Samsung, Google, Hypersign Team On Education Bundle May 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes This seems slightly odd. Samsung has put a huge amount of effort and resources into marketing the features and benefits of its Smart Signage platform, but has joined a collaborative program that is built around an external device that negates the need for the smarts in the sign. It’s a collaboration with Google and the CMS company …
Projects: Fans Get Their Hockey Beards On For NY Rangers Games May 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes MVP Interactive is doing a fan activation thing with pro hockey’s New York Rangers – using interactive screens that allow even little kids to get their playoff beard on. Fans can instantly grow their own beard based off a current player’s unique and personal styled beard and long hockey hair. Using QR codes, pre-registered fans …
Sightings: Digital Vending Machine At SFO May 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes Spotted a pair of digital vending machines at a Delta concourse at SFO. I know the concept or tech is not new, but it was the first time I’ve seen a vending unit in North America that wasn’t specific to a brand, ie Coke. Again, I’m sure they’ve been around for a while, but a first …
Samsung Canada Opens Executive Briefing Centre April 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes The best of intentions, but not the best follow-through meant I registered to go see Samsung Canada’s new executive briefing centre in suburban Toronto yesterday, but never actually got away from world HQ. Stupid-busy. But Computer Dealer News has a post up that includes numerous pix of the new digs in Mississauga. Samsung has a big …
Toronto’s BIG Digital Goes After High Demand-Low Supply Short Term Business April 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes If you have sold digital signage solutions at all, you have undoubtedly come across clients – particularly brands, their field marketing agencies, and events companies – who didn’t want to buy your stuff. They wanted to rent it. Because they didn’t need it for long. Or they didn’t want to store it. I always had …
Dear Digital Signage Ecosystem: Ignore Augmented Reality Goggles April 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes There is a great piece in Wired about the latest big tech stab at augmented reality, using those goggles, or as someone has dubbed them, faceputers. Ugly handle, and just the right measure of disdain. The Wired writer sums it up this way: That’s the real barrier to consumer adoption of augmented reality. It’s weird. …
Nanolumens Expands Beyond LED To Projection Surfaces April 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes It seems like all the display guys are branching out lately. First it was software and now display types. You may think of Atlanta-based NanoLumens as a company squarely in the business of making lightweight, skinny and modular LED displays, but now they’ve announced a clear transparent surface you’d liken to 3M’s Vikuiti film surfaces. The NanoClear …
Something New: Enclosures That Don’t Look Industrial April 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes The companies out there that do LCD panel enclosures for advertising and retail generally do a great job with the important engineering bits like heating and cooling, and durability in the face of an ever abusive general public. Where they don’t tend to excel is design. They tend to look like squared-off steel slabs. …
The TV Sign Joins The Android Digital Signage CMS Crowd April 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes The entry-level software options keep coming for digital signage – even though it is very easily argued supply vs demand thing went way off kilter years ago. The latest entrant in this crowded field is The TV Sign, a new Android-driven, browser-based CMS out of Erie, PA, just west of Buffalo, NY. The SaaS-based product …
Here Comes Schedulla, The Door Sign Monster April 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes A Polish company has launched a meeting room product that uses Android for the operating system and then takes the smart step of integrating beacons. Called Schedulla, a play on Godzilla, the tablet-centric platform has a simple CMS that allows users to pick a room, pick a date, describe, and invite participants. The system syncs with Google Calendar or …
