Pivoting, Interactive Digital Street Signs Now For Sale In Europe January 18, 2017 by Super User I saw this thing in Amsterdam at ISE 2016, and the French company couldn’t give me much in the way of detail on how much or where it would be available – other than North American NOT being a planned marketplace. A year on, France’s Charvet Digital Media appears to have refined its digital street …
Sidewalk Campaign Uses Digital Displays, Sensors To Shame Swedish Smokers January 18, 2017 by Super User A Swedish pharmacy chain, Apotek Hjärtat, is running a digital OOH campaign in that country that uses sensors and triggered content to needle and shame passing cigarette smokers. When someone on the street walks near the digital poster, cigarette lit, a smoke sensor picks that up and triggers a video file on the display’s player that …
NRF2017 Impressions: Lotsa Actionable Analytics January 17, 2017 by Super User NRF is not a digital signage show. There are lots of signage vendors at the show – with booths or just walking around. It’s a retail tech show full of stuff that will be largely unfamiliar if you live and work in the digital signage bubble. But it’s a valuable show to walk if retail …
Planar The Latest Displayco To Add “Smart” Displays January 17, 2017 by Super User Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started marketing a 4K pro display series that includes an embedded, networked Android media player capable of driving 4K resolutions and ready for h.265 video and HTML5. It looks, however, like the only way to manage these displays is via Planar’s own ContentSmart management software – which at a quick glance …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: NRF Special Edition With RDM, Unefi, Show Impressions January 17, 2017 by Super User This is a special edition of the 16:9 Podcast – special because the format’s a little different and because I’m turning this around too quickly to get it polished up by the guy who sound engineers these things. So no music. Maybe a bit more background noise. The levels are anything but level. But it’ll …
AOPEN Now has Sub-$200 Commercial Grade Chromebox; $350 Chromebase Tablet January 17, 2017 by Super User Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. You could imagine it being used …
Getting Set For NRF 2017 January 13, 2017 by Super User The National Retail Federation’s big annual trade show starts up on Sunday in New York, and I was very happy to learn it should be mid 40sF and sunny when I get in. I have been at that show other Januarys when the winter wind coming off the Hudson chilled anyone to the bone. NRF …
6 Ways To Get People Looking At Your Digital Signs. January 13, 2017 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix You’ve spent untold resources – both time and money – getting your digital signage system up and running. But is it working? Do people look at your screens? One way to tell is with good ROI measurements in place. But there are a few surefire ways to attract and engage …
Legal Marijuana Boom An Opportunity For Digital Signage Firm, But Won’t Be Easy January 12, 2017 by Super User A few digital signage companies I know have been taking a look at the rapidly rising number of U.S. states that are now allowing the open sale of recreational and/or medical marijuana, and thinking this was a still early stage business vertical they could tap into. These shops and dispensaries have a lot of varied …
Reflect Hires Major Client As New CEO January 10, 2017 by Super User In an interesting, slightly odd twist, Dallas-based solutions provider/softwareco Reflect has appointed the guy at the center of one of the company’s higher profile projects as its new CEO. Lee Summers started with Reflect last month, having come over from Nebraska Furniture Mart, where he was Manager for Marketing/Technology and responsible for choosing Reflect’s in-store digital media …
