If Content is King, Power is God

August 11, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Walmart Smart Network endcap. No power or dead unit. It happens. But it really can’t in retail or anywhere else. Pic from reader

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Japanese vending machines use video analytics to make drink recommendations

August 10, 2010 by Dave Haynes

If I ever squirted out of the rail car at a stop on the JR East transport system in Japan, I doubt anything would …

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NASCAR Hall of Fame fan board lit up with 250-plus of Christie's MicroTiles

August 5, 2010 by Dave Haynes

(Disclosure: I do some writing for Christie, and prepared a case study on this project) One of the first BIG projects to come along …

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NEC joins the stretched screen crowd

August 5, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Someone will correct me, undoubtedly, but as far as I know LG was the first display manufacturer to come out with a monitor that …

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And the point of this is … is … umm …

July 29, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Akihabara News is reporting a new Hitachi gesture technology that the Japanese electronics giant thinks has a role in several sectors one day, including …

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Nice many-many tiled display in Austrian club

July 28, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Montreal-based Matrox has put out a case study about an impressive install at a club in Linz, Austria. In a nutshell, 40 big flat …

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Kroger's digital coupon offer improves bargain-buying, but …

July 27, 2010 by Dave Haynes

US grocer Kroger has introduced a digital coupon system that appears to make that whole exercise a lot easier and more interesting. Instead of …

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Digital signage for queues controlled by dead-simple touch UI

July 26, 2010 by Dave Haynes

The queue management systems business seems really well suited to bolting digital signage on to the offers, since you have people in lines or …

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AR app brings old street life back in London

July 21, 2010 by Dave Haynes

I struggle, a little, with the notion of many of us walking the streets and corridors of our daily lives with smartphones in front …

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Enough with the Minority Report references …

July 20, 2010 by Dave Haynes

I have been thinking about a digital signage drinking game in which every time I read a story about face counting technology that mentions …

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Rare street-level interactive sighting in Canada

July 19, 2010 by Dave Haynes

There has been very little interactive street-level stuff done in Canada so far, which I find a little baffling. But now and then stuff …

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Audience counting gets a yappy new advocate in Mark Cuban

July 19, 2010 by Dave Haynes

I just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture …

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