Chicago Startup Gets $2.3M To Take On Big Outdoor Ad Guys With Digital Street Kiosks May 30, 2012 by Super User A Chicago start-up is trying to take on the big outdoor boys in the digital street furniture business, and now has a little working capital to get units on the street. smartDIGITAL, a startup that makes interactive ad displays, has completed a $2.7 million Series A round of funding, reports TechCrunch. smartDIGITAL displays are already …
NEC’s Richer Promoted To CEO May 30, 2012 by Super User Pierre Richer has been promoted from President and COO to President and Chief Executive Officer for NEC Display Solutions of America. Richer will continue to run the commercial LCD and projector businesses for the company, as well as guide the development of the VUKUNET advertising system he launched and fosters. “Pierre has continuously achieved company …
Belgian Travel Agency Makes The World Its Video Wall May 30, 2012 by Super User Hat tip to OOH-TV for spotting this the other day … Video walls seem to be an area of genuine growth in this sector, owing a lot to thinning seams and also to lowered costs. But apart from some interesting stuff done at trade shows, how often have you seen a deployed video wall (setting MicroTiles …
Kinect Tweaked To Turn Any Surface Into Touchscreen May 28, 2012 by Super User The UK version of Wired has a piece up about a German startup that is using Kinect to turn any surface into a touchscreen – and by that I mean surfaces like walls and whiteboards. Munich-based Ubi Interactive uses the motion-tracking and depth-perception cameras in the Kinect to detect where a person is pointing, swiping and …
CODACAN Media Summit, ADlympics Wrap-up May 25, 2012 by Super User I missed the Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association’s Digital OOH media summit last week in Toronto, as well as the fun sports/agency awareness thing that ran right after it. Tight project deadline and a LONG drive the next morning to just short of Iowa. Son. Grad. Anyway, I got a note from a friend who said the …
UK NFC Trial Shows 78% Positive Impact May 25, 2012 by Super User I was blabbing away with a client just yesterday about the application of NFC and OOH, so it was interesting to see results move about a fairly substantive use of it in the UK this spring. JCDecaux and Kinetic launched in March of this year a large trial of NFC-enabled 6-sheet (the size) print posters …
Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Talking Flat Lady; Has Better Idea (video) May 24, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”geGviB-XYhc” width=”600″ height=”350″] Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and his crew were equally unimpressed by the good Talking Flat Lady things being rolled out at NYC airports. He didn’t buy into the sexy time talk by the host, and suggests a better idea for a more typical New York welcome.
Talking Flat Lady Now Being Ignored By Travelers At Major NYC Airports May 23, 2012 by Super User A hat tip to the sales guys who managed to get the New York Port Authority to drop $180K on those eternally stupid Talking Flat Lady things for use at the city’s three main airports. ABC News says the devices were unveiled this week at Newark Liberty and La Guardia airports, and JFK will also have the …
Via Enters Really-Low-Cost PC Race With $49 Gadget May 22, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”2dNA3yHEl2s” width=”600″ height=”350″] Taiwanese electronics company Via, which has been around for years nipping just a bit at the heels of Intel and AMD, is releasing a new mini-PC (through a sub-brand called APC) that has a single unit cost of $49 USD and can push out 720P HD video. Reports The Verge: We’ve …
New Gesture Tech Leaps Way Beyond Kinect May 22, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”zMvbJkzhJrs” width=”600″ height=”350″] A start-up called Leap Motion has started showing technology, ready for the consumer marketplace by year’s end, that gives gesture the fine controls that really haven’t been evident with Kinect. It’s a level of control that might, repeat might, make gesture make more sense in some digital signage applications. Leap is …
