UC View Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support May 26, 2015 by Super User The LA software firm UCView announced last year its support for the initial Raspberry Pi micro PC, and its developers have now followed up with support for the beefier Raspberry Pi 2. The new software is also completely compatible with the original UC View ARM Caster HD (Raspberry Pi 1). The company, via its blog, says the …
DSrupted Update: Two More Speakers Set May 26, 2015 by Super User After a second stretch of busy this year that has me pretty much in a fugue state (though tallboy cans of Shock Top snap me right out of it), I’m having a sufficiently slow week that there’s been time to actually plan. Cool concept. Must do that more. The big focus of planning at the moment is …
Cloud down, so sign down (Updated) May 26, 2015 by Super User Bryan Mongeau, the Vice President of Technology at BroadSign, and a guy who pays a lot of attention to emerging tech, sent along this photo he strayed across online of an ad campaign running on a Times Square LED ad board: Says Bryan: This error is coming from the Azure cloud service, which means someone …
InfoComm: Why I Go May 26, 2015 by Super User I’m starting a series of pre-InfoComm posts about exhibitors and attendees to give readers a sense of what sends people to a steam bath or blast furnace every June. The details are here … Just to illustrate how this works, here’s my profile: 1 – How many years have you been going to InfoComm? The …
InfoComm Profiles: Why Do You Go Or Why Do You Show? May 26, 2015 by Super User I had maybe 20 or so companies take up my offer for free blog love and promotion ahead of DSE in March, the companies answering a set of questions about what attendees should expect to see at their booth. I’m stumped as to why more people wouldn’t take that up, but … Last week I was …
Projects: Interactive Retail Flooring Configurator Bridges Signs And Smartphones May 26, 2015 by Super User This is an interactive flooring selection station for retail that bridges phones and digital signs, from a company called Prendi in Brisbane, Australia. Choices Flooring, Australia’s top flooring retailer, worked with Prendi to develop a custom digital configurator mounted on a purpose-built inspiration wall. The first one was done in 2013 and now the companies are on …
RDM Moves Into New Digs May 22, 2015 by Super User Here’s the new world HQ for Real Digital Media in Sarasota, Florida. Ken Goldberg sent along pix of the building part of the company moved into this week. The company also has developers in nearby St. Petersburg and more technical people over towards Orlando. Ken says the color is key lime pie – which makes sense …
Projects: One World Trade Center’s Digital-Filled Observatory May 22, 2015 by Super User The 102nd floor deck on top of the new World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan – the building that went up next to the footprint of the two towers brought down on 9-11, opens as an observatory next week. It’s a $32 elevator ride to go up and have a look around, but there’s …
Indoor Positioning Using Nothing But LED Lighting May 22, 2015 by Super User This is cool. The lighting division of the tech multinational Philips is testing new technology that enables highly accurate, anonymous indoor location and navigation using nothing but banks of overhead LED lighting to inform a smartphone app. The lighting does the traditional job – illuminating a store – but each LED node has something called …
Third Of Print Firms Globally Plan Digital Signage Solutions Within Year: Survey May 22, 2015 by Super User Some digital signage people I know have suggested the traditional print industry will never get into the digital signage industry because it’s just too different for them. I’ve disagreed, and I’ve not only seen digital signage guys like Tom McGowan go work for printing companies (ColorEdge) but also done advisory work myself for a big …
