. …
LG Gets EzSign TV On Shelves At Fry’s, But Will It Sell? July 24, 2012 by Super User LG is taking a crack at trying to sell a bundled solution out of retail, aimed presumably at the small business crowd that doesn’t know much beyond the basic “want” of a screen running stuff in their venues. The question is whether that crowd – which will tend to be driven by price and oblivious …
Brit Design Students Make Subway Car Ceilings Into Location-Aware Displays July 24, 2012 by Super User PSFK has a post up about British design students who have developed a concept that turns the ceilings of subway cars into location-aware digital displays. Writes PSFK: British design students have created a digital display system for train cars to give riders a view of the outside world they’re passing. The ‘Canopy’ concept uses flexible …
Stratacache Opens Digital Menu Board Experience Center July 24, 2012 by Super User Probably the hottest vertical in the digital signage sector – and for a while now – is digital menu boards. Piles and piles of quick service restaurant operators are cutting over because of operating cost and hassle reductions, and the reliably positive impacts on sales and order sizes. The software company Stratacache has probably won …
