When it comes to presenting information to a large but focus group of visitors – such as conference attendee’s, commuters, hotel visitors etc. – the options have been limited to whiteboards, pinboards or a member of staff. Today we are able to convey information quickly and easily using digital signage screens. Products such as free-standing… Continue reading Digital Signage for visitor information
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Increasingly small businesses and local shops are looking to compete for custom with national and even global competition. Many businesses are looking to modern technological trends to increase brand awareness and increase turnover. The use of Facebook and Twitter to promote a business is common place these days but there is still a gap in… Continue reading ePosters – The future for local advertising?
Digital Menu Boards have seen a rapid rise in popularity in the last few years. Increasingly businesses are seeing the benefits of using a digital network to update their product offerings to their customers almost instantly. Long gone are the lengthy and expensive days of producing printed promotional material and shipping it out to all… Continue reading Digital Menu Boards – A Cost Effective Alternative to Traditional Printed Material
When it comes to exterior digital signage monitors many people look at the specification of the screen but this is just one element that makes a complete signage solution. When you install a high brightness public display screen to advertise your products or services outdoors you want to protect your investment whilst ensuring it looks… Continue reading KnoXbox enclosures – Protecting your investment
There are many ways to drive digital signage displays be it from a fully functional Windows or Linux PC, a Blu-ray/DVD player or more commonly a dedicated media player. Each system has its strengths and weaknesses so we thought we’d use this post to cover a few of these options and why you might choose… Continue reading Digital Signage Screens – How to drive your monitors
The Noughties Touch Screen Revolution
At the turn of the 21st century, touch screen technology began to make serious headway into both industrial processes and the lives of the population. The first digital signage display monitors were produced in 2001 and allowed users to access and manipulate information quite literally at the touch of a finger. The technology is firmly… Continue reading The Noughties Touch Screen Revolution
At its absolute simplest, a touch screen is a visual display interface (a screen) which produces an action when a particular point on the screen is touched. Devices such as tv logic monitors present users with multiple and simultaneous menu options that simply do not exist on standard display monitors. The roots of this particular… Continue reading The History of Touch Screen Technology – The 1990’s
The advent of the 1980’s saw the development of the first multi-functional touch screen devices. As the term suggests, it refers to the ability of the monitor surface (for instance a digital product catalogue) to respond to one, two or more points of contact. Multi-touch technology has its roots in the manufacture of synthesizers and… Continue reading Touch Screen Technology in the 1980s
The theoretical basis behind touchscreen technology can be traced back to the 1940’s, but the technology itself was not even remotely possible until the mid-1960’s. The first functioning touch screen device was invented by an electronics engineer known as E.A Johnson in 1965. He was employed by Royal Radar Establishment (known today as the Royal… Continue reading Where did Touch Screen Technology Come From?
To understand what makes a LCD display sunlight readable you must first understand how a typical LCD monitor works. LCD displays are classed as transmissive displays, meaning they do not produce their own light source but rely on another light source to make them visible. Flat panel LCD displays are built from multiple layers that… Continue reading What Makes a LCD Display Sunlight Readable?