Conductive Ink Turns Pizza Hut Box Into Interactive DJ Station August 17, 2016 by Super User Via TechCrunch I’m a big proponent of mixing mediums, like using print to frame and make digital displays much bigger. And I like tech that turns a medium upside – like the conductive ink developed by UK startup Novalia. The company uses paper thin printed membranes as the touch overlay and microcontrollers as the smarts. …
EventBoard Raises $13.5 M To Build Up Digital Meeting Room Sign Business August 17, 2016 by Super User I’ve written often about the seemingly pedestrian but dead-perfect application of digital meeting room signs, and how the marketplace seems to be all over the things. Exhibit A – Sixteen:Nine’s companion site – MeetingRoomSigns.biz – now has more than 40 products listed, which is at least 5X of a year ago. The site generates 1,000s …
6 Benefits Of Cloud-Based Digital Signage August 17, 2016 by Sean Levy Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit When a company goes down the path of planning, building and launching a digital signage solution, the people behind it are going to hit a big fork in the road, making them decide what kind of software platform to use: on-premise or cloud-based. For some organizations, often very large ones, …
Four Winds Previews Next Month’s Forward Conference In Denver August 17, 2016 by Super User Four Winds Interactive is holding what will be its second, now annual educational conference next month in Denver, and has released the agenda and overall plans for the Sept. 21-23 event. I went last year and thought, for a first stab at it, the event was quite good and useful both in terms of the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jeff Hastings, BrightSign August 17, 2016 by Super User If you’re looking for concrete evidence that the digital signage business is now doing some serious volume, consider the word on this latest Sixteen:Nine podcast from Jeff Hastings, the CEO of BrightSign. His shipping department is packing and moving roughly 1,000 units a day. Let me repeat that … a day. BrightSign designs, builds and …
Apple Lights Up 6K LED Wall Today At New 1 WTC Store August 16, 2016 by Super User Via TechCrunch … Apple has opened a large store in New York’s new One World Trade Center retail space, and like other recent stores opened by the tech giant, this one features a large direct view LED wall. The store just opened at noon, and there is a big 6K rez wall in one section …
Enter The AV Nerd Nonagon On 9/9 August 16, 2016 by Super User This looks and reads like a hardcore pro AV nerdfest – a networking and education event next month in Anaheim with the call to action of traveling to the 9th dimension at the NitWit Nonagon. Ummm … OK??? I asked, and organizer Randy Pagnan of RP Visuals explained that Nit references a common measure of …
STRATACACHE: CEO Riegel Says Scala Deal Not The Last August 16, 2016 by Super User Chris Riegel, the founder, sole owner and CEO of STRATACACHE, kindly took a few minutes Monday to call and brief me on the deal that saw his company acquire controlling interest in software rival Scala. Riegel says his contact with Scala on a potential deal traces back about three years, and was on and off. …
Is The Live TV On Your Digital Signs On Right Side Of Copy Protection Laws? August 15, 2016 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Is your digital signage network on the right side of copy protection laws? HDCP is a digital copy protection technology that is used widely by content providers. Subscription-based live video feeds received with set-top boxes are often encoded with and protected by HDCP, the acronym for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. Playing such content …
STRATACACHE Buys Majority Control of CMS Software Rival Scala August 15, 2016 by Super User STRATACACHE has bought its way into “super-majority” control of digital signage CMS software rival Scala, in a deal being announced today. The deal gets STRATACACHE CEO and sole owner Chris Riegel access to a global channel partner program and reseller network, which Philly-based Scala had built up in the last 15-20 years. The deal is not …
