Projects: Pooch Follows Shoppers Around UK Mall Via Sensors May 29, 2015 by Super User This is a very clever marketing campaign, spotted in Digital Sign Age, to drive animal adoptions from a London shelter. Called Looking For You, the recent campaign used the digital screens at the Westfield Stratford City in London to run a series of triggered videos that gave some shoppers the sense a very cute little …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Jim Marascio, 11 Giraffes May 28, 2015 by Super User Here’s one in what I hope will be a series of posts for attendees, and separately for exhibitors, talking about why they go to InfoComm and what they’re looking for when there. This one is from Jim Marascio, the CTO and VP Ops at Charlotte, NC-based solutions provider 11 Giraffes. 1 – How many years …
E Ink Showing Its New Prism Display Next Week At SID May 28, 2015 by Super User E Ink will be showing its very cool Prism architectural display tech next week at the SID Display Week in Silicon Valley. Launched at CES a few months ago, Prism is color changing electronic ink technology that architects and designers can use to transform spaces and surroundings. It’s not really digital signage in any conventional sense, …
Live Data Visualizations As Hypnotic Signage May 28, 2015 by Super User On the way to San Francisco’s airport after a day with a client 2-3 weeks ago I stopped in at Google for a quick update meeting on what the tech giant is up to with Chrome and Chromeboxes for digital signage. In the lobby of the building I was in – one of the main …
Video: Using McDonald’s New Self-Ordering Kiosk To Get A Very Big Mac May 28, 2015 by Super User Here’s a somewhat warped look at the Create Your Taste digital ordering kiosks that McDonald’s is testing in some U.S. outlets. A guy named Moshe Tamssot decided to push the ordering system to its limits – and eat enough to feed a Sudanese village – by pounding the touchscreen + sign on every optional item …
Research: 17.2 M Digital Signs By 2019 (Updated) May 27, 2015 by Super User A boutique market research firm in Sweden, focused on the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine connectivity businesses, has pushed out a report suggesting global shipments of networked digital signage displays grew by 21.7 percent last year. Berg Insight suggests that high growth will continue for the next several years, ticking along at a compound annual …
IAdea Releasing Pair Of Solid State 4K Signage Players May 27, 2015 by Super User Taiwan’s IAdea is releasing a commercial-grade, video wall-ready 4K digital signage player that supports H.265 video decoding, the emerging standard that can cut monster 4K video file sizes in half. The XMP-7300 is a solid-state and fan-less, and housed in a ruggedized quarter-inch thickness aluminum enclosure. A version of the unit is being made to comply with the Open …
UC View Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support May 26, 2015 by Super User The LA software firm UCView announced last year its support for the initial Raspberry Pi micro PC, and its developers have now followed up with support for the beefier Raspberry Pi 2. The new software is also completely compatible with the original UC View ARM Caster HD (Raspberry Pi 1). The company, via its blog, says the …
Cloud down, so sign down (Updated) May 26, 2015 by Super User Bryan Mongeau, the Vice President of Technology at BroadSign, and a guy who pays a lot of attention to emerging tech, sent along this photo he strayed across online of an ad campaign running on a Times Square LED ad board: Says Bryan: This error is coming from the Azure cloud service, which means someone …
Projects: One World Trade Center’s Digital-Filled Observatory May 22, 2015 by Super User The 102nd floor deck on top of the new World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan – the building that went up next to the footprint of the two towers brought down on 9-11, opens as an observatory next week. It’s a $32 elevator ride to go up and have a look around, but there’s …
