Raspberry Pi Married To E-Paper, And They Make Digital Sign April 15, 2015 by Super User Here’s what I THINK is the first Raspberry Pi to be directly married to an e-paper display to make a rudimentary digital sign – the HAT Display from Percheron Eelectronics. The gadgets are being marketed via a Kickstarter project, at about $57 a unit, or 2 for $101. The HAT has a 2.7-inch e-paper display, as well as …
4K In Digital Signage: It’s Not A Sprint; It’s A Marathon April 15, 2015 by Super User I have a business contact I work with on video production, and I mentioned to him recently how it may well be time to step up production from 720P to 1080P, as that now seems to have settled in as the standard in digital signage video outputs. Nope, he said, we’re going right on past …
Video: UK’s Eclipse Digital Media Releases New Version of Embed Signage April 13, 2015 by Super User Doing posts on every version release of ALL the signage software companies out there would make for a very busy job, and probably a very boring blog. So while I am happy to learn that Brand X now does this and that, or has made something easier or added support for some gadget, I’m not …
Blue Bite, Partner Freckle IoT Creating Aggregated Beacons Proximity Ad Network April 10, 2015 by Super User Blue Bite is a NYC start-up that’s been hanging out around the edges of the digital signage and digital OOH sectors for a few years – marketing the capability and know-how to bridge smartphones and screens with tech like QR codes, SMS and NFC tags. The announced this week a deal with a Toronto company …
Talk Interactive At Tomorrow’s DSF Online Hangout April 7, 2015 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is staging what it dubs a DSF Education Hangout online tomorrow, focused on “What to Look for in Interactive Technologies.” The 45-minute session at 2 Eastern will be run by Rise Vision’s Ryan Cahoy and feature Vincent John Vincent, from Gesturetek, and Jim Nista from Insteo. The learning objectives include: Identifying new …
Triggered Content: What’s Old Is Somehow New Again April 2, 2015 by Super User More than 15 years in digital signage has, admittedly, left me a little jaded. What can excite a bunch of people barely gets a shrug out of me when I see it or read about it. Sometimes common sense tells you something won’t every really fly – like glasses-free 3D or most of the Stupid People …
TigerLogic Debuts Postano User-Gen Chrome App For Retail April 2, 2015 by Super User Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. It’s designed for integrating user-generated …
Sweden’s DISE Adds Support for Samsung SSP April 2, 2015 by Super User The Swedish software firm DISE is the latest to tweak its player software to run on Samsung’s Smart Signage Platform, which is built and marketed around the idea of having a System on Chip built into displays, removing the need for an external player. “You only need a network, a code and then you are …
Omnivex Launches Cloud Version Of Moxie Platform April 2, 2015 by Super User Toronto-based Omnivex has launched Moxie Cloud, billed as an easy-launch, affordable hosted spin on its powerful Movie digital signage management platform. Moxie Cloud’s subscription includes a series of professional-looking templates to get content up even without designers or agencies. It also includes a weather feed and news from Thomson Reuters. Moxie Cloud, says a release, is …
Acer To Ship 21.5-Inch Touch Chromebase April 1, 2015 by Super User Acer has announced plans to ship a giant 1080P tablet- called a Chromebase – by this summer, with touch and running Chrome OS. The unit is kinda sort a tablet and also kinda sorta an all-in-one display – in a 21.5-inch form factor. From the context of digital signage, this has endcap or podium display all …
