Tokyo Scientists Create Touchscreen From Thin Air October 29, 2014 by Super User I’m not even going to pretend I understand what the heck is happening here, but it looks pretty intriguing. A team at the University of Tokyo has created a virtual holographic screen that you can see, feel and use as a touch surface. Called HaptoMime, it uses reflective surfaces and infrared sensors that detect fingers. …
HTML5 Is Done Evolving October 28, 2014 by Super User The really technical stuff is here, but the doofus version that suits me much better is that the W3C organization that sets HTML development standards globally published its Recommendation of HTML5 — the final version of the HTML5, years after it was first introduced. All the cool stuff that you never used to be able to do …
Looking Ahead To CEW In NYC October 28, 2014 by Super User Customer Engagement World is next week, and I took some time to see what all is there in terms of exhibitors and speakers. It’s really clear now that the event is not at all a digital signage show, something organizer Lawrence Dvorchik has been telling anyone who’d listen for a few years now. He started …
Lowes Testing Robot Store Associate: Goofy, But Then Again … October 28, 2014 by Super User Lowes Innovation Labs is testing and planning to deploy in a Silicon Valley store, not a big-ass Lowes but a smaller chain it also owns, a roaming robot that will answer questions and lead you to the particular fastener, tool or whatever you are looking for. This thing looks like a Jetsons robot and moves …
Using WiFi To Measure Crowds, Estimate Waits October 27, 2014 by Super User We’re starting to see technology emerge that can establish patterns in retail and public environments just by picking up the MAC addresses on smartphones that have their WiFi on and triangulating roughly where they are. That can establish heat maps of where people go and how long they dwell, and in some cases, start to …
Christie, Arsenal Start Push For Experiential-Driven Movieplexes October 24, 2014 by Super User There’s an interesting piece today on Film Journal International about the how Christie Digital is positioning and using Arsenal Media, the Montreal creative shop it acquired in June, to reshape the cinema experience outside the actual theatres. The combined companies are going to a very familiar customer base with a proposition that the outside …
DMS Built To Create Directory Order From Facility Chaos October 22, 2014 by Super User I had a demo the other day of a really nice product called Directory Management Studio, software that enforces order on what can be the low-tech, chaotic business of staying on top of where things are in large facilities and passing that along in intelligent ways to the people who use those facilities. The …
Welsh Pub Adds Screens, Tablets To Enable Self-Serve Pints October 21, 2014 by Super User A pub in Swansea, Wales has launched what is thought to be the first in the UK to use digital screens and tabletop tablets for self-service pint-pounding. The Independent, among several papers, is reporting how the Westbourne in Swansea, south Wales is Britain’s first iPub. We doubt the Westbourne are using that reference, unless they …
Auto Ad Becomes Snowmobile Ad October 17, 2014 by Super User I was explaining to a business contact one of the big keys to Spotomate is malleable templates, and while I have seen that work, I wanted to try it and back up the assertion that a template built for one kind of products can pretty easily be used for something quite different. Here’s a car ad, …
