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Weekend Fun: Digital Signage on Bikes? What the?

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:09:27 +0000

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 steal your bike… they now will get a free screen
what happens if it rain? is it a waterproof screen?
what happens if there’s a strong wind? will the bike fall?
will pedalling generate more electricity for the battery to run the screens?
safety – if the screens draw too much attention to drivers will it cause accidents?

I must give it to the company or engineers that came up with this idea… but to be honest this digital signage implementation is not my cup of tea.

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Post tags: Accidents, Bikes, Cup Of Tea, digital signage, Electricity, Fun, Images, Img, Lt, Ly, Photos, Rain, screens, Signage Implementation, Strong Wind, Thieves

Digital Signage Blog Easter Egg Hunt

DigitalSignageBlog — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:25:30 +0000

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 (just a picture) on a particular post. You will need to find this post and the virtual Easter egg and place a comment “Happy Easter digital signage blog!”. The first person to do this will receive a free advertising tile on the right hand side of the digital signage blog sidebar for 12 months. Obviously, the image on the tile will need to be reviewed and approved by us.

Happy Easter everyone!

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Weekend Fun: Smile activated ice cream machine

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:00:27 +0000

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 that uses facial recognition to capture and measure your smile 15 times a second which determines the age and gender and – if you smile big enough – rewards you with ice cream. You can even upload and share your smile-for-free-ice-cream picture on Facebook. Just watching the video makes me smile. It will be anytime soon that we’ll soon see one here in Australia.

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Post tags: australia, digital signage, Facebook, Facial Recognition, Frameborder, Free Ice Cream, Free Picture, Fun, Ice Machine, Innovative Solution, Lt, Nbsp, Smile, Unilever, Vending Machine, Youtube Video Player

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

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:17:53 +0000

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 choose food recipes based on items on the shopping list. For some reason I really like the design of the interface and I like the way you can add items to your mobile phone. The really good twist to the solution is the ability to receive a free sample to feel and taste the experience – how awesome is that!!!

Also from an interesting and engaging point of view there’s an opportunity for people to build a “bubble head” that uses a camera to capture the face of person standing in front of the system and uses it for entertainment purposes. We’ll here’s the video:

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Post tags: Entertainment Purposes, Face, Face Standing, Food Recipes, Free Sample, Fun, Interactive Software, Interface, Kiosk, Kraft, Mobile Phone, Opportunity, People, Point Of View, Shopping List, Software Allows Users

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

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:14:57 +0000

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 bracket and a professional to mount a LCD or Plasma screen. Once the screen is dropped…. it will never be the same.

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Post tags: Fun, Funny Video, lcd screen, Plasma Lcd, plasma screen, Video Lesson, Video Title, video wall, Youtube Video

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

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:32:03 +0000

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 incorrectly…

Anyways, the first 1 1/2 minute of the video is quite boring so if you are going to watch the video make sure you start from 1:30. From there it get’s interesting and I was amazed to see the number of screen located in the tunnel. I did a quick count and if my maths is correct there was 44 screens just in the tunnel – geezzz that’s a lot of screens in the space of a few meters. Keep in mind that this must be a high traffic area so there’s $$$$$ revenue for advertising. Great work for whoever came up with this implementation.

Oh and he’s the video if you want to watch it… the end is quite boring as well.

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Post tags: digital signage, Fun, Implementation, Japanese Characters, Lot, Maths, Quick Count, screens, Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Traffic Area

Weekend Fun: Digital Signage and Augmented reality

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:12:36 +0000

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 signage blog readers so have a look at it yourself and let me know what you think.

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

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:45:28 +0000

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 (minus the sponsored links).

If you don’t believe us follow these steps:

1. Clean your cache and temporary files
2. Go to www.google.com.au
3. Enter the term digital signage
4. Look at the second search result – we should be listed there
5. Click on our website and you’ll see what we’ve done to our website for the natural Search Engine Optimisation

Here’s a pic of what we see:

You can confirm this yourself if you don’t believe us.

Now as you can clearly see wikipedia is at the top of the listing. I was wondering this weekened whether there was any ways of getting our website to the top and beat wikipedia… anyone have any ideas?

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Weekend Fun: Human LCD Screen

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:16:40 +0000

This one is a new one for me but seems like it’s an oldie. It’s amazing what humans can achieve when they all work together. This is almost as good as the countdown at the 2009 Olympics in Beijing.

Some viewers are skeptical as to whether the video is real or not but to me it looks real. Too bad it doesn’t have subtitles. Anyone know what they are saying?

