Mvix Launches All-In $259 Digital Signage Player & Software Bundle September 23, 2015 by Dave HaynesThe Sterling, Virginia-based signage firm Mvix has launched a new hardware/software bundle that gets users a teeny Intel-based player and lifetime software for just $259. Dubbed Xhibit Mykro, the set-up is an Intel Bay Trail-based player and Mvix’s cloud-based XhibitSignage software, which can be managed and updated over the Internet, supports HTML5 media playback, and has the …
How To Go Interactive In Digital Signage September 22, 2015 by Mark McDermott GUEST POST: Mark Janke, Deviceworx There’s a reason so many digital signs out there have fingerprints all over them – consumers expect that pretty much any screen they see and use will be interactive, just like their phones and tablets. But only a fraction of the digital signs now operating in the field are set …
Breaking Through The Retail Kaleidoscope September 21, 2015 by Michael Tutton GUEST POST: Henrik Andersson, Instorescreen How do consumer brands get noticed in retail, when consumers walk in and see a kaleidoscope of competing visual cues? The big brands do what’s needed to get the prime visual real estate, and the rest do what they can in packaging and visuals to break through the visual clutter, …
Projects: Toronto’s Union Station Ties Up Ads With LED September 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes Anyone who commutes into Toronto by rail can tell you what a confused, awful mess its main rail station has been for many years, and fortunately the long-running effort to spruce it up is starting to be revealed. The new York Concourse area opened recently – and it doesn’t feel like a basement storage hall for …
Now Ride-Hailing Cars Have Ad Screens September 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
