Projects: Interactive Selfie Booth Welcomes, Informs College Freshmen December 12, 2014 by Super User This is a smart use of an interactive digital sign, combining the base functionality of an information station with a magnetic, playful piece that draws people to the device. Robert Morris University – a 5,000 student college in Pennsylvania – wanted a better way to communicate with and direct new students during orientation week …
The Department Of Debunk December 11, 2014 by Super User NY-based software provider ComQi as issued a nice white paper designed to serve as a matter of fact guide for choose the right media player for a digital signage job. There’s a little slice of promo in there, inevitably, but it’s a solid guide that’s broken into chunks and has a particularly insightful section called Department …
Paper Madness In The Land Of Flat Panels December 10, 2014 by Super User One of my lingering impression of spending time last week in Seoul was how technologically advanced it was in so any ways, and how backward mobile retailing was in the land of Samsung and LG. This is a VERY typical Korean mobile carrier store. I don’t know enough about how things work over there, but …
Userful Launches Product that Delivers And Runs Ultra HD Video Walls Over Local Networks December 9, 2014 by Super User Last week a Calgary, Alberta company called Userful, unfamiliar to me, put out a press release about launching a world’s first 4K video wall product. Well, I thought, I’m, not sure how doing 4K is all that new in terms of resolution or running it off a network. There are some pretty good companies out …
Planar Now Shipping Monster 98-inch Multi-Touch 4K Panel December 9, 2014 by Super User This is a seriously big, crisp touchscreen … Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started shipping its UltraRes 98” Touch – which makes multi-touch available on a native 4K Ultra HD screen. It has 32 simultaneous touch points, and is designed for a collaborative applications like meeting rooms, training facilities and command and control centers. It would also do well for interactive …
Projects: Light Up House For Holidays With LCD Panels And Raspberry Pis December 9, 2014 by Super User This exists. The CEO of a company built on moving a lot new and surplus LCD panels is tinkering around with hanging a row of Sharp 6.5-inch LCDs off the rain gutters of his Southern California house, the content driven by Raspberry Pis at each panel, and another Pi functioning as the server. Randy Schafer, …
Projects: Auckland’s Airport Switches On Digital OOH Network December 9, 2014 by Super User The down under media company APN Outdoor has turned on a new digital OOH network of screens in the Auckland, New Zealand airport – landscape, portrait, speciality video wall and 4K screens all aimed at the 15 million travelers who fly in and out of there annually. The 72 displays in the network are all running …
BroadSign Hails London Taxi Deal December 8, 2014 by Super User BroadSign has announced it waved frantically from the burb and got Metropolis Digital Media Ltd to pull over and pick up the company’s software for a media network running on London’s licensed black taxis. The deal involves 500 taxi-toppers to start, and will scale up from there. The set-up is a pair of 1920 x 440 LCD panels …
How Banks Can Differentiate Digital Signage Vendors December 8, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tim Pritzker, JohnRyan Bank marketers have been sitting through what has to be the longest parade in history – the endless march into their meeting rooms of digital signage solutions providers. The parade’s been going on for more a decade, and shows no real sign of ending. For every company that drifts off …
Digital Signage Gangnam Style December 4, 2014 by Super User Spotomate partner Shakr Media’s offices are just off the shopping and entertainment district called Gang-nam – a Seoul district now made famous by that crazy music video by Korean pop star Psy. I wrapped up a little early yesterday and went for a walk up and down this wide, very busy thoroughfare, and also dipped …
