Losar Takes Over From YCD Co-Founder Levavi September 22, 2014 by Super User YCD Multimedia got a new CEO as of last week, with U.S. President Sam Losar taking over the top job from company co-founder Noam Levavi, who remains on the board. Levavi co-founded the company in 1999 in Israel and led it for well over a decade. “I’m proud to have collaborated with an amazing team …
Projects: Glenfiddich’s Interactive Malt Whisky Bar September 22, 2014 by Super User The Scottish distiller Glenfiddich extended the experience of a whisky tasting and you of its Speyside plant by setting up a tasting bar inside a century-old library in Bangkok, Thailand. The feature piece is the bar itself, a MultiTaction display from Finland’s MultiTouch. Choose a particular dram of whisky, say a 15-year-old, and put the …
Projects: Interactive Gesture Wall For Sick Kids September 19, 2014 by Super User The Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware has turned on an interactive “Discovery Zone” video wall that works of Kinect2 gesture technology and shows on 45 NEC 46-inch displays. The 50-foot wide by 9-foot tall wall is located in a new atrium area of the hospital. It’s designed to allow up to 30 kids, …
DSrupted Talk: Doug Thompson On Beacons And Engagement September 19, 2014 by Super User Good presentations are almost always big on visuals and light on readable text, and that definitely applies to this presentation by Doug Thompson, done Wednesday for the crowd at DSrupted. As the saying goes, “You really needed to be there.” However, if you didn’t/couldn’t, here’s what Doug has posted o Slideshare. DSrupted attendees already know …
Fall Is Learning Time In Digital Signage September 18, 2014 by Super User Selfishly, I’ve held off making much noise about other conferences and summits going on in the digital signage sector this fall, as I wanted people placing their learning bet on DSrupted. With that over, let’s look at the many events going on in the next few weeks: Next week, it’s the Digital Screenmedia Association’s symposium, called …
Captivate, xAd Announce Cross-Platform Media Buying September 18, 2014 by Super User The elevator screen ad network Captivate has announced a strategic partnership with the ad-targeting firm xAd that will enable media planners to not only buy ad time on those screens, but geo-fenced ads on other screens in the vicinity, like smartphone screens. It’s a move into the whole omni-channel ad-buying thing that people in the …
Via Debuts New Android Box For Digital Signage September 18, 2014 by Super User The Taiwanese chip and PC maker Via has debuted a new Android box tuned to digital signage, interactive kiosks and home automation devices. The VIA ARTiGO A900 has a 1.0GHz dual core VIA Elite E1000 Cortex-A9 SoC with a high-performance 2D/3D graphics and video engine that supports Open GL ES 3.0 hardware acceleration and simultaneous multiple …
DSrupted Is In the Can; Happy Crowd, Happy Organizer September 18, 2014 by Super User It’s a few hours after DSrupted shut down, and I am just a wee bit tired. Forget about detailed coverage on what people said because the host and MC doesn’t get much time to sit and take notes. What I can say about the one-day conference – the first to focus specifically on disruptive tech …
Reminder: DSF Mixer Is Tomorrow Night In Toronto September 15, 2014 by Super User Lauren Taggart from the Digital Signage Federation tells me there are 50+ people already registered for tomorrow night’s mixer in Toronto, and she expects that if things play out as they normally do, more people will just show. The mixer – more formally called the DSF Toronto Night of Networking – runs from 6:30 to …
UCView Adds Raspberry Pi Option To Digital Signage Player Lineup September 11, 2014 by Super User Most of the companies that have introduced digital signage solutions for Raspberry Pi have been start-ups or little teeny existing companies with no marketplace presence. But now we have UCView, a long-running signage software company operating in greater LA, launching what’s called ARM Caster HD, which is powered by Raspberry Pi. Says the company: Known …
