DSrupted Mixer Coming Together June 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes Details are still getting firmed up, but it’s looking like there will be a mixer on Sept. 16th, the night before the DSrupted event in Toronto on Sept. 17th. The mixer will be a good networking opportunity ahead of the disruptive technology in digital signage event set for the Telus conference centre in downtown Toronto. …
Low-Cost Retail Wow June 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes I don’t necessarily have a good use-case for these laser-projected keyboard thingies, and I know they’ve been around in one way or another for a couple of years, but I saw this at a Computex booth and thought, “Hmmm… Kinda neat.” The biggest reason I thought it was neat – $55 USD low volume reseller …
Litemax Changes Up LCD Shapes; Goes Square and Super-Wide June 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the booths that grabbed my attention at Computex in Taipei last week was operate by a Taiwanese company called Litemax, which takes regular LCD glass and re-packages it in different shapes. Super-wide LCDs is not new in itself – LG did it years ago – but what struck me here was the range this …
CE labs To Debut Two 4K Digital Signage Players Next Week At Infocomm June 10, 2014 by Dave Haynes There should be quite a bit of 4K on show next week at InfoComm – both on the display side and among the hardware guys that get the signal around and on to screens. CE labs, a loyal 16:9 advertiser, will be at the Las Vegas show and will be showing off a pair of new 4k …
Advantech Walks IoT Talk With Clever Meeting Room System June 10, 2014 by Dave Haynes My last meeting in Taipei was at the impressive new headquarters building of the embedded systems giant Advantech, and I got a nice demo of an impressive meeting room system that walks the company’s talk about a sensor-driven, Internet of Things future. The first thing you notice in the right side of the main lobby …
Thoughts On Nine Days In 12 Time Zones Ahead June 10, 2014 by Dave Haynes If you want a good sense of how this industry is or will be going through massive disruption, seize on the opportunity – like I just did – to go to Asia. You’ll see what happens when everyone has broadband and digital payments are common. You’ll see what happens when 100s of companies are all making …
Digbil Partners With Taiwan Neighbor Viewsonic To Chase Global Digital Signage Business June 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes I had time last Friday, with Paul Flanigan, to head over after to see digbil after our presentations at the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance conference in Taipei. I’d not heard of digbil, at all, until I made some noise that I was coming to Taiwan. They got in touch, and had us over for a …
First Look: E-Ink 32-inch Displays June 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the goals of walking Computex last week in Taiwan (still there, leaving in a few hours) was to see the new 32-inch E-Ink electronic ink displays that were recently announced. The company was set up in what I’d imagine was budget space in a secondary hall at the show (there were at least …
Computex 2014 Gives Glimpse At What’s Coming In Tech June 5, 2014 by Dave Haynes A quick hop on Eva Air and I went from Hong Kong to Taipei today, and pretty much straight over to the huge Computex show that covers at least couple of big facilities in Taiwan’s muggy and (today) wet capital city. Never been. Didn’t know much about it. But I can say it is very big …
