LG Gets A Very Smart New TV; Will A Smart Sign Follow? December 19, 2013 by Super User LG appears set to release what would be a very smart TV at CES next month – making me wonder if the South Korean company has plans to migrate that horsepower to its commercial monitors. Tech blog The Verge is reporting LG will unveil a Smart TV that runs a 2.2GHz dual-core processor with 1.5GB …
19 Slices Of Raspberry Pi For Digital Signage December 13, 2013 by Super User Posts about using the $35 Raspberry Pi for a digital signage project tend to generate a lot of reader interest, and some work I’ve been doing has required me to poke around a bit to see what all is out there. Turns out there are many I didn’t know about. So here’s a round-up of …
Mash-up From Oslo Uses XBMC And Raspberry Pi To Make Digital Signage December 12, 2013 by Super User Norwegian start-up Tellystream has released a digital signage platform aimed squarely at the vast market of small business end-users who don’t have much enthusiasm for recurring monthly fees or what, in their general view, are unnecessarily expensive displays and playback devices. This system works on Samsung Smart TVs (the consumer versions, not Samsung’s Smart Signage …
Hisense Latest DisplayCo To Debut Giant Quasi-Tablets December 11, 2013 by Super User Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense is the latest company to release a big quasi-tablet that could be used for digital signage, though the caution here is that these are TVs and not commercial panels. However, the Hisense smart TVs run Android 4.2.2 and run the Marvell ARMADA 1500 media processor, which is what’s driving those Google …
Report: Newer iPads Being Used For Digital Signage Can Double As iBeacons With No New Tech December 7, 2013 by Super User There’s a very interesting piece in TechCrunch about Apple’s iBeacons and in-store digital that’s well worth a read. It goes into the long view Apple had for using Bluetooth LE in iPads and it means a pile of 3rd Gen and newer iPads already being used in retail as digital signage and POS can also …
What Apple’s iBeacons Mean For Digital Signage December 6, 2013 by Super User Apple has reportedly turned on its iBeacons capability in all of its 250+ US stores, giving it the capability to push messages to opted-in shoppers as they wander near and into the store. The tech uses the newest low-energy flavor of Bluetooth, and users need an official iOS Apple Store app for things to start …
Acer Blurs Digital Signage Tablets and Displays Further With New Win 8 All-In-One December 5, 2013 by Super User We told you recently about Acer releasing a 27-inch all-in-one display with an ARM processor that was, in effect, a crazily-big Android tablet. And one that could in theory serve some digital signage needs, and be a smaller, more open variant of a Samsung Smart Sign. Now via Engadget we see that Acer has released …
18 Digital Signage Answers To Meeting Room Booking Nightmares December 3, 2013 by Super User Looking for a meeting room solution? This post has proven so popular I started a dedicated micro-site for meeting room and conference room sign options – cleverly called Meeting Room Signs. OK, maybe not so clever, but certainly unambiguous. It’s a searchable directory of all the options out there. You can drill down by things …
Digital Dividers Get Brand Messages On Grocery Conveyors November 26, 2013 by Super User We’ve seen marketers try all kinds of gadgets and gizmos to get digital screens in front of shoppers when they are out buying their groceries, but few have stuck because of issues with cost, reliability or purpose. Like screens on shopping carts that would have to ensure endless, untold abuse. Here’s yet another angle at …
MIT Shows Off Amazing Tactile, Shape-Shifting User Interfaces (w/video) November 13, 2013 by Super User inFORM – Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo. The frighteningly bright young minds at MIT are making a lot of progress with the concept of changing interactivity from graphic user interfaces to tactile ones. I can’t begin to explain how this all works, but it’s intriguing and impressive. The …
