Conductive Ink Makes Analog Posters Interactive May 28, 2014 by Super User How about a traditional advertising poster going interactive, without adding a screen? That’s what the brewer Beck’s has had up in cities around New Zealand this month – print posters that have conductive ink and speakers, making them playable as part of a music promotion. Described as the world’s first Playable Posters, the street-level ads …
UK Sign Prototype Bridges Analog And Digital May 27, 2014 by Super User Pixel Track from Berg on Vimeo. A British company called Berg is testing prototypes of a system that bridges analog and digital signage, using a system similar to the sort of cool, old-school arrivals and departures flipboards you see in some airports and rail stations. The PixelTrack system is set up like a horizontal track, …
BrightSign’s New 4K Player Makes 4K In Digital Signage Viable May 23, 2014 by Super User I have seen a lot of airports lately and it gets ugly in a week, so I am still noodling whether I will go to InfoComm, or skip it for the first time in forever. If I do go, one of the things I’ll make a bee-line to see is BrightSign’s solid-taste 4K media player. …
First Look: Oakley’s Ambient Ceiling in NYC 5th Ave Store May 22, 2014 by Super User I was in New York for a couple of days this week and made it something of a mission to get up to 5th Avenue and 46th Street to see what Montreal’s Moment Factory creative shop did with Oakley’s store on that high-end shopping strip. I wrote about recently, and ran some provided photos, but …
Navori Ports Android Player To NEC’s Slot-Loaded ARM Box May 22, 2014 by Super User The Swiss software company Navori has had an Android version of its digital signage platform on the market for the last 18 months or so, but on its own elected devices. Now the company has created an image for the software that runs on NEC’s Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) media players for Android that was launched at …
A Sub-$700 49-inch Android Smart Panel (Sadly Just Available In China) May 20, 2014 by Super User Bryan Mongeau, VP Technology at BroadSign, keeps one eye on the Asian flat panel display market, looking for “smart” displays with sufficient horsepower to fully apply to the digital signage space. His latest is from a Chinese startup called Xiaomi, which you may have heard of if you pay attention to the smartphone market. The …
Projects: Boarding Pass-Driven Wayfinding At Logan Airport May 17, 2014 by Super User I sat in on a nice presentation the other day that showed how Logan Airport in Boston has nicely thought through the challenges of wayfinding in big bustling airports, and built some well-established technology into the solution. The airport is rolling out interactive directories that let travelers find their gate on a map – as …
Holograms Help Winning Candidate Campaign Across India, From A Studio May 16, 2014 by Super User This is kind of wild … India’s new prime minister Shri Narendra Modi used holograms, portable stages and almost 200 high-end 14K and 20K Christie projectors to speak at 1,200 rallies in 32 days across that vast country, without actually being there. UK-based Musion Das Hologram was responsible for consulting, designing and managing the holographic election addresses …
Wireless Ronin Has Tentative Deal To Merge With Unnamed Marketing Technology Firm May 16, 2014 by Super User Wireless Ronin has a non-binding letter of intent in place to merge with an unnamed private company – called a “marketing technology integrator” – and is also making moves to do another private, since the executive is now conceding the digital signage software and services is almost out of money. In SEC filings this week. …
Electric Objects Poised To Launch Digital Art Display Service May 13, 2014 by Super User Electric Objects got some tech-blog love recently from TechCrunch, which wrote about the NYC start-up has raised $1.7 million to launch a service that I’d describe as a first-cousin of digital signage. The company is developing a service that allows people to hang digital art posters in their living or work spaces and subscribe to …
