Projects: Projection Mapping Transforms Romanian Parliament October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes I love projection mapping. Even wrote a book about it. This is the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, which is second only to the Pentagon in size when it comes to the world’s largest administrative buildings. To celebrate the 555th anniversary of the capital city, the 23,000 sq. metre facade of the …
Apple Gets Patent Grant For Wireless, Flexible Digital Signs October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes Apple has received patent approval for a device and method that is effectively a flexible, networked digital sign that uses Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) media files. US patent 8,855,727 is summarized this way: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method to communicate multimedia documents or content to a mobile or fixed device over a …
Report: Google Lab Working On New Display Tech October 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes A pile of tech blogs are quoting and drafting off a Wall Street Journal piece that suggests its R&D lab is developing seamless modular display blocks that – in the absence of real details – sound most like those already in the market from Christie, Prysm and Eyevis. The Journal story – behind a pay …
STiNO Latest Firm To Jump Android Digital Signage To Intel Tech October 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes The German AV software firm STiNO is the latest company to announce it is working with Intel on an entry-level Android player that uses an x86 processor instead of something produced with ARM’s reference design. That’s at least three companies in the past week, which makes me reasonably think this is not coincidental. More likely, …
Mirabyte Releases Free Windows Lockdown Tool For Digital Signage October 2, 2014 by Dave Haynes A German software company has released a new, free software tool designed to make configuring and protecting things like Windows-based digital signage players and kiosks a lot easier than normal. Mirabyte’s FrontFace Lockdown Tool organizes all the various settings and configuration options in different versions of Windows to lock-down and protect a public-facing kiosk PC or …
Revel Digital Puts Android On Intel October 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes RevelDigital, a digital signage software firm based in Fargo, ND (yes, THAT Fargo) was one of the early copanies to get into the Android ARM race for players and platform. And now it is one of the first companies to jump on the opportunity to use an Intel chipset that will allow it to run and support …
Projects: Interactive Ad Pods In Bangalore September 26, 2014 by Dave Haynes I have my doubts about Digital OOH executions that require gesture interaction, or what I fondly call Stupid People Tricks. There’s a dynamic at play that limits how many people want to try something that might embarrass them. There’s also the simple question of whether gesture is there for the sake of novelty versus it …
FWI Adds Content And Functionality Apps In New V5 Digital Signage Software Release September 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes I don’t tend to write up news of version releases from digital signage software companies because that would be a full-time task, and if you do it for one, then everyone expects equal treatment. Very slippery slope. But I’ll mention new software stuff here and there for various reasons, including in this case the vendor being among …
New IAdea Media Player Design Allows Android Digital Signage On Intel Chips September 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s IAdea has announced a new hardware platform that intriguingly makes it possible to run an Android digital signage application on conventional Intel x86 architecture, instead of the ARM-0based CPUs that have been used to date for Android products. The platform was demonstrated today, with Intel, at the Digital Signage Shanghai Show. IAdea suggests this new set-up …
Price Tag Company Says It Has 6 Million Digital Signs Running September 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes Is a network-updated digital price tag a digital sign? I could get on either side of that on a debate, but my gut reaction is, “Not really.” Whatever the case, a Silicon Valley company is talking about how it has 6 million digital signs out in the marketplace in Europe and North America. That would make …