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Post tags: Beijing, Countdown, Fun, lcd screen, Oldie, olympics

Weekend fun: Blackberry advertising on the iphone

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:09:32 +0000

This weekend my son my playing on my brothers Iphone and guess what I saw… a blackberry advertisement for the app world. I found it strange and funny that the Iphone application doodle was actually displaying an advertisement for it’s competitor Research In Motion. I decided to take a photo of it on my Blackberry just to share it with everyone since it was quite amusing.

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Post tags: Advertisement, advertising, blackberry, Competitor Research, Fun, Funny, Guess, iphone, Photo, research in motion

Weekend Fun: Checking out the Blackberry OS 6

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:00:43 +0000

This weekend we decided to look at the upcoming OS 6 version of the Blackberry and we were quite excited to see some of the amazing features. Also have a read of the comments of the video if you get a chance as its quite amusing. Also, I hope this version of the OS fixes some of the issues with the system memory – applications use system memory so I cannot install that many apps with only 256MB on the Storm.

So what do you think about the blackberry OS 6 video?

We’d love to hear your thoughts below.

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Post tags: Apps, blackberry, Fun, Love, Memory Applications, Os 6, Os Version, Soe, System Memory

Weekend Fun: Microsoft Surface research

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:21:39 +0000

Due to the hype coming from the media in the last couple of weeks, we decided to further research about the Microsoft Surface. The unit was first announced in May 2007 and the first unit was sold in Australia this month. Apparently the unit costs $20,000 (ouch).

The Microsoft Surface is a table-like display that is multi-touch. Basically responds to touch, natural hand gestures and placement of real-world objects which includes digital cameras, mobile phones and even business cards (I’m not sure how it would work with the business card).

Here’s a video of how it can be used:

Have you tested the Microsoft Surface? We would love to hear what you think about the unit. If you have one of these unit in Australia, we’ll love to have a look at it.

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Post tags: australia, Business Card, Business Cards, Digital Cameras, Fun, Further Research, Hype, Love, microsoft, Microsoft Research, microsoft surface, mobile phones, Natural Hand Gestures, Real World, Surface Research

Weekend Fun: Wonder Wheel for digital signage

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:03:08 +0000

This weekend I decided to play around with the google search features and stumbled across the “Wonder Wheel”. So what I did was I typed the search term “digital signage” in the google search bar. Google displayed the most relevant websites related to this search term, in Australia our advertise me and Digital Signage portal are on the 1st page and we’re pretty happy about this result.

Anyways, I clicked on Show Option at the top left hand corner above the first search result and it displayed several other options available. I clicked on Wonder Wheel and Google displayed this:

The google wonder wheel was released in May 2009 and basically displays relevant and related search results. In my particular example, the search results relating to digital signage where:
digital signage jobs
digital signage blogs
digital signage freeware
digital signage software
digital signage player
digital signage solutions
outdoor digital signage
digital signage download

So out of curiosity, I clicked on the term digital signage blog and we were’t surprised that this very blog was listed at the top of the results. What also happened was the wheel expanded to show another wheel. This is an interesting concept and it’s something that everyone should be aware of.

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Post tags: advertise, australia, Blogs, Curiosity, digital signage, digital signage player, Digital Signage Software, Digital Signage Solutions, Freeware Software, Fun, Google, Google Search Bar, Jobs, Left Hand Corner, Outdoor Signage, Poll Id, portal, Relevant Websites, Search Features, Search Google, Search Result, Wheel, Wonder Wheel

Weekend Fun: Cleaning up our spam comments

DigitalSignageBlog — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:30:04 +0000

Besides the hot and then rainy weather in Sydney Australia, we thought we’d do something crazy and clean up our spammed comments since it was taking up a considerable amount of space in our database. We had 23,123 comments marked as spam since the beginning of last year and most of them were not relating to digital signage. The process of cleaning up this spammed comments in WordPress isn’t as straight forward as I thought it would be. Under the Edit Comments section there is a button called “Empty Spam”. Obviously I want to empty these comments so when I click on the button the process seems to time out… probably due to the number of spam comments. I basically end up getting a white page after about 40 seconds. When I logged back in to see how many spam comments were removed, the system somehow managed to remove about 1000 comments before it timed out – that’s what I’m guessing happened. If you do the maths, I had to do this about 20 times and I also just calculated that the ratio of the number of post to the number of spam comments is approximately 1:107 – this is a large number?

So, to avoid this in future we will aim to remove spam comments on a monthly basis and please… don’t spam our digital signage blog. We have noticed several businesses adding their website links in their comments, although we don’t prevent you from doing so or added a plugin feature to automatically remove these, it does look a “bit” obvious on what you’re trying to do.

