Output's digital signage newsletter: February 15th 2012

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Major developments

Respected commentator Geny Caloisi joins Output

[Geny Caloisi] We're ecstatic to welcome Geny to our team of expert writers. A renowned, insightful yet inspiring technology journalist, Geny brings to Output her profound knowledge of the visual communications industry and an insightful view of trends in the digital signage and DOOH world.

You can reach Geny on Twitter at @Geny_Caloisi or by email at geny@outputmagazine.com.

Output recruits Danielle Arthur to sales team

[Danielle Arthur] Output's always on the look-out for young talent, and we recognised it in Danielle. We wanted a dedicated sales team member who would recognise the dynamic nature of our industry, and Danielle's experience in marketing and events means she fits the bill perfectly.

Meet her on Twitter at @Danielle_Arthur or drop her an email at danielle@outputmagazine.com.

Editor's note [spacer line]

[Morwenna Kearns, editor]
Welcome to the first weekly Output newsletter dedicated to the digital and electronic signage newsletter. If you were previously a reader of AKA.tv, you'll now be on this mailing list, so we hope you like it.
If you're unfamiliar with Output, we're an online magazine covering the whole of the signage, display and digital print sector. You can pick and choose what you want to read using our handy personalisation tool, so if you want to keep up with all the news, features, trade show previews, blogs and videos we deliver on digital signage but also want to see what's new in the wide-format print field, for instance, you can.
We also welcome industry expert Geny Caloisi to the editorial team, who will soon start to bring her digital signage knowledge and experience to Output, and of course, this newsletter.
Morwenna Kearns, managing editor
@morwennakearns
morwenna@outputmagazine.com

Latest from our digital signage stream

[Nick Smith on the London Olympic Games] Digital signage for London 2012 Olympic Games goes big, bright and outdoors
Feature Nick Smith looks at some of the digital signage technology being installed ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Show round-up: ISE 2012
Feature Catch up with the exciting developments you may have missed at ISE 2012 with James Matthews-Paul's three-part round-up series.

Opinion The Screen digital bus tour: an insight into the future of advertising

News JCDecaux digital screen helps Dove spread love on Valentine's Day

News US cinema chain adopts Real Digital Media digital signage

News Eye and Qantas to 'transform airport media' with interactivity

News Madonna gets some luvin' from Clear Channel with DOOH premiere for new single

News New standalone media player launched by AllSee Technologies

On the calendar

You can read our full list of industry events on Output, but here's what's coming up shortly:

Digital Signage Expo: March 6th – 9th 2012
Sign and Digital UK: March 27th – 29th 2012
Screenmedia Expo 2012: May 16th – 17th 2012
Kiosk Europe Expo and Digital Signage Expo 2012: June 12th – 13th 2012
Viscom Paris 2012: September 25th – 27th 2012
Viscom Italia 2012: October 4th – 6th 2012
Viscom Sign 2012: October 18th – 20th 2012
Sign and Digital Ireland 2012: October 24th – 25th 2012
Viscom Frankfurt 2012: October 25th – 27th 2012

Video of the Week

John Underkoffler points to the future of user interfaces

Recently, Output's junior reporter Nick Smith wrote about gestural user interfaces (UI) in digital signage. A number of companies are already bringing gesture-based engagement technologies to market and the outbound applications we've seen so far make us feel like the distant future has arrived from the film Minority Report.

In fact, our Video of the Week is a talk by John Underkoffler, chief scientist at Oblong Industries and science advisor on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise. Underkoffler discusses the limitations of mouse and keyboard, demos Oblong's latest gestural UI and touches on why gestural can't not be the way of the future. If, as he says, personal computers will be shipping with gestural tech in five years' time, imagine what DOOH has in store for us.

You can see lots more videos on Output's YouTube channel, many of which have been filmed with our artistic hand.

Elsewhere on Output

As well as digital signage, we cover the whole display market. Here's our pick of our other content of the past week.

Mimaki to rise to the challenge of its rival with massive launch in Wide-format print

Being bold: special effects inks in Production print

Flexible working: modular signs in Sign-making

The Output team
Danielle Arthur Media sales executive @Danielle_Arthur danielle@outputmagazine.com	Laurel Brunner Consultant (production print) @laurelbrunner lb@digitaldots.org	Geny Caloisi Consultant (digital signage) @Geny_Caloisi geny@outputmagazine.com
Mark Galliano-Doig Finance director mark@outputmagazine.com	Morwenna Kearns Managing editor @morwennakearns morwenna@outputmagazine.com	James Matthews-Paul Publisher @signanddisplay james@outputmagazine.com
Sophie Matthews-Paul Consultant (wide-format print) @rockstro sophie@rockstro.net	Nick Smith Editorial assistant @digitaldsnthurt nick@outputmagazine.com