The Big-Ass Tablets Are Coming! November 10, 2013 by Super User Bryan Mongeau from BroadSign is a very close follower of the Android space, both of the software and the gear. He sent along a note flagging this new smart screen from Acer, as showcased on The Droid Guy blog. The cleverly-named TA272HUL (rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) is a 27-inch monitor with a very …
Digital Signage Proximity Marketing Goes (Very) High Frequency November 4, 2013 by Super User John Kirkpatrick, or JK as he is widely known, has been around this sector forever, having started FRED Systems 20 years ago and selling the pioneering digital signage software system to Mercury Online (which 3M then bought) in the early to mid 2000s. These days he does management consulting and is banging the drum for …
Commoditized: Now You Can Get Interactive Projection Systems For Sub-$500 October 26, 2013 by Super User Gizmodo has a piece up today about a company looking for funding, via Kickstarter, that has largely commoditized the technology used for interactive projection systems. What the company has is intended for the bedrooms of little kids, but Raspberry Pi was intended as a kit to teach schoolkids about computing, and that went in a …
No More Tears For Digital Signage? October 24, 2013 by Super User Bryan Mongeau of BroadSign sent me a note the other day about a new graphics capability announced by Nvidia, suggesting it represented a big opportunity and technology shift for the digital signage sector. The announcement had to do with something called NVIDIA G-Sync – a graphics card enhancement that changes the way display monitors handle the …
MonkeyLectric Puts Very Different Spin On Digital Signage October 13, 2013 by Super User These things are a very different twist on digital signage and I’ve loved them since I first saw a prototype a couple of years back at Infocomm in Orlando. Now the little SF Bay start-up MonkeyLectric is coming off a successful Kickstarter round and going into full production with a pro version. MonkeyLectric puts an …
Pioneer Developing Transparent Tech To Make Digital Signage Work On Shop Windows October 9, 2013 by Super User Japanese electronics firm Pioneer is working on technology – presumably a film overlay – that it suggests dramatically improves the quality of projections in shopfront windows. Pioneer tells Diginfo the brightness and transmittance levels are higher than when using a transparent LCD panels (brightness would not be hard, from what I have seen). The company sees …
Planar Debuts Budget “Simplicity” Display Line September 18, 2013 by Super User I tend to think of Planar Systems operating at the higher end of the LCD display market, but the compoany has just announced a new series of displays aimed more at the entry-level market. The Simplicity series is characterized by narrow-bezels, no brand logos, and some built-in media playback capability. Planar Simplicity Series full-featured digital …
Christie MicroTiles Get Tweaks For New Version September 5, 2013 by Super User It’s been four years, so Christie was about due to upgrade its little MicroTiles display blocks – though the changes are tweaks and not wholesale revisions. The newly announced MicroTiles S310 displays are JUST a bit skinnier at the seams. Featuring the same optical performance and construction as the S300, the Christie MicroTiles S310 screen is …
A $45 Android PC If You Don’t Want Pi September 4, 2013 by Super User There’s now another teeny PC player out there, at the same starter price point as the Raspberry Pi. The CuBox is 2″ by 2″ by 2″ and runs Linux and Android Jelly Bean. For the $45 base price, the CuBox-i has a single-core 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM and a LAN port. You can buy …
Video: The Impending Android Invasion September 4, 2013 by Super User While BroadSign is unabashedly promoting the features, benefits and comparative benefits of its Android digital signage offer versus the dozens of other ones that have popped up in the last two years, it’s also a really good primer for understanding how the Google mobile operating system applies to this sector. The preferred choice for many …
