E-reader - Kobo Aura HD.

De e-readers worden steeds mooier en professioneler. De fabrikanten moeten ook wel, want met de tablets hebben de e-book readers een geduchte concurrent gekregen. Een belangrijk nadeel van de e-readers is hun kleine formaat. Kobo neemt dat nadeel weg met jun Kobo Aura HD. Deze heeft een 6.8 inch scherm, zodat deze e-book reader zich kan meten met tablets. Dit scherm heeft een resolutie van niet minder dan 1.440 bij 1.080 pixels. Hierdoor komen de teksten haarscherp op het scherm te staan. Alsof de letters gedrukt zijn!

Dankzij een 4G opslagcapaciteit en een microSD geheugenkaartlezer is er volop ruimte om boeken mee te nemen. En als je toch om leesvoer verlegen zit kun je via WiFi boeken, kranten en tijdschriften downloaden.
Een 1GHz Freescale i.MX507-processor zorgt er voor dat alles soepel werkt op deze e-reader van hoge kwaliteit.




De Kobo Aura HD is vanaf mei 2013 in Nederland te koop. Wie niet kan wachten kan hem al via internet in Amerika bestellen. Hij kost daar 169 dollar.

Digital Billboards Spring to Action to Warn Bostonians.

Bostonians still shaken by Monday's Boston Marathon terror attack awoke this morning to gunshots, explosions and a plethora of emergency messages. With one of the terrorists, identified as Chechen Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in a gunfight with police officers early Friday morning, warnings went out that a massive manhunt was underway for the second terrorist, his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was considered armed and extremely dangerous.



The digital billboards in the area that had been called into action when the bombings occurred were instantly updated this morning with new messaging. According to Jason King, VP, corporate communications for New York-based Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) public safety alerts are being displayed on all seven CCO billboards in Greater Boston, located on I-93 in Medford and Stoneham, and Route 495 in Lawrence.



"Clear Channel Outdoor first established this relationship by reaching out to MEMA to offer assistance during the early February blizzard, which dumped more than two feet of snow in Massachusetts and resulted in a state of emergency being declared," King told us in an email.

"The digital technology allows MEMA to adapt its messages in real-time to changing situations, providing a significant boost to its public safety effort and providing people, especially those with loved ones in the vicinity, with critical information."



Besides making the digital signs available to MEMA at no cost, CCO "is partnering with MEMA to provide access as needed for the duration of this emergency situation," said King.

In addition, Clear Channel also has a relationship with the FBI. According to Ken Klein, vice president of OAAA, the Washington, D.C.-based association representing the out-of-home advertising industry, the industry's relationship with the FBI began in 2007 as an experiment in Philadelphia. After two out of a rotation of nine fugitives were apprehended from Clear Channel digital billboard notices, the FBI realized "they had an idea worth nationalizing," Klein said, adding,  "Since then, 51 fugitives have been apprehended from information generated by digital billboards."

Other partnerships with federal and state agencies, such as a memorandum of understanding with FEMA in 2012, have subsequently taken place and, according to Klein, formed the underpinnings for the spontaneous emergency messaging that we've seen this week in Boston.

"The flexibility and adaptive nature of the digital billboards in Boston for emergency messaging is an outgrowth of partnerships in other situations," said Klein.

Koninklijk dubbelportret in Rotterdam.

Rotterdam verwelkomt het nieuwe staatshoofd, Koning Willem-Alexander, met een levensgroot dubbelportret van Beatrix en Willem-Alexander op de gevel van het 151 meter hoge Nationale-Nederlandengebouw aan het Weena.

Bron;www.sign.nl



Het kunstwerk, een initiatief van Rotterdams LEF en verzekeraar Nationale-Nederlanden, is een geschenk aan het nieuwe staatshoofd. Tegelijkertijd vormt het dubbelportret, dat op grote hoogte boven Rotterdam prijkt, een eerbetoon aan Koningin Beatrix.

Fluorescerend

Kunstenaars Gijs van Bon en Thijs Kelder ontwierpen de opvallende lijntekening van 30 meter breed en ruim 36 meter hoog. Dankzij de felle oranje kleur is het kunstwerk goed zichtbaar boven de stad. Maar ook ’s avonds hebben stad en regio zicht op het grootste Koninklijke dubbelportret ooit gemaakt. In het donker wordt de oranje fluorescerende folie door middel van een animatie spectaculair aangelicht, waardoor je Beatrix langzaam ziet vervagen.
Deze week is door LSB Media vanuit de glazenwassersgondel gestart met de bestickering van het kantoorgebouw om op 30 april een imposante eyecatcher te vormen.

Dual-GPU Video Wall Player Supports 6K Resolution on Six Displays.

NEXCOM's high-end video wall player, NDiS B862, is designed to drive multiple displays for digital-out-of-home (DOOH) applications. The video wall player provides superior graphic performance to display immersive visuals at 6K x 2K resolution on tiled displays. Equipped with six HDMI display outputs, NDiS B862 can seamlessly stretch the image and video across six displays. NDiS B862 also has the durability, the functionality and the right interfaces to ensure long-term operation.

NDiS B862 is based on the dual/quad-core AMD Embedded R-Series APU platform and a dedicated AMD Radeon™ E6760 GPU. Featuring the dual-GPU design, NDiS B862 has dedicated GDDR5 graphics memory, dual-video decoder and DirectX^® 11 support. The video wall player offers accelerated streaming of HD and 3D Blu-ray videos and enables massive display resolution of up to 5760 x 2160 across six displays using AMD Eyefinity technology.

