Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage July 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. The App Market pitch is that it brings the smartphone app store idea to digital signage – allowing users to poke around the Enplug App Market and selecting from a variety of content-focused …
Directable Puts Digital Signage On Sony’s Android TVs July 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. As with some other Android solutions out there, you get moving on this by getting the TVs, connecting them online, and then hitting the …
Meet Veronica, Revel’s Digital Mannequin July 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. The goggles have LEDs in them and …
Research Suggests Android Picking Up Steam In Signage, Embedded Markets July 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes The embedded business unit of VIA Technologies in Taiwan – which has a big office in Silicon Valley, as well – has done a worldwide survey of end-user customers to get a sense of where they’re at with using Android. Some 93% of the roughly 250 respondents indicated they are either currently using or are …
Projects: Augmented Reality Video Wall Fills French Grocery Carts In Surprising Ways July 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes Via PSFK This is a clever use of augmented reality that happily doesn’t require the experience to happen through the lens of a smartphone screen. The French supermarket chain Système U used gesture cameras, software and a large video wall at a store to deliver a fun way of communicating the origins of some of its …
Infographic: How Digital Menu Boards Help Businesses July 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice infographic ROI-modeling digital menu boards that was passed along by Neil Maycock of Allsee Technologies, a UK-Chinese company that makes a broad range of digital signage displays.
Intel Releasing Ubuntu Linux Compute Stick; Specs Not Encouraging July 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes If you are a digital signage propellerhead and have been looking at the Intel Compute Stick and thinking about running one with Linux on it, it looks like that won’t work so hot. ZDnet reports that a $110 Ubuntu Linux version of the PC on a stick will go on sale next week, at least in …
Leap Motion Used As Portable Touchscreen Demo July 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes When the Leap Motion came out there was quite a bit of curiosity in this sector as to whether it could be used as a low-cost but effective alternative to expensive touchscreen overlays and add-ons. I ordered one, and tried it out, and was fairly underwhelmed by its capabilities. Then it sat on my desk …
Liveposter’s Martin Porter Rounds Out Terrific DSrupted Line-up June 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. …
How Digital Menu Boards Can Help You June 30, 2015 by Debbie DeWitt Guest Post: Freddie Laker, Kairos Stand at the counter in any fast food restaurant or cafe. Somewhere up in front of you there will be a menu displayed. In some places, it might be very amateurish, maybe even handwritten. More often, there will be sign-written boards. Usually these are drab, tedious, and functional. They list what …
