An Oakland, California start-up called Next Thing is touting a new single board computer that makes the $35 Raspberry Pi seem expensive. The Chip will, by comparison, cost $9. Yup. […]
The little Intel NUC seems to have generated a lot of traction as s signage player, as I often hear from vendors how they are using the little boxes. […]
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This seems slightly odd. Samsung has put a huge amount of effort and resources into marketing the features and benefits of its Smart Signage platform, but has joined a collaborative program that is built around an external device that negates the need for the smarts in the sign. […]
Stratacache has hired a guy named Dan Williams to lead its business development efforts in the QSR sector. Why that’s interesting is that Williams was at McDonald’s for 20 years and was the head of Digital and Print Menu Boards there, so he knows as much or more about the business case and logic for or against digital menus in QSR than anyone on the planet. […]
MVP Interactive is doing a fan activation thing with pro hockey’s New York Rangers – using interactive screens that allow even little kids to get their playoff beard on. Fans can instantly grow their own beard based off a current player’s unique and personal styled beard and long hockey hair. […]
Spotted a pair of digital vending machines at a Delta concourse at SFO. I know the concept or tech is not new, but it was the first time I’ve seen a vending unit in North America that wasn’t specific to a brand, ie Coke. Again, I’m sure they’ve been around for a while, but a first for me. […]
Capabilities and reliability of Android players have simply not matched the promise of the hype. Trucks have been rolled to manually reset hung players. Others players are rebooted daily to “resolve” memory leaks. […]
Apparel retailer Diesel opened a flagship store in Rome last fall that included an entry area dominated by an immersive video wall running content from a German digital artist. The abstract digital display, reports GDR UK, “draws from geographical data taken from maps of Rome. Its colour, growth and movement is based upon the use of #rome and #POSTroma across online sites. […]
The best of intentions, but not the best follow-through meant I registered to go see Samsung Canada‘s new executive briefing centre in suburban Toronto yesterday, but never actually got away from world HQ. Stupid-busy. But Computer Dealer News has a post up that includes numerous pix of the new digs in Mississauga. […]
It seems like all the display guys are branching out lately. First it was software and now display types. You may think of Atlanta-based NanoLumens as a company squarely in the business of making lightweight, skinny and modular LED displays, but now they’ve announced a clear transparent surface you’d liken to 3M’s Vikuiti film surfaces. […]
When I watched a video a couple of months back about a corporate communications digital signage program in the customer contact center at Blinds.com, the first words out of my mouth were: “That’s <naughty word> brilliant. […]
If you have sold digital signage solutions at all, you have undoubtedly come across clients – particularly brands, their field marketing agencies, and events companies – who didn’t want to buy your stuff. They wanted to rent it. Because they didn’t need it for long. […]
Big thank you to Freshwater Digital Media Partners in Craft Beer Heaven, aka Grand Rapids, Michigan, for this new DOOHgood video PSA for raising awareness and relief funds for Nepal. You can download and use it with no strings attached on your out of home, retail or corporate network. […]
The entry-level software options keep coming for digital signage – even though it is very easily argued supply vs demand thing went way off kilter years ago. The latest entrant in this crowded field is The TV Sign, a new Android-driven, browser-based CMS out of Erie, PA, just west of Buffalo, NY. […]
