10 Questions To Ask When Buying Digital Signage Software December 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix So, your organization is considering a digital signage system, and you’ve been tasked with gathering info. Where to start? It’s a massive market and getting bigger all the time. Just typing in the term “digital signage” into Google results in 14 million results, and there are an awful lot of …
Shuttle Debuts Pair Of Sub-$170 4K Android Digital Signage Players December 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes The small PC computer maker Shuttle has announced a nice little pair of sub-$170 ARM-based media players aimed at the digital signage market – 4K-capable and one with built-in Power over Ethernet support. The set top box-sized units are fanless and ship with Android 5.1 installed. they also come with Shuttle’s own software, DS Creator 2.0. …
NanoLumens Ready To Assert Patents, Go After Makers Of “Cheap Imitations” December 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes When I had a long podcast chat with Rick Cope at InfoComm back in June, the founder and CEO of Nanolumens made it very clear he was about to go to legal war with a number of (mostly or all) Chinese manufacturers who were marketing LED display products that seem to borrow on Nano’s flexible …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Daniel Siden, Lightvert December 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week’s podcast is a little tough, because I’m going to ask listeners to get their brains around something they really need to see. And something that’s just emerging from R&D, so you can’t see it. But, it’s more than worth listening to Daniel Siden talk about Lightvert, a UK-based start-up that has technology that …
Forget Self-Checkout – Amazon Opens Checkout-Free Store In Seattle December 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Amazon has opened what amounts to a neighborhood grocery near its Seattle headquarters that totally eliminates checkouts and cash registers, allowing people to walk in, grab what they want, and leave – the purchases all tracked through shopper smartphones and the cloud. The 1,800 sq. ft.Amazon Go store is now open as a test for …
Ebay Creates Big Digital Experiences For New Silicon Valley Campus Welcome Center December 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes A new central building on the Silicon Valley campus of ecommerce giant eBay, called Main Street, serves as the main gateway and front door for the company. It’s a technology-rich building intended to drive brand identity, capture the rapid pulse of the company and more practically provide much-needed flexible, well-equipped spaces for hosted meetings, conferences, and events. The company …
Sharp Debuts Low-Cost Pro-Grade LCD Series December 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes Sharp has debuted a new value-priced but pro-grade series of small to mid-sized displays aimed at the digital signage market. The PN-Y series is available from 32-inches and up to 55. The PN-Ys are touted as an economical alternative to the PN-R series that was announced a few weeks ago, and are about 30 percent less cost than the units …
New Taipei’s Christmasland Is Massively Projection-Mapped December 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes They are into Christmas in a BIG way in New Taipei, judging by the massive projection mapping and lighting spectacle staged for the holiday season in the Taiwan city. Put together by Singapore-based Hexogon Solution, there are 42 Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors driving a series of big visuals on the side of the 30-storey city hall and …
NBA Fan Zone Virtual Bobble Heads Find Their Way To OKC Highway Billboard December 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes The interactive touchscreen thing at sports venues is not new, but there’s a few things Philly-based MVP Interactive did with Cox Communications and the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder that are kinda cool: Fans make their personal, albeit virtual bobbleheads; A sensor called the vert jump mat measured how high fans can jump (vertical leap is kind of important …
Convergent Wins Solutions Provider Deal For Nascent, US-Wide Digital OOH Network November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes A reworked Convergent is starting to get some traction with its premise of being a Digital Signage as a Service (DSaaS) provider, announcing a deal today to provide the software and services behind something called the ReachMeTV Entertainment Network. The Atlanta-based solutions provider, which has undergone some big management shuffles and ownership changes in recent years, is …
