Spectacular projection-map job in Prague October 14, 2010 by raveRe-posted from rAVe This is simply amazing to watch. To celebrate the clock-tower’s 600-year old history, the town of Prague used the actual astrological tower clock at the Old Town Square to project history (THE history of the clock) right there on the face of the tower. Using two 18K projectors seamed together (resolution of …
Putting the farm into digital signage content production October 13, 2010 by Super UserA couple of recent presentations I’ve done talked a little about cloud computing, and I used content rendering farms as a good example of using web-based services to get work done without investing in infrastructure. With one exception, no one I was in front of had ever heard of rendering farms. And I really hadn’t …
Flypaper's digital signage content creation suite adds interactive tools October 6, 2010 by Super UserOne of the companies I made a point seeing at Digital Signage Expo earlier this year was Phoenix-based Flypaper Studio, which has a Flash and motion graphics creation tool that it was just starting to angle into this sector. I’d been watching the company for a while, but this was the first sign of the guys …
HTML 5 ain't ready just yet October 6, 2010 by Super UserA lot of people who’d like to shift away from Flash as a playback engine for digital signage – worried about vague licensing issues and playback stability – have been getting excited about the prospects for HTML 5 to mature and take the place of Flash. You can already find HTML 5 video players ion …
So is it free or not??? October 6, 2010 by Super UserSee if you can figure out this email marketing pitch without going cross-eyed … Professional FREE Digital Signage for everyone! — Well, well … that’s a good price It’s Digital Signage, but smarter more flexible and FREE for all — Yeah, you just said that MediaSignage had changed Digital Signage forever! And not just because …
C-Store 101 paper from NRF offers pile of insights October 5, 2010 by Super UserSomehow or other I stumbled across a paper from the National Retail Federation on the convenience store business that looks into trends and operating challenges. It makes absolutely no mention of digital display technology and only passing references to in-store marketing, but for all the software and DOOH companies that sell into or build out …
Interactive projection/kiosk promos new Nissan Leaf September 28, 2010 by Super UserThe guys at Spyeglass in Minneapolis sent along a release with pix and video of a project that uses their projection film and interactive touch foil. Through the reseller, RTT, USA Inc., and a pile of other companies doing different but related stuff, the projection film was part of a roving promo program for Nissan’s …
Samsung shows off its smart TV widgets (from rAVe) September 27, 2010 by Super UserFrom Sixteen:Nine’s content partner rAVe [Publications], a shaky (but stick with it as it settles out) video demo-ing Samsung’s Smart TV gadgets and general capabilities at last week’s CEDIA show. The webinar I did last week discussed widgets and gadgets and how they can start to make an IPTV loook more and more like a …
The screen-smartphone connection, sans QR codes? September 27, 2010 by Super UserThis is a French company, Wizup, that has developed technology that operates a little like apps that listen for, recognize and identify music, but more broadly based. The video shows how a smartphone could recognize video or something on a poster and deliver extended information down to the phone. In theory, this would work well …
NanoLumens screens named among top tech innovations September 27, 2010 by Super UserCongratulations to the guys down in Atlanta behind NanoLumens, who were cited today as a runner-up in the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards. Given the other runners-up were Nokia and Ford Motor Co., that’s a fairly impressive accomplishment. The winner in the category was a Taiwanese company that does paper-thin displays. NanoLumens, if you …
