Now Ride-Hailing Cars Have Ad Screens September 14, 2015 by Super User Entrepreneurs have for many years now tried putting screens in taxis as a targeted advertising medium – with results best described as mixed. I think we’ve all slid into a taxi somewhere, got ourselves settled, and then quickly located the mute button so that whatever ad was on the screen would stop jabbering at us. …
Projects: Rockwell Puts Its Merchandising Screens On Rollers September 11, 2015 by Super User Here’s an interesting digital merchandising set-up I bumped into at my local Canadian Tire store – a big dedicated store within a store zone for the power tool maker Rockwell. What caught my eye were screens on both sides that were set up on roller tracks, so that they could be pulled left or right …
Four Winds Firms Up Speakers, Agenda For Next Month’s Forward Conference September 9, 2015 by Super User I checked in with Four Winds Interactive to ask how things are going with plans for the conference the software company is running next month in the company’s hometown city, Denver. Called Forward – the Digital Experience Conference, the event is designed to educate and inspire people who are grappling with the explosion of digital content and tech out there, and how to apply it …
Orange Pi From Shenzhen Undercuts Raspberry Pi Price By Half September 8, 2015 by Super User The busiest post day to day on this blog – by a considerable margin – is one listing the various options to make digital signage projects happen with $35 Raspberry Pi single board computers. So I know there is a substantial constituency out there of people who are determined to cut as much as cost …
LG Showcases Wavy OLED Wall, 1 MM OLED Digital Poster September 4, 2015 by Super User LG Display has started showing off a set of OLED display prototypes that will get people who design retail and corporate interiors thinking about the possibilities. An LG press release suggests its CEO and President, Dr. Sang Beom Han, talked a lot about OLED in his opening keynote speech at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Dr. Han, says …
Ticking All The DSrupted Boxes September 3, 2015 by Super User We’re now LESS than two weeks out from DSrupted 2015 in Toronto, and things are SOMEWHAT in control. Just confirmed catering, paid the AV guys and added a new stack of badges to what’s already been sorted and given attached lanyards. We’ve even got finished badges bundled in 10-packs and hanging up so they don’t …
Projects: New Tech Center Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Columns September 3, 2015 by Super User This is the new Technology Center of Excellence that connectivity and IT services firm CenturyLink has opened in Monroe, Louisiana – with 37,000 square feet of nanotechnology glass that tints automatically and three big NanoLumens wrap-around displays inside. Opened earlier this year, the building alone makes a pretty big statement, but the company wanted to amplify that with …
Projects: Slovenian Capital Using Visionect’s Smart E-Displays On Transit Stops September 2, 2015 by Super User The Slovenian smart display firm Visionect is working with officials in the capital city, Ljubljana, on sets of street-level bus stop displays that use electronic paper. Running on Visionect’s hardware and software, the new electronic paper screens show bus schedules, arrival information and potential route changes on four bus stops along Ljubljana’s central district. The value …
Capital Networks, OPTiFi Partner On New Audience Analytics Tech September 2, 2015 by Super User Digital signage and broadcast software company Capital Networks has entered into an interesting partnership with a small company that enables consumer behaviour metrics by picking up on smartphone signals. OPTiFi uses wireless sensing to anonymously register smartphones that come into a zone, and build aggregate patterns of what all those people do and how they …
Asus Announces Set Of $129 PCs On Sticks September 2, 2015 by Super User The gap continues to close in the battle over the lowest cost technology for putting digital signage in the field, with news this morning that Asus is marketing a $129 PC on a stick that has an Intel processor under the teeny little hood. The Asus VivoStick PC measures 5.4? x 1.3? x 0.6? and like …