TargetR Now Has Both Android & Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Options August 22, 2013 by Super User The UK digital signage software firm TargetR now has platforms support both Android and Raspberry Pi, as well as standard PCs. TargetR’s new Raspberry Pi player uses the same underlying core player components from the Android Player software and in hooked into the company’s cloud-based platform. They’ve done that by adapting the player core and …
RevelDigital Releases 2nd-Gen Android Digital Signage Offer August 17, 2013 by Super User Android digital signage products have now been on the scene long enough that we’re staring to see 2nd generation products hit the market. Capital Networks released theirs recently, and now Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital has announced a new version of its hardware/software offer. RevelDigital says the new version is the result of customer feedback and working …
Haptix, Ubi Add New Possibilities For Touchless Touch In Digital Signage August 15, 2013 by Super User There’s a couple of new entrants in the emerging field of touchless touchscreens – with two very different approaches. One is hardware that has similarities to the Leap Motion, while the other is software working with Kinect. Haptix The hardware piece is from a San Francisco start-up called Haptix, and is based on software and …
Signagelive Works Smart Signage Deal With Ingram August 12, 2013 by Super User Signagelive is the latest digital signage software company to take a crack at getting its offer marketed through distribution giant Ingram Micro. The UK-based company now has a distribution agreement with Ingram, described as “the world’s largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions.” This is …
Silver Curve’s Crowdfunding Raise Two-Thirds Subscribed August 12, 2013 by Super User Companies in this sector that are looking for start-up capital will be interested in the progress of a crowd-funding effort by Silver Curve, a UK start-up that has developed a graphics engine that makes the very low cost Raspberry Pi a viable digital signage media player. The company put 20% equity up in the company …
Can The Leap Motion Make A Touchless Touch Screen? August 7, 2013 by Super User The very cute little Leap Motion gesture device showed up via the post yesterday, and I had some time this morning and then this afternoon to download the software, plug the thing in, and see what it could do. For the unfamiliar, the Leap Motion is a gesture sensor that creates an infrared field in …
Research Team Adds Touch Overlay To Print Poster; Makes Interactive July 30, 2013 by Super User The conventional wisdom is that digital will continue to inexorably replace paper signage, but a research team in the UK has come with something like a hybrid. They’ve made paper interactive. As PSFK reports: Novalia is a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from the UK – all of whom are interested in turning paper into …
Scala, Outform Release Android Digital Signage Solution July 25, 2013 by Super User Software company Scala and Miami-based display integrator Outform have joined the now long list of companies that have put Android digital signage offers on the market. In this case, an Outform iDisplay media player is running Android in combination with Scala’s Enterprise software. Says a release: iDISPLAY’s Model UID0382 Media Player has been specifically designed …
Silver Curve Puts More Light On Its Aperture Digital Signage Engine For Raspberry Pi July 12, 2013 by Super User An ongoing client project has me back in Johannesburg again, and this time I went through London, which gave me a sufficiently long layover that I was able to run into the city. I did a meeting (honest) at a pub and then headed over to Regent Street to the packaged office space where Silver …
Webconverger’s Neon Uses Stable, Secure Browser As Digital Sign Platform July 10, 2013 by Super User I was in the middle of one of those sessions online where you start in one direction and then make a whole bunch of left turns and end up somewhere completely different, and came across some narrative about the little Raspberry Pi micro PCs, digital signage and a company called Webconverger. That was an unfamiliar …
