LCD Or LED? For Digital Signage, It Depends April 6, 2016 by David Kaszycki Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Believe it or not, digital signage is seen each day by over 70% of the population. Research shows that we spend an average of 8 hours per day in front of a screen of some type, including televisions, computers, tablets, smartphones, or increasingly… digital signage. Pretty much everywhere you …
Forget The Rules, Subway Going Ahead With Calorie Counts On Menuboards April 5, 2016 by Super User It’s starting to look like the whole thing about the QSR business going to digital menu boards, because of FDA regulations, is going away. The QSR industry isn’t waiting on rules requiring that its menu-boards show calorie counts. Major operators are just going ahead and doing it. Why that matters is the digital signage business has …
TransitScreen Raises $800K To Chase Real Estate Tech, Smart Cities Business April 5, 2016 by Super User Washington, DC-based startup TransitScreen – which mashes up open source data like transit and traffic conditions as feeds and finished screens – has completed an $800,000 seed capital raise. The money will be used, says the company, to expand sales and product growth in the real estate tech and smart cities verticals. The investors include DC-based …
Seneca Hosting Webinar On New Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Stick PC April 5, 2016 by Super User Custom computer manufacturer Seneca is doing a webinar next week – Thursday, April 14 at 2 – on the little commercial-grade PC on a stick it recently announced. The Syracuse-based company describes the HDS as the first media stick form factor purpose-engineered for professional digital signage. There are lots of Android sticks on the market, …
116,200 Reasons To Not Dismiss Raspberry Pi As A Digital Signage Option April 5, 2016 by Super User Anyone in the digital signage business who shrugs off the interest in low-cost micro PCs and free/freemium software as hobbyists and church IT volunteers, equipped with almost no budget and stubborn natures, should keep these 116,200 things in mind. 116,200 page views, that is. That’s the number of page views on this site, so far, …
Projects: Sephora Switches On Digital-Laden Flash Store In Paris April 4, 2016 by Super User Sephora has opened up a digital-heavy, small footprint shop in Paris that builds screens into the visual environment and uses different interactive tools to let shoppers get at what’s not physically stocked at the location. Developed by one of Sephora’s agencies, called Intangibles, the store near Paris City Hall is just 140 square metres, whereas …
UC View Debuts Raspberry Pi 3-Powered Digital Signage Player April 4, 2016 by Super User I’ve heard widely varied opinions about the ability to run a digital signage application on a Raspberry Pi – the super-cheap UK micro PCs that emerged a few years ago. My general sense is that its applicability owes a lot to what you want to achieve on a screen, in terms of programming. Like most things in …
DSE Reports Slight Upticks In 2016 Attendee, Exhibit Space Numbers April 4, 2016 by Super User The company behind the recent Digital Signage Expo says DSE set new records for attendees and floor space, and also saw a critical bump in the number of end-users walking the aisles. Atlanta-based Exponation says more than 4,100 people attended, from 69 countries, and 45% of them were end-users, up 7% from 2015. The exhibit hall set a …
Clear Is The New Black: Design Considerations for Transparent OLEDs April 4, 2016 by Linda Hofflander Guest Post: Jennifer Davis, Planar Systems Getting the most out of technology often requires learning some new techniques and ideas. When photography was first invented, people would need to stand still for minutes to capture a portrait, instead of the hours it took for a painter. When moving pictures were new, actors had to learn how to …
Check Out These Cool Data Visualizations From Mike Pell April 1, 2016 by Super User Mike Pell of Microsoft was one of the speakers last fall at the DSrupted conference. I was really happy he agreed to speak because he had a lot to say about visualized data needing to be insightful first, and then, possibly, pretty. He’s released a set of visualizations he calls “Datascrapers” that has been inspired by …
