Visix Adds Client-Branded Smartphone App And Beacons For Wayfinding June 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based Visix has added an interesting new element to its product offer aimed at corporate facilities and campuses – a brand-able wayfinding app for smartphones that can be tied to bluetooth low energy beacons. The app can be used as an extension of traditional kiosk-based wayfinding or as a stand-alone solution. “We’ve had great success providing …
Retail Innovation Workspace And Lab Opens In SF Mall June 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes What would be a really good environment to test and tweak retail technologies, and get them in front of major retailers and brands? How about a major mall in a tech hotbed, in a city few people groan about having to visit for a business trip? That’s at least part of the idea of a …
Intel’s Compute Stick Gets Big Shoulder Shrug In Lab Testing June 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes The geeks at Engadget have put put one of Intel’s new Compute Sticks through testing, and come back with a resounding shoulder shrug. “The Compute Stick,” concludes the review, “shows that Intel can build an entirely new form of computing device, but it fails to prove why anyone would want one.” The technical testing put …
Four Winds Gets “Cool Vendor” Nod From Gartner May 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes Denver-based signage software firm Four Winds Interactive got a nice little nod recently from the tech-centric market analysis firm Gartner, listing it among a tight selection of Cool Vendors for Content Management for 2015. The April report by Gartner evaluated content management vendors that “provide IT leaders, HR and marketing strategists with innovative solutions to help them share, …
Projects: Pooch Follows Shoppers Around UK Mall Via Sensors May 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is a very clever marketing campaign, spotted in Digital Sign Age, to drive animal adoptions from a London shelter. Called Looking For You, the recent campaign used the digital screens at the Westfield Stratford City in London to run a series of triggered videos that gave some shoppers the sense a very cute little …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Jim Marascio, 11 Giraffes May 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s one in what I hope will be a series of posts for attendees, and separately for exhibitors, talking about why they go to InfoComm and what they’re looking for when there. This one is from Jim Marascio, the CTO and VP Ops at Charlotte, NC-based solutions provider 11 Giraffes. 1 – How many years …
E Ink Showing Its New Prism Display Next Week At SID May 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes E Ink will be showing its very cool Prism architectural display tech next week at the SID Display Week in Silicon Valley. Launched at CES a few months ago, Prism is color changing electronic ink technology that architects and designers can use to transform spaces and surroundings. It’s not really digital signage in any conventional sense, …
Live Data Visualizations As Hypnotic Signage May 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes On the way to San Francisco’s airport after a day with a client 2-3 weeks ago I stopped in at Google for a quick update meeting on what the tech giant is up to with Chrome and Chromeboxes for digital signage. In the lobby of the building I was in – one of the main …
Video: Using McDonald’s New Self-Ordering Kiosk To Get A Very Big Mac May 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a somewhat warped look at the Create Your Taste digital ordering kiosks that McDonald’s is testing in some U.S. outlets. A guy named Moshe Tamssot decided to push the ordering system to its limits – and eat enough to feed a Sudanese village – by pounding the touchscreen + sign on every optional item …
Research: 17.2 M Digital Signs By 2019 (Updated) May 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes A boutique market research firm in Sweden, focused on the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine connectivity businesses, has pushed out a report suggesting global shipments of networked digital signage displays grew by 21.7 percent last year. Berg Insight suggests that high growth will continue for the next several years, ticking along at a compound annual …
