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Use picture frames for easy signage, says PhotoVu
A U.S. vendor of digital picture frames believes its technology could be used for low-end digital-signage networks in small businesses.
PhotoVu, which sells 19- and 22-inch framed LCD units on which users can display images from a USB flash or hard drive, is now to offer the devices specifically for digital signage after finding that many customers were using them for that purpose, as pictured. 
Adobe bans its Media Player from digital-signage devices
Digital-signage networks using Adobe’s new Media Player to show content could be in breach of the software company’s licence agreement – as hundreds of networks already using Adobe’s Flash are also believed to be.
The licence for Media Player 1.0, released this week almost a year after its first announcement, states that it cannot be run on “any non-PC device or with any embedded or device version of any
Can wearable screens cut through India’s clutter?
LCD screens may not be the obvious garb for India’s summer heat – but wearable media are heading to the subcontinent through a new deal between Mumbai out-of-home communications agency Mass Media Makers (MMM) and Canada’s Pixman Nomadic Media. And the local firm hopes that the human touch of wearable media will help advertisers cut through the diversity of India’s consumers.
Pravin Chudasama, president and founder of MMM, told
Take me to your tour leader
The Korean capital of Seoul now has 20 robots acting as walking, talking, mobile, digital display units, most of them at Kimpo International Airport.
Each of the autonomous robots helps passengers via a chest screen with touchscreen interface which provides real-time information about flights, locations and amenities – for example, travellers can ask it the way to a particular airport facility, and it will tell them where it is
Aquascript creates text from water
Just when you thought digital signage had reached an LCD plateau, along comes USE Enterprises with a moving water-droplet display system called Aquascript.
Based on a magnetic valve water-release system developed by inventor Julius Popp some three years ago, the technology has been refined by USE, which will be offering the system for hire at major events in the UK and, via partners, in the Middle East and the
LocaModa links screens, phones, Web
LocaModa is developing closer links among out-of-home screens, mobile phones and the Internet with a pair of technology innovations. The company is offering network owners the opportunity to associate themselves with the Facebook phenomenon, as well as making a game played on a giant screen in New York accessible to users anywhere in the world.
What LocaModa director of community Jayne Karolow calls its “Facebook-connected social platform” allows
Battery-powered display aimed at older stores
After eight years in the screen-media business, Digital View has come up with a new variant on the theme: a battery-powered signage system.
Aimed at retail environments and other sites where digital signage is required but power is not available at all points in the premises, particularly older supermarkets, the VideoFlyer-SP system will be launched at the GlobalShop exhibition in Chicago on 18 March.
Based on five- and
Ooha puts ad screens on free Internet kiosks
Ooha Services India has installed its first Ooha Station in Chennai, offering free high-speed Internet to users for 15 minutes while carrying advertising on a public-facing LCD screen.
The station (pictured) is a 6.5-foot-high structure with an LCD monitor for free broadband Internet browsing and another 42-inch LCD mounted on top of it, according to Ooha’s founder and CEO Thomas John. The first station has been deployed at Abirami