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Weekend Fun: Intel Digital Signage Great concept but not the acting

DigitalSignageBlog — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:11:39 +0000

There seems to be quite a hype about Intels latest technology and I can see why. Have a look at this video and read some of the comments.

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Post tags: Acting, digital signage, Fun, Hype, Intel, Latest Technology

Weekend Fun: Digital Signage and the Audi A4 Convertible

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:27 +0000

This week we had the opportunity to drive the Audi A4 convertible and we realised how most luxury cars or new model cars will have LCD screens. These are the perfect opportunities to utilise these screens for digital signage and I wonder how many car manufacturing companies are actually thinking about this.

As you can tell from the picture, the Audi has a reasonable sized build-in LCD screen and is primarily used for GPS and as a menu system for radio/CD/TV but I strongly believe it can be also used for digital signage.

Does anyone know of any stock cars which are using digital signage?

Feel free to submit your answer as a comment.

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Post tags: Audi, Audi A4, Audi Convertible, Dashboard, Digital Id, digital signage, Fun, GPS, lcd screen, lcd screens, Luxury Cars, Manufacturing Companies, Menu System, Model Cars, New Model, Opportunity, Radio Cd, Realised, Stock Cars

Weekend Fun: When digital signage goes wrong, do you rely on Windows or Linux?

Danny Hsueh — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:40:06 +0000

Coincidently on my third trip back to Melbourne for a digital signage project rollout, I came across something that is too familiar to me.

Almost 9 out of 10 times when digital signage goes wrong through my observations, they are running Windows. There is no perfect system out there regardless what hardware, operating system, or configuration you may have, but according to Murphy’s Law, when something does go wrong how do control it? Does your software allow you to show an exception or alternate display?

Weirdly enough, these observations have now become second nature to me, whereby I notice all other people would just walk right past it. Not to mention the urge for me to take out my blackberry to snap it.

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Post tags: 9 Out Of 10, blackberry, chadstone, Coincidently, Control, digital signage, Fun, Hardware Configuration, Linux, Melbourne, Murphy S Law, operating system, Perfect System, Second Nature, Signage Project, Urge, Windows Linux

Weekend Fun or NOT: Displaying incorrect Facebook Events date

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:26:51 +0000

This weekend we almost missed an important event that was created and organised through the facebook events application. For some reason, the event displayed the correct date on the Facebook website, but on the iphone and the blackberry it showed the incorrect date (using the mobile application) – the reminders were not triggered because of this issue. My guess is that there is probably an issue related to the timezone (ie Australia). Does anyone else have the same issue?

If you’re integrating facebook with your digital signage application and are displaying events just make sure you check and test that the dates are displaying correctly before publishing this to the screens.

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Post tags: australia, blackberry, digital signage, Events Application, Fun, Guess, Important Event, iphone, Mobile Application, Reminders, screens, Timezone

Weekend Fun: Blackberry Desktop Manager V5.0.1 – IP modem

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:35:25 +0000

What a fun weekend!! Just recently RIM released the desktop manager v5.0.1 which introduces the feature to EASILY setup the Blackberry as an IP modem (tethered modem) and I’ve been using this all weekend.

Now, all you have to do is click on several buttons and you’ll be connected to the Internet via the Blackberry Desktop Manager – you just have to make sure your blackberry is connected to your laptop or pc. Great stuff guys! Here’s some screenshots:

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Weekend Fun: Water Fountain Advertising

Danny Hsueh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:00:29 +0000

If you thought digital signage could impress with advertising, have a look at what a water fountain can do!

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Post tags: advertising, digital signage, Fun, Water Fountain

Weekend fun: How much for the www.digitalsignageblog.com?

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:35:57 +0000

This week we were approached by an individual who was interested in purchasing one of our domain names. We are not too sure what their intentions were but we thought that for this weekend fun post we would ask our readers how much do they think this domain name (www.digitalsignageblog.com) is worth. By the way… we are NOT selling this domain name.

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Post tags: blog, digital signage, Domain Name, Domain Names, Fun, Name Poll, Poll Id

Weekend Fun: Digital Signage that follows you

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:11:37 +0000

It’s another weekend and for this particular post we’re going to look at a fun and innovative digital signage solution in Taoyuan Airport. Basically, as you’re waling down the duty free alley in the Taoyuan airport Terminal 2, you will notice that an advertisement follows you. I’m not sure whether the ads as targeted specifically based on the gender or characteristics of the person walking past but do you find this too intrusive? Have a look at the video:

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Post tags: Advertisement, Airport Terminal 2, digital signage, Fun, Poll Id, Signage Solution, Taiwan, Taoyuan Airport, Video Poll