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Posts Tagged ‘Fun’
Weekend Fun: BMW i: A Window into the Near Future

Weekend Fun: BMW i: A Window into the Near Future

The BMW i Window Into The Near Future digitally transforms passing cars into the all-electric BMW i3 and plug-in hybrid BMW i8 Concept vehicles — and showcases our vision for the future of mobility. The window also calculates...


Weekend Fun: Innovative Christmas Tree using Tablets

Weekend Fun: Innovative Christmas Tree using Tablets

Merry Christmas everyone. I stumbled across an innovative christmas tree made up of 55 Samsung Galaxy Tab 2s and an iPad Mini for the star. MokiMobility created the setup, check it out:



Let’s play ping pong at the traffic light

Let’s play ping pong at the traffic light

This is way too cool. What do you normally do when you’re at a traffic light waiting to cross the road? Stare at the sky? Play with your phone? Look at the person across the road from you? What if I tell you that you can ...


Weekend Fun: How to install a multi touch screen with overlay kit

Weekend Fun: How to install a multi touch screen with overlay kit

Here’s a cool way to install a generic multi touch screen with overlay kit on an existing screen. It’s now cheaper to just purchase a multi-touch screen rather than installing an overlay kit.  



A Fun Digital Signage Experience using Augmented Reality

A Fun Digital Signage Experience using Augmented Reality

Here’s a video of a cool and fun way to engage your viewers. It is using Intel’s AIM Suite and Anonymous Video Analytics. This Intelligent Systems technology assesses the age of the user, chooses an animated charac...


Weekend Fun: Virtual Grocery Stores

Weekend Fun: Virtual Grocery Stores

Looks like Virtual Grocery stores are popping up everywhere especially in at a terminal or at the station. Why? Because people are waiting and to make more use of their time, why not spend it by shopping for your groceries (sho...



Weekend Fun: How to mount a LCD monitor for free using your old CD ROM

Weekend Fun: How to mount a LCD monitor for free using your old CD ROM

For this weekend, I found a pretty geeky video of how to mount a small LCD monitor on your wall using an old CD ROM. It seems to work well but I wouldn’t recommend you do this for a commercial environment. According to th...


Weekend Fun: Digital Signage on Bikes? What the?

I just stumbled across an image of a bike with digital screens. Is this real or is it fake? Here’s the picture: If it is real, here’s a list of my concerns: theft – now it gives thieves more of a reason to ste...



Digital Signage Blog Easter Egg Hunt

Tomorrow (AEST) is the beginning of our long weekend. Given that it’s Easter, we decided to do something very different and fun on our blog. As of tomorrow, 22 August 2011 at 10am (AEST) we will hide a virtual Easter egg ...


Weekend Fun: Smile activated ice cream machine

Here’s another awesome and innovative solution. This weekend we were able to catch up on some fun and stumbled across a video of a smile-activated ice cream machine. Basically it’s a digital signage vending machine ...



Weekend Fun: Kraft Store Kiosk Scans Your Face Then Knows What to Feed It

Weekend Fun: Kraft Store Kiosk Scans Your Face Then Knows What to Feed It

The video that we came across this weekend is titled “Kraft Store Kiosk Scans Your Face Then Knows What to Feed It”. When you look at the video you’ll notice that the interactive software allows users to choos...


Weekend Fun: NOT How to wall mount a Plasma/LCD WITHOUT a bracket!

Weekend Fun: NOT How to wall mount a Plasma/LCD WITHOUT a bracket!

I stumbled across a funny Youtube video titled “How to wall mount a Plasma/LCD WITHOUT a bracket!Exclusive… it really works!!!” Since it’s the weekend, have a look at this video. Lesson learnt, use a bra...



Weekend Fun: How many screens are there in the Shinagawa Station Tokyo tunnel?

I came across a video on youtube called “??? Digital signage Sinagawa Station Tokyo” – I don’t know what the first 3 Japanese Characters are but I think they spelt the name of the station incorrectlyR...


Weekend Fun: Digital Signage and Augmented reality

Weekend Fun: Digital Signage and Augmented reality

This was a video clip that one of our digital signage portal members Travis from Blue Pony submitted in the discussion forum and its about Augmented reality. This blew me away so I thought I’d share this with our digital ...



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Weekend Fun: Can we beat wikipedia in the google search results rankings?

Our http://www.advertiseme.com.au website has been on the first page of the Australian google search result for the term digital signage for many years now. I think just this year, we’ve managed to rank second on the list...