Casio Turns On New Countertop Merchandising Displays

November 28, 2012 by Dave Haynes

Casio Computer is getting deeper into the digital signage business (they have been peddling projectors in the space for a while) with a new …

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Pinch Smart Devices For Free-Form Video Clusters

November 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes

I haven’t worked out in my head how this could apply to digital signage, but new software developed by researchers at the Tokyo University of …

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Tokyo’s Narita Airport Invests Big In Digital Signage

June 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes

Mitsubishi has finished the rollout of what it calls “Japan’s largest digital signage system” at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, with some 336 displays fixed …

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Photo: W3C Web-based Signage Event in Japan

June 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes

This is the angry mob that met this week in Japan to talk about standards for web-based digital signage. John Wang of IAdea attended …

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Web’s Open Standards Body Taking Detailed Look At Digital Signage

June 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes

The body that somewhat guides the development of open standards for the web is taking a serious look at web-based digital signage, and running …

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Support “A Million Hearts To Japan”

March 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes

[youtube id=”nxTEkSFPius” width=”600″ height=”350″] Neil van Wouw is the transplanted Canadian in Japan who, for the past year, has been working tirelessly to keep …

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Japanese Vending Machine Tests Transparent LCDs, Video Analytics

December 16, 2011 by Dave Haynes

[youtube id=”8pPCIPHTe3M” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Japanese tech news site DigInfo TV has a post and video up about a concept involving a transparent LCD, …

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Micro-documentaries to tell Japan's rebuilding story on digital networks

June 1, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Neil van Wouw is an ex-patriate Canadian who has lived and worked for many years in Japan, and was in Tokyo the day the …

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DOOHgood: Help the US tornado victims by running Red Cross spots

May 24, 2011 by Dave Haynes

The mind-boggling visuals that have rolled in from Joplin, Missouri in the aftermath of Sunday’s EF-5 tornado hit was enough to get DOOHgood into …

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Sightings: Using audience analytics to drive restaurant traffic

August 26, 2010 by Dave Haynes

TechCrunch flagged a demo of digital signage by Japanese telecom giant NTT that shows some different possibilities for biometrics as they relate to screens. …

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