One Pi + One Nerd = One Digital Sign For Kitchen January 20, 2014 by Super User San Francisco engineer/developer Brendan Nee got himself a little sub-$50 Raspberry Pi micro PC, played around with it, and came up with a real-time transit arrivals display … for his kitchen. Writes Nee on his blog: This shows the real-time arrival predictions for the transit routes near me, a map of the stops, the weather, and …
LG Will Soon Have Its Own “Smart Sign” January 20, 2014 by Super User I recently saw an LG presentation that indicates the company will soon start marketing a rival product to the Samsung SmartSignage platform. The “system on chip” design – essentially a smartphone/tablet CPU embedded in a commercial display panel – looks very similar to the Samsung product announced and released about a year ago. The big …
The Looming LED Price War & Implications For End-Users January 17, 2014 by Nick Donaldson GUEST POST The LED display business is maturing, and that’s going to inevitably trigger a price war that’s both good and cautionary news for the digital signage industry. Surface-mounted LED display technology is now teetering between a period of growth and a period of maturity. Maturity will see some companies grow, others will disappear and …
No More Crickets: Intel Starts Talking Digital Signage After Long Silence January 14, 2014 by Super User It has been more than half a year since Intel announced it was making the curious move of getting into the digital signage content management system, a field already as crowded as the line-up outside a Walmart on Black Friday. Then the cricket sounds started. And persisted. For the better part of seven months. I …
Capital Networks Picks Up Award For Its NFC-Big Screen Integration January 8, 2014 by Super User Congratulations to long-time industry friends and Sixteen:Nine sponsors Capital Networks, which has picked up a 2014 DIGI Award for what was judged one of the best new products for the digital signage market in 2013. The Best New Audience Participation Tool award was for Audience.mobile, an integrated Dynamic NFC (Near Field Communication) solution. I got a demo …
Android And Windows Move In Together January 7, 2014 by Super User Some of the early reports coming out of CES are about work that would see the Windows and Android operating systems running on the same computing device, seamlessly. AMD has a partnership with BlueStacks – emulator software that makes Android apps run on Windows devices – to develop technology that would run Android apps within …
Intel Debuts PC The Size Of SD Card January 7, 2014 by Super User Intel has announced its Edison development board – what amounts to a Pentium PC the size of an SD card. The Edison board has a low-power 400MHz Intel Quark processor with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This is not something you will trot down to your local Best Buy to grab for $49 or something. …
Ick No More: Bacteria-Killing Touchscreen Glass January 6, 2014 by Super User Corning is introducing its Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass at CES this week – material embedded with ionic silver to kills the invisible germs that make people want to control touchscreens with their elbows. Gorilla Glass is well established as a damage resistant glass substrate for all kinds of devices, starting with smartphones and scaling up from …
16:9’s Top 10 Posts Of 2013 December 30, 2013 by Super User Here’s what Google Analytics tells me are the most read posts of 2013 on Sixteen:Nine. As you will see, there is a very heavy interest in all things cheap and open source, which should offer some worrying clues to anyone who thinks the future of the sector is based around expensive PCs and big dollar …
DSrupted: Technologies That Will Disrupt Digital Signage In 2014 December 23, 2013 by Super User I define disruptive technology as software, gear and infrastructure that significantly changes how things have long been done and used. Minor disruption is happening all the time in the digital signage space. But I think 2014 will see some major disruption, on a number of fronts. Here’s a rundown of what I see happening (helped …