The six displays can be configured in vertical, horizontal orientations and flexible multi-monitor placement to meet video wall setups. To keep installation simple, the NDiS B862 comes with uniform HDMI display output interface and advanced display configuration utility to give engineers a fast and easy way to configure the display matrix. Therefore, NDiS B862 is ideal for graphic-intensive DOOH applications in retail, gaming and entertainment sectors, and mission-critical control rooms requiring real time accuracy and high visibility. NDiS B842, a model with four HDMI display outputs, is also available.

In addition to superb graphics, NDiS B862 is designed for long-term operation. Inside the chassis, a vibration-proof mount is used to house a hard drive and protect it from shock and impact. On each side of the chassis wall, a removable fan module is placed to keep the internals cool and allow easy fan replacement. The fan speed can be automatically adjusted to match the internal temperature, increasing fan life and improving reliability.

NDiS B862, enclosed in a compact, stylish exterior, provides a vast range of interfaces to support LAN/WLAN/WWAN connectivity, television program and audio outputs. The player also provides USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and RS-232 ports for peripheral devices. NDiS B862 has the performance, the functionality and the right interfaces to enrich DOOH applications by large scale displays.

Interacting with a Flexible Screen.

We continue to see people push the boundaries of integrating the digital and physical world. Here’s another example, and very cool. The screen is a flexible silicone surface with projection that responds to touch and depth.



I wonder if they could make the silicone transparent in any way so that the projection comes from beneath, so it won’t interfere with the hands? Regardless, this is just cool to look at.
Found at Creative Applications. Here is the designer’s page.

sony-glass.

Bron: www.fan.tv
Sony komt mogelijk met zijn eigen variant op de Google Glass bril. Dat kunnen we opmaken uit de patentaanvraag van de Japanners.

Het grote verschil tussen beide digitale brillen is dat bij de bril van Sony beide brillenglazen dienst kunnen doen als informatiedisplay. Bij de Google Glass is dat maar bij één glas het geval.
Andere grote verschillen zijn dat de Sony bril is voorzien van oordopjes en van camera's. De aanwezigheid van deze camera's kan betekenen dat de Sony bril actief kan reageren op zijn omgeving.

Creative Outdoor Advertising.

This was in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida on the AutoNation building itself... Saturday night at around 11pm, February 2nd, 2013. It was on repeat too, just incase you caught a glimpse and caught your attention and wanted to see the whole video which lasted about 8mins.



t's the end of an era for South Florida, as the Maroone family name comes down from auto dealerships and the AutoNation corporate name goes up in its place. The country's largest auto retailer announced Thursday that it is rolling out its AutoNation name coast to coast on all stores in its domestic and import divisions, roughly 180 shops in 15 states.

SELFRIDGES USES KINECT TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.

Bron; www.inavateonthenet.net

Selfridges department store in London is well known for its innovative window displays to attract interest and lure customers in off the street. Over the summer of 2012, the store commissioned 8 interactive window displays from Dutch design and creative agency Staat, who use Microsoft’s Kinect sensor in a variety of ways to create some interesting pieces focused on a range of Nike sports wear.

Got Dirty Screens? WHOOSH! Wipes Digital Signage Clean.

WHOOSH! has announced the appointment of Stampede Presentation Products Inc. to serve as a North American distributor of its rapidly expanding commercial and consumer display cleaning product lines.

WHOOSH! Screen Shine is a powerful and natural cleaner that safely cleans, polishes and protects all screens, the company said. For the commercial, industrial and education markets, where digital signage is used, WHOOSH offers a 24-fluid-ounce bottle and a 5-gallon pail.

According to the company, the screen-cleaning product is made with biodegradable surfactants and its proprietary polymers provide a nano-thin invisible coating that provides resistance to fingerprints. WHOOSH! Inc. also sells W! microfiber towels designed for screens to clean, polish and protect display products. Moreover, WHOOSH! products do not contain alcohol, acids, ammonia, chlorine, solvents, petroleum distillates, phosphates or VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds). WHOOSH! is also odorless, streak free, anti-static and water-based.

"Stampede's knowledge of the market, combined with their unsurpassed network of 11,000 dealers, is certain to help us achieve the sales objectives we have in every vertical market, including consumer electronics, corporate, K-12 and higher education," said Jason Greenspan, president of Toronto-based WHOOSH! "They have the unique ability to reach and quickly educate dealers about the unique performance benefits that make WHOOSH! the clear choice for dealers and end-users who are looking for a safe, non-toxic cleaning product to keep all their screens and displays clean and shining like new."

"WHOOSH! provides state-of-the-art, eco-friendly display cleaning solutions that are unlike any other product on the market," added Kevin Kelly, president & COO of Amherst, N.Y.-based Stampede. "Their cost-effective products allow customers to easily keep their displays looking great, as WHOOSH! products provide strong resistance to fingerprints… . By pairing this incredible product line with our extensive knowledge of the ProAV market, we can now make sure that the end-user is getting the best possible performing, environmentally-friendly cleaning solution for their screens and devices."

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control uit Thalmic Labs.

Via je handen,met een armband om, je computer besturen.