Projects: Tablet Choir Does Beethoven’s Ode To Joy February 14, 2015 by Super User And here we have 300 tablets all synced together, with Android avatars, singing Beethoven’s Ode To Joy as part of a Google Japan promotion. Extroverts at a shopping mall in Japan, where this was installed this week, got a T-shirt if they tried conducting the choir, via a gesture sensor. Digital signage? Well, sorta, given …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Rise Vision February 13, 2015 by Super User Ryan Cahoy, Managing Director, Rise Vision/Rise Display Booth 126 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Rise Vision will be featuring Google Chromeboxes and how users can leverage our free platform with low cost Chromebox hardware to drive digital signage. Google has created a lot of …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: NEC Display February 13, 2015 by Super User NEC Display Solutions, DSE Booth No. 2213 Ashley Flaska, VP Marketing Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? NEC Display will unveil its solutions and strategy for Ultra-High Definition displays in its booth. These UHD displays are 4x the resolution of full HD. While there …
NEC Display Names Bouman New President And CEO February 13, 2015 by Super User NEC Display Solutions has announced its new President and CEO of the Americas, with ex-Samsung exec Todd Bouman taking the post held for many years by Pierre Richer. Bouman was previously Vice President, Marketing for commercial displays and mobile products in the Enterprise Business Division at Samsung Electronics Americas. “Todd is a top performer and will …
Data Visualization: How The World Reacted To Kanye, Sia Et Al At Grammys February 10, 2015 by Super User I have been blabbering on for anyone that will listen about the possibilities good data visualization has for digital signage. I stress good because a lot of the visually interesting stuff I have seen falls down a little when you try to decode what the information is conveying. In other words, it can look cool, …
If You Don’t Really Do Device Management, You Don’t Really Do Digital Signage February 10, 2015 by Super User I was on a call recently with a guy from one of the more well-established companies in the digital signage software market, and as we wrapped up, he of course asked what I thought. Really good, as expected, I said, but maybe the device management was a little threadbare compared to some others I’d seen. …
PQ Labs Debuts 4K Touch Overlay At ISE February 10, 2015 by Super User The Silicon Valley firm PQ Labs is at ISE in Amsterdam this week showing off a new touchscreen overlay it describes as the best money can buy – and the description certainly tells a good story. The Multi-Touch G5: is built for 4K displays takes writing from a stylus no thicker than a pencil tip …
New Seneca Data Box 180s The Norm February 10, 2015 by Super User Here’s something I don’t often read about … a U.S. digital signage hardware manufacturer shipping INTO China. Seneca Data, now owned by distribution giant Arrow, has got its HDN digital signage player safety-certified for selling into the China market. The HDN, says Seneca, now holds CE, TUV, NOM, and CCC certifications. The HDN is Seneca’s take on the …
Codigo Goes HTML And Android In Major Platform Revamp February 10, 2015 by Super User Louisville-based software and solutions firm Codigo has joined the ranks of companies offering an Android solution, part of a new software release the company says rolls up a bunch of messaging systems into one HTML5-driven platform. “Two years ago, we saw a need for the consolidation of multiple retail media solutions into a single user …
New Zealand’s Wallflower DS Looking For Buyer February 9, 2015 by Super User New Zealand, from a distance, looks freakin’ amazing, so news that the country’s main digital signage solutions company is for sale gets the squeaky little wheels in my head turning. If only I had investment and operating capital … However … I don’t. But someone looking for a major change of scenery and a reason …
