Danish Company Adds Tweakable Mood Settings To Art-Based Digital Signage Service April 14, 2018 by Super User A small Danish company has added a new wrinkle to its fine art-based digital signage content platform – tweakable mood settings. ArtPlayer, says a press release, can display artworks and nature pictures based on your selected mood setting: Happy, Sad, Calm, Excited, Awed, Disgusted, Angry or Afraid. This is done using artificial intelligence and advanced …
Research Suggests Buyer Confidence Increasing Numbers Per Site Of Commercial Displays April 13, 2018 by Super User New research is suggesting confidence in the durability of commercial display products will mean the numbers of them will grow, per location, by 20 percent over the next three years. A new report from the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and PMA Research says that growth will happen even though replacement cycles for displays …
New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps April 13, 2018 by Super User The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. The company says while it has for several years supported data integration with third-party platforms, IntuiFace Version 6.2 adds Web Triggers that work with …
For Just $4,000, Get A Digital Signage Market Report From An Industrial Park In Florida April 12, 2018 by Super User This is my regular reminder to anyone looking for market research on the digital signage hardware or software industries – MOST of the research reports out there are garbage. This morning’s Google Alerts scrape of news stories that come up under “digital+signage” has four headlines about market research reports on displays and software. The photo …
DSE 2018 Foot Traffic Back To Recent Year Averages, But End-User Percentage Up April 11, 2018 by Super User After a seemingly slow day two for foot traffic at Digital Signage Expo a couple of weeks ago, I wondered how the trade show organizers were going to spin the post-show attendance story. The numbers are now out, and DSE is touting how buyer attendance was better than ever. Atlanta-based Exponation, which has run the …
16:9 Podcasts – Jenn Vail of E Ink On The Future of E-paper In Digital Signage April 11, 2018 by Super User E-paper has been around for 20-plus years and it has gradually been improving to a point that it makes operating, commercial and visual sense for digital signage applications. There are companies like Slovenia’s Visionect that do a really nice job of making small black and white displays look beautiful for applications that vary from meeting …
How To Screw Up A Digital Signage Deployment. April 10, 2018 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix While costs are certainly coming down, a comprehensive digital signage deployment is still a chunk of change. What a shame to spend all that money and then fumble the project when it comes to getting the system up and running. Unfortunately, that happens far more often than you might think. …
Startup Releases API For Cannabis Tech Companies, Including Digital Signage Solutions April 9, 2018 by Super User Via Pot Network With all of Canada going to legalized cannabis this summer and more U.S. states doing so (California is roughly the same population as Canada) there will be a lot of points of sale and a lot of digital menus and promo displays over the next few years. There’s a whole technology industry, …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Super User Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
The Digital Campus: The Rising Challenge For Education April 9, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose. Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on …