Japanese company runs big multi-touch display running Android OS

July 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes

The Japanese company SKR Technology has developed a demo multi-touch system that runs the Android on a 32? display – another sign that the …

Android, Gear, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

How long 'til the virtual assistant gets drifted by a real shopper?

July 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes

So how long before someone wanders in off the streets of New York and sucker-punches Duane Reade’s “virtual assistant” inside its new flagship store? …

Gear, PROJECTS, retail, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

Sightings: Interactive product locator in Canadian Tire

June 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes

I have known the guys at Toronto-based Jibestream for more than a year and (disclosure) done some work with them here and there. They …

BUSINESS, Gear, News, PROJECTS, retail, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

Quebec's Desjardins bank deploys staff-facing digital signage dashboard solution

June 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Banks have long been seen as a primary application for customer-facing digital signage, and indeed a lot of banks are either now installed or …

BUSINESS, News, PROJECTS, retail, Sightings

Sighting: Oregon college Cascades its interactive digital signage

June 23, 2011 by Dave Haynes

  I really like a combined interactive installation put together for the University of Oregon’s Ford Alumni Center in Eugene – as it makes …

Gear, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

InfoComm follow-up: Salitek's 16 by 4 video wall

June 20, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Video walls, I both heard and saw, are big business at the moment for the AV crowd that packed InfoComm last week. There were …

BUSINESS, Events, Gear, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

InfoComm 2011 Wrap-up

June 20, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Back at world HQ, where it is 20 degrees F cooler and my thoughts extend beyond sources of water and/or beer. Orlando did not …

BUSINESS, Events, Gear, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

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Omnishapes introduces hexagonal displays for shaped video walls

June 15, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Christie and Prysm have a new competitor in the video building blocks space – a German company called Eyevis that has launched a new …

BUSINESS, Gear, News, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

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Digital signage deployments get Zinger of a franchise model

June 9, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Google Alerts popped up a notice on a news release recently about what was described as the “first digital signage franchise providing a “one-vendor” …

Gear, Newcomers, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

28-screen cluster to add visual Digital OOH pop in Swiss mall

June 6, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Malls are such big, cavernous spaces that any digital visual elements are challenged just to be noticed. I have seen some mall installations that …

PROJECTS, retail, Sightings

Interactive outdoor LED gets Swedes playing Pong with smartphones

June 6, 2011 by Dave Haynes

This is pretty clever. McDonald’s in Sweden is running an interactive outdoor program in Stockholm that lets people within eyesight of a big LED …

PROJECTS, Sightings

Tenants like new building's digital wall so much they're negotiating screen time

May 31, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Here’s an impressive multimedia video wall installation in the lobby of a Seattle building owned, but apparently not occupied, by Starbucks. The visual effort …

Gear, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY