Measuring audiences with gadgets July 3, 2007 by Dave HaynesAfter a slightly noxious foray into advertorial (the president of a company that uses Windows and sponsors the site examining the merits of Windows versus Linux — guess which OS won!!!), AKA seems to have its legs under it again and is pushing out some good, unbiased stuff. There’s a piece just up about measurement technology, …
See-through LCD an alternative to window projection? June 29, 2007 by Dave Haynes The New Launches blog has a post up about a Japanese company, called Active Inc., with a new type of LCD that has transparent properties. It uses liquid crystal optical film instead of backlights to drive the image, allowing for something akin to a stained glass effect. Where this could get interesting is as competition …
Data on retail dwell times June 29, 2007 by Dave HaynesI came across research this morning from the Mystery Shopping Providers Association, a trade organization for all those companies that send people into stores looking at things like pricing and service quality. The group has done a survey that breaks down wait times at cash in several categories, across the major cities in the U.S. …
A screen in a newspaper box? Hmmm… June 23, 2007 by Dave HaynesMy irrational fear of electrocuting myself, coupled with my limited IQ, has kept me from joining the community of propeller-heads who like to stick computers and screens into weird places. The gadget blog Gizmodo shows them the odd time, and today there was one on there that saw a guy stick a flat panel and a …
Experiential media at InfoComm June 22, 2007 by Dave Haynes I ran into Shaun and Vita from Vancouver’s 2C Visual Communications as my stint at InfoComm was winding down. The couple has been in the digital signage space for several years, making a go of it in a market that still seems fairly sleepy compared to the rest of the continent. They were demo’ing a …
Window-shopping, and buying June 22, 2007 by Dave Haynes If you are walking along one of the tonier blocks in London in the next few weeks you will be able to stop in front of the flagship Ralph Lauren store and do some serious window shopping – using a projected 78-inch touch screen applied to shop glass. USA Today is reporting how the store …
Finally … a company that makes screen covers June 21, 2007 by Dave Haynes I am sitting in LAX waiting for my flight. Bad news is I have a middle seat. The good news is I have a seat. They’re bumping people. The other good news is the ever-hapless folks at Northwest Airlines (I’m not flying them) have not locked down their wireless, so I am sitting out with …
InfoComm Report June 21, 2007 by Dave Haynes So as planned, I spent much of the day hoofing around the Anaheim Convention Center, checking out InfoComm 2007. For the unitiated, this show is aimed at the sytems integrator world and attracts throngs of people from companies who stick screens, speakers, cable, video conferencing systems, custom lighting and on and on into offices and …
Mixer location set June 4, 2007 by Dave HaynesAfter some important research on Friday, involving Harp, I determined a suitable location for the mixer on Thursday. A place called Grace O’Malley’s — which is about as authentically Irish as a Burger King — at 14 Duncan Street, just north of King in the theatre district. Good central location and they have the aforementioned …
LA Times has a look at this biz May 31, 2007 by Dave HaynesThe LA Times has had a run at the digital signage industry, talking to the usual suspects and referencing the usual stats about the expected growth of the business and so on. If you’re in this space already, there’s not much to learn. But the piece, from the Sunday paper, is not a bad primer …
