Advantech Walks IoT Talk With Clever Meeting Room System June 10, 2014 by Super User My last meeting in Taipei was at the impressive new headquarters building of the embedded systems giant Advantech, and I got a nice demo of an impressive meeting room system that walks the company’s talk about a sensor-driven, Internet of Things future. The first thing you notice in the right side of the main lobby …
Thoughts On Nine Days In 12 Time Zones Ahead June 10, 2014 by Super User If you want a good sense of how this industry is or will be going through massive disruption, seize on the opportunity – like I just did – to go to Asia. You’ll see what happens when everyone has broadband and digital payments are common. You’ll see what happens when 100s of companies are all making …
Digbil Partners With Taiwan Neighbor Viewsonic To Chase Global Digital Signage Business June 9, 2014 by Super User I had time last Friday, with Paul Flanigan, to head over after to see digbil after our presentations at the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance conference in Taipei. I’d not heard of digbil, at all, until I made some noise that I was coming to Taiwan. They got in touch, and had us over for a …
First Look: E-Ink 32-inch Displays June 9, 2014 by Super User One of the goals of walking Computex last week in Taiwan (still there, leaving in a few hours) was to see the new 32-inch E-Ink electronic ink displays that were recently announced. The company was set up in what I’d imagine was budget space in a secondary hall at the show (there were at least …
Computex 2014 Gives Glimpse At What’s Coming In Tech June 5, 2014 by Super User A quick hop on Eva Air and I went from Hong Kong to Taipei today, and pretty much straight over to the huge Computex show that covers at least couple of big facilities in Taiwan’s muggy and (today) wet capital city. Never been. Didn’t know much about it. But I can say it is very big …
DSrupted 2014: Doug Thompson On BLE Beacons And IOT May 30, 2014 by Super User Doug Thompson has signed on as a speaker for DSrupted, the first conference to put the full focus on how disruptive technologies affect the way digital signage networks are conceived, operated and managed. Since Apple announced its iBeacons last year I’ve seen and read kinds of stuff about the potential for sensors and transmitters in …
ComQi Debuts Highly Tweakable Local Digital Signage Messaging Manager May 29, 2014 by Super User Providing browser access to local managers to fill in web forms or fiddle with a pre-baked template is pretty standard fare in the digital signage industry these days, but ComQi has announced a new version of its own set of tools for that task, and it’s beefier than what else I’ve seen demo’d here, there and …
LG Going Big And Curvy Next Week At SID May 29, 2014 by Super User Flat panel display can’t get a whole lot bigger, but they keep getting thinner, lighter, brighter, sharper and, ummm, curvier. LG Display, for example, will be showing off a series of new displays at the big Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2014 show next week at the San Diego Convention Center. The company …
Get A Free Guide On The Awesome World Of Projection Mapping May 28, 2014 by Super User Christie Digital has released its second coffee table-style book celebrating display technology, this new one focused on the awesome world of projection mapping. The Book of Transformations is a free collection of stories, images and videos showing how projection mapping transforms storytelling and takes content outside of the traditional canvas and digital screen. The primer …
