Beacons: A Better Idea For Indoor Wayfinding August 19, 2014 by Super User Interactive wayfinding directories absolutely have a role in helping people find their way around sprawling retail, health care, higher education and corporate campuses. But emerging technology is going to erode some of their core reasons for existing. The directories are very good at telling people what’s there – through lookups and category sorting. But they’re …
Samsung Launches New Smart Digital Signage TV Product Aimed At Small Biz Market August 18, 2014 by Super User Samsung has just announced a new variant on its Smart Signage program – this one seemingly aimed squarely at the SMB space and built around its own MagicInfo software, and not that of any partners. Under the rather overstated headline “Samsung Revolutionizes Digital Signage with Introduction of Samsung Smart Signage TV for Small Shop and Business …
Projects: Tim Hortons Concept Store Includes Tabletop Interactive August 15, 2014 by Super User Here’s a video from a trade show last month in which the iconic Canadian coffee chain – which sells 8 of every 10 cups of coffee up here – showed what a store “could” look like one day. Too much white plastic for me, but I did like the stab at tabletop interactive ordering stations. …
With Moves By Intel And Microsoft, Maybe Digital Signage’s Future Isn’t All About ARM August 2, 2014 by Super User Maybe ARM isn’t entirely going to take over from old school x86 PCs for digital signage … When I was in Taipei at Computex a couple of months ago I saw a lot of computing devices and talked to a lot of people who were showing off low cost boxes that could ostensibly play back …
HTML5 Playback Gaining More Traction in Digital Signage Via IAdea July 31, 2014 by Super User Smaller screens in retail settings and outside meeting rooms seems to be an increasingly hot little focus area in digital signage, and Taiwan’s IAdea appears to seeing the benefits. IAdea and Scala did as 7,500 unit deal earlier this year involving small 10-inch signboards, and Taipei-based IAdea is now approaching 20 partners marketing a range …
Linutop Adds Kiosk Software For Raspberry Pi Digital Signage July 29, 2014 by Super User Add Linutop to the list of options for running digital signs using the teeny $45 Raspberry Pi micro-PC. The French software company has made its Linutop Kiosk available for Raspberry Pi devices. The software can handle secure Internet access Kiosks running HTML5 and digital signage systems using still images and MP4 video. The new version of …
Guest Post: Is Open Pluggable Still Relevant For Digital Signage? July 29, 2014 by Tara Parachuk Guest Post: Manuel Edghill, Digbil Is it time to yank OPS from the digital signage lexicon? Launched in 2010, a hardware standard named Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) was released, aiming to reduce digital signage market fragmentation and simplify device installation and maintenance. It has largely failed to achieve these objectives, due to high implementation costs, …
Failing To Plan A Digital Signage Project Means Planning To Fail July 26, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tom Pritzker, JohnRyan The old proverb “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” may have a lot of miles on it, but it keeps getting used because it’s simple, sound advice. Big projects can go adrift quickly if good work and thinking doesn’t go into the early scoping and …
TinyGreenPC Debuts Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Player July 23, 2014 by Super User TinyGreenPC has has been doing teeny solid-state micro PCs for a few years now, but the London, UK-based firm has announced a new digital signage player based on an the Raspberry Pi-ARM micro PC. The new player is a commercial-grade version of the hyper-popular Raspberry Pi, based on a partnership with Silver Curve and already set …
LG Testing Transparent OLED Panels That Bend In Half July 22, 2014 by Super User There’s a whiff of solution looking for problem about LG’s flexible display technology, but nonetheless, it is pretty interesting to see (as relayed by OLED-info) a transparent flat panel display that is so flexible you can roll it over. The tech blog reports: Two weeks ago LG announced it has developed 18″ rollable OLEDs and 18″ …
