Intel Debuts PC The Size Of SD Card January 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes Intel has announced its Edison development board – what amounts to a Pentium PC the size of an SD card. The Edison board has a low-power 400MHz Intel Quark processor with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This is not something you will trot down to your local Best Buy to grab for $49 or something. …
Ick No More: Bacteria-Killing Touchscreen Glass January 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes Corning is introducing its Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass at CES this week – material embedded with ionic silver to kills the invisible germs that make people want to control touchscreens with their elbows. Gorilla Glass is well established as a damage resistant glass substrate for all kinds of devices, starting with smartphones and scaling up from …
16:9’s Top 10 Posts Of 2013 December 30, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s what Google Analytics tells me are the most read posts of 2013 on Sixteen:Nine. As you will see, there is a very heavy interest in all things cheap and open source, which should offer some worrying clues to anyone who thinks the future of the sector is based around expensive PCs and big dollar …
DSrupted: Technologies That Will Disrupt Digital Signage In 2014 December 23, 2013 by Dave Haynes I define disruptive technology as software, gear and infrastructure that significantly changes how things have long been done and used. Minor disruption is happening all the time in the digital signage space. But I think 2014 will see some major disruption, on a number of fronts. Here’s a rundown of what I see happening (helped …
LG Gets A Very Smart New TV; Will A Smart Sign Follow? December 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
