Clarity Gap Closing As Super-Tight LED Walls Light Up September 5, 2014 by Dave Haynes About a year and a half ago I was walking around the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas and got stopped dead in my tracks by a giant LED video wall that even up close looked terrific. It was a 1.9 mm pixel pitch wall, with the little LED modules positioned so tightly …
DSrupted Will Offer Instant Pheedback For Speakers September 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes DSrupted already has a very nice, dedicated app that enables attendees to network, message and set-up chats with other attendees. It’s called Bizzabo and I’m liking what it does. The event will also have a mobile tool that will allow attendees to not only rate speakers, but provide direct feedback and message the speakers. Instead …
MIT Testing New Breed Of Transparent Displays September 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes Via Trefor Brock’s blog, here’s some intriguing tech coming out of the MIT labs. This is a polymer film injected with nanoparticles that create single-color visuals on glass, with the longer view to support the primary colors and therefore do proper images. I almost sound smart there. The people in the video explain it all. [embedplusvideo …
RDM Formally Adds NFC-Enabled Content To Neocast Platflorm September 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes Real Digital Media has formally announced NFC-enabled content capabilities for its NEOCAST digital signage, a few months after showing the concept at the Digital Signage Expo trade show. Working with iZipline and its MediaTags Platform, RDM’s digital signage network clients can now synchronize on-screen content with brand marketing content to drive instant, dynamic interactions with …
Omnivex Debuts Leaner Version Of Moxie, Aimed At SMB Market September 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based Omnivex, one of the oldest digital signage software companies in the game, has tweaked its go to market off to make it easier and more affordable for the small to medium business crowd to opt in on the platform. Omnivex has primarily sold its flagship Moxie product to mid-size and large enterprises, selling on a …
DSrupted Is Two Weeks Out – Here’s Who’s Coming September 2, 2014 by Dave Haynes The first digital signage conference focused just on disruptive technologies is now just a couple of weeks, and if you are still on the fence about attending, here’s a rundown on the companies sending people to DSrupted on Sept. 17th. First, there will be a bunch of people from venue hosts Telus (a big Canadian …
Acer Joins The Google Chromebox Party September 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes Acer has joined Asus and HP in releasing low cost, teeny Chromebox cloud PCs that run Google’s Chrome operating system. They’re boxes the tech giant is touting for any number of uses, including digital signage. The new Acer Chromebox CXI runs an Intel Haswell processor and is aimed at education, small to medium businesses and budget-minded users who …
LED Tiles You Can Snap Together, With No Wires, Like Kids’ Builder Sets August 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to InAVate in the UK for turning me on to a new Finnish start-up that has a different take on LED display blocks. Stramos does 10 cm by 10 cm (4″X4″) blcoks that are almost like ceramic tiles in terms of form. The Stramos Tiles are modular and just snap together, a bit like a …
Moved Again, Hopefully For Last Time August 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes When I started this blog back in early 2006 I was hosted by WordPress, for nothing. But that didn’t even allow my own URL, so I eventually found some Russian guy in Queens who did hosting for $3/month, and my own domain was born. That actually worked pretty well, but if the servers went …
In Digital Signage, Everyone’s A Content Producer August 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes In the talks I have been doing lately, one of the points I’ve been raising consistently is that everyone is now a potential content producer for digital signs. We’re all walking around with smartphones that are as good or better than many point and shoots. Most phones and tablets also tend to have pretty good …
