DSrupted 2014: Doug Thompson On BLE Beacons And IOT May 30, 2014 by Dave Haynes Doug Thompson has signed on as a speaker for DSrupted, the first conference to put the full focus on how disruptive technologies affect the way digital signage networks are conceived, operated and managed. Since Apple announced its iBeacons last year I’ve seen and read kinds of stuff about the potential for sensors and transmitters in …
ComQi Debuts Highly Tweakable Local Digital Signage Messaging Manager May 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes Providing browser access to local managers to fill in web forms or fiddle with a pre-baked template is pretty standard fare in the digital signage industry these days, but ComQi has announced a new version of its own set of tools for that task, and it’s beefier than what else I’ve seen demo’d here, there and …
LG Going Big And Curvy Next Week At SID May 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes Flat panel display can’t get a whole lot bigger, but they keep getting thinner, lighter, brighter, sharper and, ummm, curvier. LG Display, for example, will be showing off a series of new displays at the big Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2014 show next week at the San Diego Convention Center. The company …
Get A Free Guide On The Awesome World Of Projection Mapping May 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes Christie Digital has released its second coffee table-style book celebrating display technology, this new one focused on the awesome world of projection mapping. The Book of Transformations is a free collection of stories, images and videos showing how projection mapping transforms storytelling and takes content outside of the traditional canvas and digital screen. The primer …
Conductive Ink Makes Analog Posters Interactive May 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes How about a traditional advertising poster going interactive, without adding a screen? That’s what the brewer Beck’s has had up in cities around New Zealand this month – print posters that have conductive ink and speakers, making them playable as part of a music promotion. Described as the world’s first Playable Posters, the street-level ads …
UK Sign Prototype Bridges Analog And Digital May 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes Pixel Track from Berg on Vimeo. A British company called Berg is testing prototypes of a system that bridges analog and digital signage, using a system similar to the sort of cool, old-school arrivals and departures flipboards you see in some airports and rail stations. The PixelTrack system is set up like a horizontal track, …
BrightSign’s New 4K Player Makes 4K In Digital Signage Viable May 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes I have seen a lot of airports lately and it gets ugly in a week, so I am still noodling whether I will go to InfoComm, or skip it for the first time in forever. If I do go, one of the things I’ll make a bee-line to see is BrightSign’s solid-taste 4K media player. …
First Look: Oakley’s Ambient Ceiling in NYC 5th Ave Store May 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes I was in New York for a couple of days this week and made it something of a mission to get up to 5th Avenue and 46th Street to see what Montreal’s Moment Factory creative shop did with Oakley’s store on that high-end shopping strip. I wrote about recently, and ran some provided photos, but …
Navori Ports Android Player To NEC’s Slot-Loaded ARM Box May 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Swiss software company Navori has had an Android version of its digital signage platform on the market for the last 18 months or so, but on its own elected devices. Now the company has created an image for the software that runs on NEC’s Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) media players for Android that was launched at …
A Sub-$700 49-inch Android Smart Panel (Sadly Just Available In China) May 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes Bryan Mongeau, VP Technology at BroadSign, keeps one eye on the Asian flat panel display market, looking for “smart” displays with sufficient horsepower to fully apply to the digital signage space. His latest is from a Chinese startup called Xiaomi, which you may have heard of if you pay attention to the smartphone market. The …
