New H.265 Video Compression Will Be Twice As Efficient as H.264
August 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes
This could be big. The Moving Picture Experts Group (aka MPEG), which has members representing the interests of telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics …
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Gear: Giada’s Super-Skinny $274 PC
August 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes
“Giada” is Italian for “Jade” but that’s about the only tie this mini PC company has to the land of Amarone and bunga bunga …
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Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water
August 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes
As spotted in The Verge: French artist Antonin Fourneau created digital art project last month in the small city of Poitiers that used a …
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Singapore MediaCo Using Digital TV To Drive Digital OOH Bus Stop Network
August 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes
A Singapore media company is using what seems to be a pretty unique way to get content running Digital OOH screens at bus stops …
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Add The iStick To The Sub-$100 PC List
August 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes
A Silicon Valley-based firm called PQ Labs has a new micro PC called the iStick that is about the size of a breakfast snack …
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Wifarer’s Indoor Positioning Goes Live In BC Museum
August 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Victoria, BC-based Wifarer has some nice technology that enables indoor positioning using the WiFi already installed in a venue, and is starting to get …
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Should The Lowly Room For Rent Sign Go Digital?
July 31, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Is an Apartment For Rent sign suddenly more impactful when it is digital, instead of printed on paper or plastic? Big Hmmm. A Toronto …
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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 …
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MIT Tries LCD Layers To Improve Glasses-Free 3D
July 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes
[youtube id=”VJWJMh1PmR4″ width=”610″ height=”343″] Glasses-free 3D, as now presented, kinda, generally sucks. It just doesn’t look great and the visual trickery that’s done using …
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Indoor Atlas Re-Thinks Indoor Positioning
July 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The big problem I have with most digital wayfinding systems is that they show you – with icons or even animated paths – how …
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Skype Gets A Public “Phone Booth”
July 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes
[youtube id=”CFnsHHL8DXM” width=”600″ height=”350″] The advertising model side of this is, I would say, mostly wishful thinking, but nonetheless this thing is kinda clever …
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Italy’s Edisonweb Joins HTML5 Gang
July 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Italian software firm Edisonweb is the latest digital signage player to go HTML5, announcing this week it has done a partner deal to use IAdea’s …
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