Looking Ahead To ISE January 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m starting to get my head together for what will be my first time at Integrated Systems Europe, which is in Amsterdam in less than a month. Flight booked. AirBnB place arranged. I’ve even scoped out how I could maybe go see a Dutch pro football (soccer) match – PSV Eindhoven v FC Utrecht, if anyone else …
Signagely Rebrands As Metascreen; Adds Free CMS Tier January 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes Austin, Texas-based Signagely has rebranded as Metascreen, and opened up a free-forever tier to its web app-driven digital signage CMS. Founder Nick Kristoffersen says the name change was a simple case of coming to grips with the hard time people were having with pronouncing and spelling Signagely. I don’t think Signagely is all that hard, but …
Samsung Uses Robotics For Transformable Video Walls January 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital signage vet Tom McGowan was at CES last week – taking great advantage of avoiding most of the mayhem and high costs, because he lives south of the airport in Las Vegas and knows how to get to and from the LVCC with minimal fuss. He said he was interested in going not so …
Samsung Shows Off Mirror LCDs, Transparent OLEDs At CES January 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’ve been following all the tech writing coming from CES, and from my narrow perspective, LG seems to be getting more attention than Samsung when it comes to displays. LG has the bendy OLED and the double-sided OLED, and LG has certainly put more of a focus on OLED than its Korean rival in the past …
Projects: Twisting LED Sculpture Makes Waves In Houston Skyscraper January 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
