IAdea Debuts Signboard Kits For Digital Signage June 13, 2012 by Super User You may notice an IAdea banner ad at the top of the page this morning. The company is one of a couple of firms coming on as advertisers this week. I am at InfoComm and stealing some Starbucks wifi before I go to the show, and will have a look at what IAdea has there. …
InfoComm12: DisplaySearch Conference Notes June 12, 2012 by Super User No WiFi, sigh, at the Display Search conference that runs as part of the lead-up to InfoComm here in the blast furnace that is Las Vegas in June. That’s about my only whine, however. Good event. Not clogged with people, but maybe 100 or so and similar to last year. But the speakers were generally …
Sightings: Austrian Sports Retailer Thinks Outside Box For Video Walls June 11, 2012 by Super User We seem to be seeing more and more pro AV people thinking beyond the rectangle these days when it comes to video walls in retail and public spaces. Consider this sports retailer in Austria, which is profiled in a BrightSign news release today: Intersport Eybl, Austria’s foremost retailer of sports equipment and sportswear has chosen …
Fuji Xerox Shows Latest E-Paper Prototype June 8, 2012 by Super User Color e-paper that supports genuine video is still quite a ways off, but there is definitelty some progress being made. Fuji Xerox Co Ltd showed e-paper that produces color without a filter at SID 2012 this week in Boston. Warning – strap on propeller beanies now: The color e-paper (electrophoretic display) developed by Fuji Xerox, …
BBC Explainer On Projection Mapping Buckingham Palace June 8, 2012 by Super User If you like 3D projection mapping – beaming interesting visuals on to surfaces like churches, castles and opera houses – but were wondering how the hell they do it, this BBC piece about the Buckingham Palace job earlier this week is useful. It describes how a small London company, Treatment, turned the palace into social …
Guest Post: Re-Thinking The Digital Signage Approach June 8, 2012 by Michael Arnett Those within digital signage supplier circles know how easy it is to be critical of doomed projects. “Too many stakeholders,” we cry. “Poor implementations,” we roar. “No content strategy,” we howl. “The wrong people doing the wrong things,” we sigh. And so it goes … From the inside looking out, we claim to have the …
Video: Visix Does Preview of New Pots And Pans For InfoComm June 7, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”_Qpl2gLRcWY” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Atlanta-area software company Visix did a nice video ahead of InfoComm last year and they’ve banged out another one this year. I liked the one last year more because it was a little more personal, following President Sean Matthews around the offices to demo things. But the 2012 version is …
And How About $70 For A PC On A Stick? June 7, 2012 by Super User Many of the little PC and tablet gadgets coming out of Taiwan and China can only be found and ordered off websites that look profoundly dodgy, but this $70 Android 4.0 PC on a stick is up and ready to pre-order off Amazon, which I have heard of. Geeky Gadgets and a few other tech …
AMD, Seneca Data Add To The Teeny PC Parade June 7, 2012 by Super User Announcements are coming out all the time about increasingly small PCs – the smallest, of course, being those teeny Raspberry Pi units from the UK. But the flip side of those research lab efforts are major companies producing diminutive but powerful boxes. Engadget has a tech blogger at the big Computex trade show in Taiwan this …
Will 3D Sell More Burgers? June 6, 2012 by Super User We have a client in the QSR industry that does digital menu-boards and had the resources and smarts, early on, to actually ask customers what they thought about it. Without going into it much, at all, the feedback to using digital’s capabilities to animate and promote stuff did not resonate with people. They didn’t to …
