Projects: Twisting LED Sculpture Makes Waves In Houston Skyscraper January 7, 2016 by Super User Just stumbled across this now three-year-old project in a Houston, Texas office tower. The owners of 2 Houston Center wanted to spruce up the lobby of the 1970s skyscraper, so they commissioned Spanish multimedia artist Daniel Canogar to create what turned into “Waves” – a giant, suspended motion media sculpture made using more than 600 …
Intel Releases Faster, Better V2 Compute Sticks January 7, 2016 by Super User Intel is chatting up a new, faster Compute Stick at CES this week, the new units replacing slower versions announced last year. The next generation of the PCs on a stick are billed as being twice as fast as the first versions, with more USB ports and better WiFi. There’s an entry-level version for $159 …
Worth Watching: Select Videos Up From Four Winds’ Forward Conference January 6, 2016 by Super User Four Winds Interactive did a very nice, polished job last fall with Forward, a two-day conference in hometown Denver that went well beyond the typical software company user conference. It was education instead of indoctrination. I went to it, and learned a lot more than what was on the company’s product roadmap. The marketing department put …
Here’s A Look At LG’s Two-Sided OLED Panel January 6, 2016 by Super User Via Engadget … Here is that two-sided OLED panel that LG said it would be showing at CES this week, courtesy of an Engadget writer and his smartphone video camera. It was posted via the gadget blog’s Instagram account. It’s pretty wild to see something that skinny pushing out deep, rich video back to back. …
Zotac PC Stick Ups Power Over Intel’s Compute Stick January 4, 2016 by Super User Teeny PC maker Zotac has announced a PC on a stick to compete with Intel’s own Compute Stick, and arguably other devices like the Asus Chromebit and countless Android-ARM HDMI sticks. The Zotac PC Stick’s main difference from the Intel gadget released last year is its Intel Atom z5-Z8300 Cherry Trail processor, as opposed to the …
Acer Unveils 24-inch Chromebase With 10-Point Touch January 4, 2016 by Super User Acer has added a 24-inch version of its Chromebase all-in-one desktop ChromeOS boxes, with a 10-point multi-touch option that would make it suitable as a retail or public spaces touchscreen or kiosk. Acer released a 21.5-inch version last year. The Acer Chromebase 24 (CA24I) has the largest screen of all Chrome OS devices on the market …
Five HTML5 Options For Building Digital Signage Creative January 4, 2016 by Curtis Tilly For two decades, Adobe Flash was the Holy Grail for designers creating motion graphics for the web and digital signage. Recently, however, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) made HTML5 the new industry standard for digital creative. Unlike Flash, HTML5 provides a universal tool to create content that, because the rendering is done by the browser, …
LG Showing Rollable and Two-Sided OLED Displays At CES January 4, 2016 by Super User CES is not in my trade show plans this or most years. The show this week is way too big and busy for my tastes – and the great majority of what’s going to be shown and hyped there isn’t all that relevant to signage. There will be display tech and micro PCs, but there will …
Rollout Starts For LinkNYC Info-stations & Hotspots December 30, 2015 by Super User So how many techs does it take to plant a ruggedized touchscreen on a New York sidewalk? Many many, by the looks of it. The group behind those LinkNYC information stations/free WiFi hotspots/ad totems slated for NYC’s boroughs started installing the first ones this week, and photos have been posted by Civiq Smartscapes, and also …
Here Are The Top Five 16:9 Digital Signage Stories Of 2015 December 29, 2015 by Super User This has been a record year for site traffic, and not all that surprisingly the biggest month for visits and page views coincided with Digital Signage Expo – a period when there are a lot of of announcements and things to cover. Looking at site stats, it’s clear that many people find their way to …
