Projects: KLM’s Trans-Ocean High Five Machine September 4, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice, obviously ruggedized-like-crazy interactive screen project for KLM. Big daylight-readable touchscreens are installed in public plazas in Amsterdam and New York. There’s a live cam feed and audio and the engagement piece has strangers on two continents trying to sync a virtual high five to win freebie airline tickets. [embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”690″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1unCU4Y” …
Lunch at DSrupted September 4, 2014 by Super User If you are planning to go to DSrupted on the 17th, but just haven’t got around to registering, it would be great if you grabbed five minutes and did the deed. Reason: food orders. The caterer needs to know soonest how much champagne and prime rib (OK, bottled water and sandwiches) their team needs to …
MIT Testing New Breed Of Transparent Displays September 4, 2014 by Super User Via Trefor Brock’s blog, here’s some intriguing tech coming out of the MIT labs. This is a polymer film injected with nanoparticles that create single-color visuals on glass, with the longer view to support the primary colors and therefore do proper images. I almost sound smart there. The people in the video explain it all. [embedplusvideo …
RDM Formally Adds NFC-Enabled Content To Neocast Platflorm September 4, 2014 by Super User Real Digital Media has formally announced NFC-enabled content capabilities for its NEOCAST digital signage, a few months after showing the concept at the Digital Signage Expo trade show. Working with iZipline and its MediaTags Platform, RDM’s digital signage network clients can now synchronize on-screen content with brand marketing content to drive instant, dynamic interactions with …
DSrupted Mixer Now A DSF Regional Council Meet & Greet September 3, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has established four DSF Regional Councils – one each in Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis and Toronto – and the DSF Toronto Regional Council is now formally the host of the mixer set for 6:30-9:00 pm Sept. 16th at Shoeless Joe’s Sports Grill in downtown Toronto. The event is the evening before the all day DSrupted conference …
Omnivex Debuts Leaner Version Of Moxie, Aimed At SMB Market September 3, 2014 by Super User Toronto-based Omnivex, one of the oldest digital signage software companies in the game, has tweaked its go to market off to make it easier and more affordable for the small to medium business crowd to opt in on the platform. Omnivex has primarily sold its flagship Moxie product to mid-size and large enterprises, selling on a …
Projects: Horizon Video Wall At Eurostar St Pancras, London September 3, 2014 by Super User The Eurostar ticketing/checkin kiosk area at London’s St. Pancras rail station now has a Mega HD resolution video wall – running a dozen tiled Samsungs, to create a 1080 x 23040 resolution horizon wall. The wall runs on Signagelive, and as the video points out, the software platform is barely breaking a sweat managing a …
US Digital Signage Firm Puts For Sale Post Online September 3, 2014 by Super User Explaining that new management is needed to take the business to the next level, an unnamed West Coast US digital signage company is up for sale, asking price $2.4 million. The listing, on something called BizBuySell, describes the business as “a profitable, well-established and highly-strategic digital signage software and hardware vendor. The Company’s capabilities include …
Pisignage Puts Raspberry Pi Digital Signage On Chrome September 2, 2014 by Super User An Indian company, Ariem Technologies, has launched a digital signage software solution that mashes up a couple of buzz heavy technologies – Google’s Chrome platform and the Raspberry Pi micro PC. is a cloud-based Digital Signage Solution for Small Enterprises. The Signage Player is based on Raspberry Pi, an off-the-shelf credit-card sized Computer. The Cloud …
DSrupted Is Two Weeks Out – Here’s Who’s Coming September 2, 2014 by Super User The first digital signage conference focused just on disruptive technologies is now just a couple of weeks, and if you are still on the fence about attending, here’s a rundown on the companies sending people to DSrupted on Sept. 17th. First, there will be a bunch of people from venue hosts Telus (a big Canadian …
