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Starring at Computex: new interactive technologies
Computex, Asia’s biggest computer fair, was dominated by sub-notebooks, green technology and WiMAX – but also on display in Taipei earlier this month were developments in interactivity which could lead to some innovative screen-media products.
The coin-operated kiosks demonstrated by Hon Jet Information allow you to make a printout for a fee. It could prove a real boon for public attractions – consumers could create a personalised map, emphasising 
Shining at InfoComm: bright projectors, glasses-free 3D
A welter of new digital-signage and AV products will make their debuts at the InfoComm exhibition, which opens in Las Vegas today. Here's our selection of the most interesting so far. Among the trends: glasses-free 3D, and super-bright projectors.
DT Research is adding three new sizes to its WebDT Signage System: 12, 42 and 65 inches. The company already offers 26-, 37- and 47-inch digital-signage units, as well as
Wututu wins another bank with People Counter
Wututu is to install its Person Counter audience-measurement devices in Spanish branches of Deutsche Bank.
The Person Counters, which distinguish individual members of a screen’s audience by facial geometry, will be used to monitor the effectiveness of kiosks which TMT Factory is rolling out to the bank branches (pictured).
The first phase of the project will cover Madrid and Barcelona, with two kiosks per office.
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NTT to debut digital signage with aromas
Japanese telecommunications company NTT Communications will next month launch a digital-signage system equipped with an aroma-emitting device, following feasibility studies conducted late last year.
Akira Sakaino, sales promotion department manager in NTT’s Net Business Division, told SCREENS.tv that the Kaoru Digital Signage product will combine two existing online services: the Spot Media service for sending content from a remote server to digital signage, and the Fragrance Communication (Kaori Tsushin)
Indian firm claims 3D first
India’s Absolute 3D Visions has developed an airport digital-signage network using glasses-free 3D screens, and is looking to deploy its technology in other locations such as cinemas.
Speaking to SCREENS.tv, CEO V.S. Veerasami said: “We are the first company in India to launch [a] digital-signage network using autostereoscopic 3D display screens.”
Veerasami said that the company’s first such displays have been installed at Coimbatore Airport, where a
Netpresenter offers free Web-based digital signage
Netpresenter, the Dutch digital-signage software specialist, is following the lead of India's InfoSignz by making a version of its product available for free as a Web-based service. Its new EasyBroadcast system is available without charge and without advertising.
Users prepare content online, incorporating media including image files, transitions, YouTube-hosted videos, and Adobe Flash animations.
The content can then be played back on any Windows PC with an
Walgreens sign to be brighter than sun (okay, not quite)
Sign professionals call them “spectaculars”, but one looks set to be more spectacular than others – the titanic LED screen that U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens will unveil in New York's Times Square later this year, dwarfing (not to mention outshining) the rest of the square's already world-famous signage.
Walgreens is commissioning a 341-foot-tall sign to occupy three sides of the 1 Times Square building, where it is opening a
SMS “is missing ingredient of digital signage”
Interactive digital signage is one of the most potent ways for brands to establish direct contact with consumers, and could even replace market research in the future, according to a New York firm which has raised more than $1m for nonprofits in the last year using digital signage and SMS.
Sophist Productions says funds raised by its patent-pending Text-to-Pledge mobile fund-raising system last week topped the $1m mark. Organisations
