Costa Rica Solutions Provider Pivots To Own Sanitizer-Display Hybrids To Stay Open May 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes Costa Rican digital signage solutions company IdeaMedia was looking, like a lot of companies, at a bumpy future brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak, so like a lot of small companies thrown into an unplanned lockdown, it pivoted. “We are trying to not only to remain alive, but also try to financially survive this …
New Digital Signage Power Hour Set For May 19th; Focus On Access Controls For New Consumer Norms May 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes The lineup is now set for the second Digital Signage Power Hour webinar, slated for May 19th. Following up on a well-received, fun event that explored the arguments around touchscreens in the age of COVID-19, this one will also be timely – discussing the seeming explosion in display products designed to manage access into retail. …
Positive Hints In AVIXA’s Latest Weekly Pro AV COVID-19 Industry Impact Survey May 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes The latest weekly COVID-19 industry impact survey done by the AV trade association AVIXA suggests that while things are anything but rosy, they aren’t just steadily spiraling down. The latest survey of AV pros and end-user suggests: The share of respondents saying they experienced no impact in the last week rose significantly. Of those professionals, …
Palmer Digital Group Develops Larger, Custom Temperature-Reading Display Stations May 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Numerous vendors have in recent weeks been sending me news of their company’s addition of COVID-19 access control products, and almost all of them have looked like subtle variations on a standard design – a tablet-sized display/camera combo from China that sits on a pole, attaches to a wall or sits on a counter. The …
Projection-Mapping Transform Historic LA Park For Live Event May 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a live event using projection mapping, but the techniques and technologies used could certainly apply to more permanent digital signage installations. Projection Designer Hana Kim uses Panasonic laser projectors and projection mapping technology to create visuals for SWEET LAND, an outdoor opera set inside Los Angeles State Historic Park. The production blended the …
Intuiface Gets ISO Audit To Confirm Customer Data Is Locked-Down Secure April 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes The French interactive software firm Intuiface now has a shiny new certificate on its office walls saying it is ISO certified. This at first glance gets about a 2 rating on an Exciting News-O-Meter, but it is interesting because the rationale of going through a lengthy, expensive and documentation-laden audit exercise ties to locking down …
Beabloo Launches Interaction Care Solution Designed To Address New Retail Norms April 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes Numerous companies have been announcing new products – like access control and thermal sensing displays – to help run businesses in the midst of COVID-19, but Barcelona-based retail tech firm Beabloo has gone several steps further by launching a full solution designed to address a variety of needs for what may be a new norm …
Cenareo Develops Free Chrome Extensions That Launch Health Safety Messaging In New Tabs April 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes The French CMS software firm Cenareo (formerly known as CityMeo) has developed a free Chrome browser extension designed to push educational reminders about Covid-19 issues. The idea is that when a user opens a new tab in the heavily-used browser, it starts with a splash page with up-to-date health information. The content includes: …
How A Worldwide Pandemic Re-Shapes Digital Signage Trends April 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Aferdita Qesku, Signagelive As 2019 closed, I wrote a post that was a forecast of Top 3 2020 digital signage trends, for Invidis Consulting. Little did I (or any of us, really) know how things would go on to be impacted so widely for the remainder of this year. On face value, surely …
Germany’s xplace Markets Smart Entrance Kit For Retail April 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the things discussed at length in the latest 16:9 Podcast, released overnight, is the use of displays, sensors and software to control foot traffic into stores and other businesses. The heads of the German consultancy invidis relate how these digital A-Frame displays are being used as a measure to limit access and meet …
