Roundup: As Expected, Lots Of Raspberry Pi In The Digital Signage Oven July 27, 2012 by Dave Haynes The little Raspberry Pi project that is trying to push out a useful computing for $35 has, as expected, attracted attention and activity from the digital signage sector – which is steadily pushed on lowering costs and minimizing footprints. There is now a wiki running on eLinux.org tracking some of the open source and commercial …
3D Display Firms Sign LOI For Acquisition July 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes The consolidation and shakeout on the software side of this sector is also happening on the niche display side. A glasses-free 3D display firm is in the process of acquiring another firm doing the same thing, albeit in different ways. Tulsa-based 3DIcon Corporation, which does volumetric, three-dimensional display technologies, has reached a letter of intent …
He’s Five July 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes Happy 5th birthday to Adrian and the team at DailyDOOH, which I am told is a blog that also provides some coverage and insight about the digital signage sector. Must have a look sometime. ;-] photo credit: neonzu1 via photo pin cc
Transparent LCDs Go Interactive In Clever Test Project July 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes (First spotted in Endadget) The interactive team at Second Story has done some brilliant work with digital displays, most notably the digital towers at the University of Oregon and an interactive wall at the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta. Back in the lab in Portland, they have started putzing around with transparent LCDs and other technology, …
Colombia’s Biggest Digital OOH Player Goes With BroadSign July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes BroadSign has bagged the deal to provide the management and ad targeting platform for Colombia’s biggest digital signage network operator, Enmedio Comunicacion Digital. Enmedio Advertising Networks has screens in more than 830 high-traffic venues across the country, while a corporate business unit has 150 screens running for high-profile companies such as Citibank, Dupont and Coca-Cola. …
LG Gets EzSign TV On Shelves At Fry’s, But Will It Sell? July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes LG is taking a crack at trying to sell a bundled solution out of retail, aimed presumably at the small business crowd that doesn’t know much beyond the basic “want” of a screen running stuff in their venues. The question is whether that crowd – which will tend to be driven by price and oblivious …
Brit Design Students Make Subway Car Ceilings Into Location-Aware Displays July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes PSFK has a post up about British design students who have developed a concept that turns the ceilings of subway cars into location-aware digital displays. Writes PSFK: British design students have created a digital display system for train cars to give riders a view of the outside world they’re passing. The ‘Canopy’ concept uses flexible …
Stratacache Opens Digital Menu Board Experience Center July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes Probably the hottest vertical in the digital signage sector – and for a while now – is digital menu boards. Piles and piles of quick service restaurant operators are cutting over because of operating cost and hassle reductions, and the reliably positive impacts on sales and order sizes. The software company Stratacache has probably won …
Kinetic Exec To Talk Digital OOH Metrics in Webinar July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes Admittedly, my eyes kinda glaze over when I see promos for webinars on Five Keys for This and Critical Strategies for That, but one set for tomorrow has some promise because of the key guy speaking. The Digital Signage Federation’s session, from 2-3 PM Eastern, is on Using Metrics & Analytics to Increase Digital Place-based …
Flanigan Signs On With Pro-Motion Group As VP Comms July 23, 2012 by Dave Haynes Paul Flanigan slipped me the happy news last week that he was signing on with Pro-Motion Technology Group as the company’s VP of Communications. If you are quietly wondering who Pro-Motion is, that’s the point of Paul getting involved. The Detroit-area company describes itself as “the nation’s largest supplier of completely integrated communications solutions” and notes its …
