The giant consumer-focused tech trade show CES is next week in Las Vegas, and there will be all kinds of digital signage and pro ... […]
Videotel Digital – DSE Booth Number 2244 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? […]
I’m a total sucker for flip disc displays – electro-mechanical signs that rapidly flip through a succession of characters to convey information in a way that’s old school cool, and kind of hypnotic. The tech is not new. These sorts of signs have been in airports and rail stations since the ’60s. […]
ViewSonic is known almost entirely as an LCD monitor company, but it will soon start shipping a Chromebox aimed at the education and digital signage markets. The ViewSonic NMP660 Chromebox is touted as something that can be paired with the company’s ViewBoard interactive flat panel displays or any ViewSonic professional display. […]
I spotted this video on Linkedin – a hologram projection thingie touted as being part of the restaurant of the future. […]
New version releases of signage gear don’t tend to get me too excited, but given the volume and breadth of BrightSign’s player business – and the number of software companies now integrating to their little purple boxes – it’s worth noting that a set of new units will have their debut next week at ISE. […]
GUEST POST: Luis Villafane, MALER I have been running digital signage hardware since 2001, and over all that time I’ve only found a handful of devices I’d call “The Chosen Ones” – gear I was comfortable putting in production environments. […]
Note: Not a shot from the Ohio drug chain. LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies continues to find clients that get excited about its technology that shows consumer floating products in mid-air, as a carrot to get shoppers to use a coupon center. The company has announced a deal to put its proprietary 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores around Ohio. […]
Here’s an interesting little digital signage/NFC technical demo that UK-based CMS provider Screenly put together for its presence with Ubuntu and Evrything at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It shows how a store that already has display infrastructure in place, and already uses NFC on its clothing tags, could make a merchandising screen particularly useful. […]
Via Engadget Taiwanese computer maker Asus has released a sub $70 single board computer – called the Tinker Board – that should be beefy enough to run 4K video and get the attention of the crowd using Raspberry Pis as digital signage players. […]
Rob Suffoletta from Seneca came up to Toronto from Buffalo last week for some meetings and to catch the DSE mixer. We pre-gamed a beer before the actual mixer, and he pulled a gadget out of his briefcase he wanted to show me. […]
Amazon is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a 7-inch screen, reports Bloomberg, that could function, among other things, as something of a home-based digital sign. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage I don´t like “feel good” business stories when I’m reading social media. I don’t want to read something that starts out with “Before you die … live” or “What I learned from my hard-working dad …” Put that stuff up, and you’re unfollowed by me pretty quickly. […]
Guest Post: Jami McGraw, Seneca Jami McGraw Perhaps the biggest attraction of shrinking a regular PC down to a tiny, candy bar-sized stick can be summed up in one word: clutter. A computer on an HDMI stick can plug into a port on the back of a desktop display or digital signage screen, and disappear. It’s clutter-free, and for a lot of jobs, seemingly an ideal solution. […]
I don’t have the technical background to say this is indicative of anything, but my test so far of the little Asus Chromebit as a simple signage player has been positive. The little $85 Google-approved HDMI stick I bought has been running on a spare screen at World Headquarters/spare bedroom for eight months, and it just keeps ticking along. […]
