Visionect’s Epaper Digital Door Signs Win Red Dot Industrial Design Award July 7, 2016 by Super User The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. The competition attracted almost 5,200 entries this year, from 57 countries, and a look through the winners has …
Projects: Cafetiero Frames Up Its Digital Menus July 6, 2016 by Super User This is the digital menuboard set-up for a small German cafe chain called CAFETIERO, which is run by the exhibitions and event catering firm The Stockheim Group. The company uses 40-inch displays for menus, and nicely surrounds them in decorative picture frames. The landscape display panels run menu items and portrait screens run promotions. The company is also testing …
16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard July 6, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. Jennifer grabbed us a meeting space on the exhibit floor at InfoComm last month, and we …
Sign Up For July 12 Canonical Webinar On Emerging IoT Tech July 6, 2016 by Super User If you are interested in emerging tech you might want to set aside an hour next Tuesday, July 12, for a webinar I’m running with a couple of interesting UK-based companies. The session, put on by Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu Linux, features Nikodem Lacki, CTO of Boldmind, and Ebrahim Busheri, CEO of Lime SDR. …
The $100 Wintel Digital Signage PC July 5, 2016 by Super User A lot of traffic on this site continues to be generated by readers looking for low-cost digital signage player solutions – as in 100s of page views a day just for a round-up of Raspberry Pi options. I also see a lot of interest in posts involving Chrome devices and PC sticks. So a post …
Miami Fail July 5, 2016 by Super User Spotted by an industry vet connecting through Miami’s airport … The wonky screen in the right has a notification message reminding the screen operator he or she can upgrade to Windows 10! It’s not that hard to disable this stuff, and avoid looking like a doofus.
Mumbai’s VXL Debuts $400 Illumineye Digital Signage Bundle July 5, 2016 by Super User It is endlessly amazing to come across yet more companies introducing digital signage software platforms, when there are already 100s and possibly 1,000s (no, really) out there. At least the latest is not two guys and a dream, but a company with 40 years in thin client software that must have some sense of a market …
5 Tips On Increasing Employee Commitment Using Digital Signage (Part 2) July 5, 2016 by Luis Villafane Guest Post: Richard Fortin, ITESMEDIA Are you engaging your employees during their shifts? In this second of two posts, we will look at three other ways to increase your employees’ commitment in the workplace, using digital signage. Part 1 is here. 3 – Democratize information In order to be committed to your work, you must make …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Two Months And 15,500 Downloads In July 1, 2016 by Super User It’s now been a couple of months since the first episode in the Sixteen:Nine Podcasts series went live, and 11 episodes are now up. The podcast-hosting site shows about 1,400 listens, but that’s a fraction of the real story. The podcasts are up on Google Play and iTunes, and the RSS feed is hooked in …
The Next Wave Of Interactive Sidewalk Kiosks Will Sniff For Leaks And Log Traffic Jams July 1, 2016 by Super User hat tip to @thegreatgadsby for noticing this … The tech publication Recode has a really interesting post up about how those interactive stations that are showing up on big city streets, replacing phone booths, are much more than information hubs with free Wi-Fi supported by digital OOH ads. The product that Google-backed Sidewalk Labs is marketing …
