Indoor Atlas Re-Thinks Indoor Positioning July 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes The big problem I have with most digital wayfinding systems is that they show you – with icons or even animated paths – how to get somewhere in a mall, or campus, airport, or purposefully bewildering, we’re-not-letting-you-leave casino-resort. But then you get 50 feet away and forget the directions. GPS can’t typically help because you’re …
Skype Gets A Public “Phone Booth” July 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”CFnsHHL8DXM” width=”600″ height=”350″] The advertising model side of this is, I would say, mostly wishful thinking, but nonetheless this thing is kinda clever and has some possibilities in the right setting. As reported in Digital Signage Today, this is a beta test of a kiosk-like product, almost like a phone booth, but using Skype. …
Italy’s Edisonweb Joins HTML5 Gang July 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes Italian software firm Edisonweb is the latest digital signage player to go HTML5, announcing this week it has done a partner deal to use IAdea’s digital signage media appliances. The company’s Web Signage platform, it says, was the first to be integrated with the cloud-based Windows Azure platform. Edisonweb says using IAdea’s SMIL players allows the company to …
Will Interactive Digital Signage Take A Giant Leap With New Gesture Technology? June 27, 2012 by Dave Haynes Kinect applications for digital signage have left me pretty much cold because of accuracy issues and the necessary learning curve to make things happen. Despite the hype, I just don’t see it. The technology from a startup called Leap Motion is where gesture-driven public signage will go. Leap Motion uses VGA camera sensors to track …
Sightings: Counter Display Scans Pre-made Meals To Show Ingredients, Calories June 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen this before, and think it’s kinda clever in a limited use way. Signio, A Danish digital signage integrator, is working with a food services company, Foodmarket, at Copenhagen’s airport. They have done menu boards, but the interesting bit for me is counter-mounted interactive screens that let people select a sandwich or salad …
More On Those Square LCDs June 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes The German firm EyeVis could, I suppose, be manufacturing its own square LCD tiles, but there is a much greater chance they are re-branding units that Samsung was showing last week. EyeVis also apparently had them there, but I was too busy looking at their crazy-shaped MicroTiles alternatives, called OmniShapes. Samsung is doing such a …
Capital Formally Launches Android Product Bundle June 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes Capital Networks was showing at DSE an Android-based media player for digital signage, and saying it would be out by late spring. Well, it’s late spring and it’s now out. The Audience for Android media player and software bundle is a mash-up that takes much of the capability of Capital’s product and gets it running …
The Touch-y Subject Of Touch Tech For Digital Signage June 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes One of the more interesting sessions I took in at last week’s DisplaySearch conference – ahead of InfoComm – was on emerging interactive technologies. Speaking pretty much faster than I can think, Jennifer Colegrove of DisplaySearch spoke about where the touch industry is at and put up a few slides that nicely reflected why it …
Samsung Turns On Curious New Square LCDs June 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes Samsung’s gigantor booth at InfoComm included a section devoted to a new product with the silky smooth product marketing title of UD22B – Square Type Super-Narrow Bezel Display . Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? We’d be happy to give Samsung some advice, but our last contact with them was a lengthy call with their people trying …
IAdea Debuts Signboard Kits For Digital Signage June 13, 2012 by Dave Haynes You may notice an IAdea banner ad at the top of the page this morning. The company is one of a couple of firms coming on as advertisers this week. I am at InfoComm and stealing some Starbucks wifi before I go to the show, and will have a look at what IAdea has there. …
