Tenebrous
Posted By Nate ~ 2nd July 2011
tenebrous ? \TEN-uh-brus\ ? adjective
*1 : shut off from the light : dark, murky 2 : hard to understand : obscure 3 : causing gloom
Digital Signage News is never really gloomy, especially when business is booming despite economic turmoil elsewhere. I just like the word tenebrous.
Inwindow Outdoor Hooks up the United States Navy
Inwindow Outdoor has done some very nice installations for storefront-based outdoor advertising. Their latest deployment involves hooking up the United States Navy with some sweet touch screen technology:
“This campaign created for the U.S. Navy represents a significant milestone for our business,” said Steve Birnhak, founder and CEO of Inwindow Outdoor. “We have enjoyed great success creating deeply interactive displays at street-level retail locations in major cities and this is our first significant installation in our mall locations. As is our custom, we have also incorporated technology not before used in a storefront display, allowing mall-goers to interact and truly engage the display.”
The Inwindow install will be used in promoting the “Navy for Moms” campaign.
Curved LCD by NEC
From Slashgear we find that NEC has developed a curved LCD screen. Super cool! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’m like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite, “I love technology!” From the release: 
“The NEC CRV43 curved display provides an excitingly immersive viewing experience for any type of user,” said Keith Yanke, Director of Product Marketing for NEC Display Solutions. “Its lightning-fast response time coupled with its seamless curved screen provides enhanced comfort, decreased frustration and increased productivity. The monitor eliminates the bezel and screen gap issues that have complicated users’ work environment for years.”
The estimated “street” price is around $8k. Unfortunately, I do not think I am that in love with technology.
Manless Booth at Infocomm
InfoComm is in two weeks. And .advancedMethod is ready. In fact, they are so confident, they have decided to have a booth devoid of people. Crazy, but good for marketing hype. Here I am blogging about it!
As Robert Grawet, General Manager of .advancedMethod, says, “Our digital signage system, express, is perfectly capable of doing the talking for us. Not only does digital signage greatly reduce on the printing and shipping costs of traditional signage material; express provides the perfect platform for us to have our voice heard loud and clear!” Through express, the Seattle team is able to create and schedule content ahead of time that explains the company’s various offerings. In addition, .advancedMethod will even offer guests a very special interactive kiosk/video conferencing experience that will put them directly in touch with the team back in Seattle.
The booth will also be made of recycled materials.
Visix Launches New Web Site
Gotta love new site releases. People in the industry just keep morphing, adapting, and creating a better and better product. Some of the sales inquiries we have received lately have included those looking to replace old systems. Luckily, most of the software out there has already been replaced by the company who initially developed it. Websites are no different. From the release:
“Visitors to our web site will experience a much better presentation of the Visix story,” says Sean Matthews, Visix President. “The new design presents our products and services more dynamically, and incorporates subject matter outside of typical marketing copy – information we think our customers can use to make better decisions. Subjects like alert communications, green considerations, return on investment and system planning are included to give visitors more to think about than just technical specifications. We’re really focused on communications solutions, versus just technology sales.”
Great job Visix on the improved look and navigability.
ConnectedSign Goes in at DeVry
The online university at DeVry has chosen ConnectedSign for their digital signage network:
The ConnectedSign solution allows each DeVry campus to manage their own content while global content is available from the top level of the organization. The Enterprise solution has a Grand Poo-bah administrator that can control all things while allowing the local managers to contribute content and changes as needed says Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign President.
DeVry has over 70K students in 93 locations.
