Projects: Madame Tussauds Uses Giant LED Wall To Hoover In Times Square Tourists August 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York’s Time Square has put a massive 13 ft by 12 foot LED screen in a glassed part of the facade to pull in tourists passing by on 42nd Street. The LED is a big NanoLumens unit, running content via Scala software based on a concept developed by …
AOPEN Formally Launches Commercial-Grade Chromebox August 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based device-maker AOPEN has formally launched the commercial-grade Chromebox the company first previewed at Google’s booth months ago at Digital Signage Expo. Called the Chromebox Commercial, the device has long been awaited by software companies and integrators who are already working with Chrome, but were perhaps a little jumpy about the distinctly consumer-grade Chromeboxes already …
ScreenScape Builds Sports Video Clip Platform Into CMS Offer August 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes PEI’s ScreenScape Networks Inc. has worked a content deal with another Canadian company that specializes in packaging up sports highlights as YouTube-style videos. Victoria, BC’s SendtoNews is making digital content available to ScreenScape’s CMS platform customers through its own SportStation platform, on a pay-per-use basis. The partnership offers two levels of SportStation programming: A standard package will supply daily …
Toronto’s IdeaLab Debuts Turnkey Kiosk Rental Offer August 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes Anybody who has sold digital signage product and had conversations with brand marketers has probably had rent-versus-buy questions thrown at them from people who like what they saw, but only needed it for a few weeks, not a few years. That’s stopped many projects and ideas in their tracks, because the options to rent a …
New IoT Density Sensor Opens Up More Possibilities For Real-Time Messaging August 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes Via Engadget If you follow tech writing, you won’t scroll too far on any site before you run into an Internet of Things piece. It’s a massive subject, but here’s an IoT gadget you can quickly get your head around, as it might apply to digital signage and digital OOH. A teeny sensor from a …
Sharp Exits TV Market In Americas, But Not Commercial Display Biz July 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes China’s Hisense Group and Japan’s Sharp announced a deal today that sees Hisense buying all the equity and assets of Sharp’s TV factory in Mexico (for $23.7 million) and with that the rights to use the “Sharp” brand name and all its channel resources in both North and South American regions. In effect, Hisense is completely taking over …
Combining Raspberry Pi & Windows 10 IoT To Make A (Very) Basic Digital Sign July 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes Microsoft’s developer site has a post and details up about how people determined to spend as little as possible on signage software and hardware could put a project together with a $45 Raspberry Pi single board computer and the new Windows 10 IoT Core operating system software. The developer details are over my head, but the …
Nice Tunnel, Shame About The Screens July 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes If you fly into Toronto via the little island airport just off downtown, it’s great in just about every way. Handy. Great view coming in and leaving. Fun carrier in Porter Airlines. But the island airport was always accessible only by what has to be among the shortest ferry rides in existence. The handy airport …
11Giraffes Formally Turns On Chromebox Support July 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes Charlotte-based digital signage software company 11Giraffes has formally joined the list of companies now supporting Google’s Chrome operating system with its digital content management platform. The company started working with Google last fall and used the tech giant’s conversion processed to develop a variant of the 11Giraffe’s Android signage player to use with the Google for Work platform. Says …
Last Week To Save On DSrupted Tickets July 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes This week is the last week to save $50 on getting your early bird ticket for DSrupted, the conference Sept. 16th ion Toronto focused on disruptive technology in digital signage. After Friday, tickets are $345 for a full day of expert sessions on subjects such as data visualization, real-time data-driven advertising, Internet of Things, new …
