Forget Self-Checkout – Amazon Opens Checkout-Free Store In Seattle
December 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes
Amazon has opened what amounts to a neighborhood grocery near its Seattle headquarters that totally eliminates checkouts and cash registers, allowing people to walk …
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Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy
November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes
A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they …
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Amazon Developing What Could Be Called A Home Digital Sign
November 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes
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 …
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What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights?
November 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes
Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED …
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Samsung Buys Harman In $8B Deal
November 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes
Samsung just announced it has acquired Harman International Industries for $8 billion, picking up a company that has multiple brands under its wing, including JBL, …
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Show Me The Way To Go Home, On The Jukebox
September 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes
If you were at a bar, and decided it was time to pull the eject lever and head home, would you whip out your …
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The Path To The Post-Search Era
August 23, 2016 by Viktor Petersson
Guest Post: Kaijus Asteljoki, Valotalive “Why?” That was the question, a good friend asked me recently. “Why do you do what you do? What inspires …
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The Table Stakes of Digital Signage
August 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes
“Table stakes” is an appropriated term from the card table, used in the business world not for poker bet limits, but on what a company needs to …
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Density Debuts New Way To Count, Report And Display Crowds And Lines
August 10, 2016 by Dave Haynes
There’s a podcast episode up today about Density, a San Francisco start-up that has launched a new type of people-counting sensor I think has some interesting …
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The Next Wave Of Interactive Sidewalk Kiosks Will Sniff For Leaks And Log Traffic Jams
July 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes
hat tip to @thegreatgadsby for noticing this … The tech publication Recode has a really interesting post up about how those interactive stations that …
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IoT Meets Digital Signage: July 12th Webinar
June 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes
It was pretty rare for me to patch in to a webinar, let alone run or be part of one – but all of …
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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Viktor Petersson of Screenly
June 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes
Viktor Petersson is kind of “the man” when it comes to making digital signage run on a $45 Raspberry Pi mini PC. For the …
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