Visionect’s new product is an electronic paper conference room booking system, most unusually called Joan.

Joan is a digital door sign system that allows for meeting room booking at the door, while also showing updates on meetings already scheduled.

It features E Ink’s 6-inch electronic paper display with 16 level grayscale and a 800×600 screen resolution with full capacitive touch screen interface.

The device has Wi-Fi connectivity, communicating with the existing meeting scheduling software wirelessly, and can be mounted without cables.

Already well-received among early reviewers, Joan makes scheduling meetings easier, decrease interruptions and allow more time to focus on what is important-- the meeting itself.

OK, now here’s a joke that we just made up: What do you call this booking system when the lights are off? Joan D’Arc, of course!

Go Visionect’s Joan, An E-Paper Conference Room Booking System

With conference and trade show season quickly approaching, Cell Phone Charging Kiosks with Digital Signage from NV3 Technologies might hold the key to successfully obtaining new leads and clients, developing relationships with existing clients, and maximizing return on investment in both money and time.

A tabletop NTC-1912 (photo left) customized with colors and logos is an inexpensive, effective method to expand the reach of a company's presence. There are great customizable floor-standing options as well, depending on the amount of available space.

An NV3 kiosk [photo below right] holds trade show attendees captive and provides the perfect networking opportunity for an average of fifteen minutes. When that time is used for pitching products and company information, new contacts and lead generation come naturally.

NV3 Technologies recently entered into a multi-year business venture with Digital Conventions in Washington DC. Ten Cell Phone Charging Kiosks (eight with 32-inch HD LED screens and two with 46-inch HD LED screens) are now available for trade show booths to sponsor.

NV3 provides the kiosks and any needed service, and Digital Conventions ensures sponsorship of kiosks for trade shows and events. Each unit displays information supporting the active show and has the capacity to charge nine mobile devices simultaneously with NV3's safe charging technology. NV3 is looking to close similar deals with other companies interested in providing cell phone charging and digital signage.

A major cell phone carrier representative and client of NV3 Technologies says, "Mobile device batteries tend to expire more quickly in the trade show setting than most patrons expect." She owns over a dozen portable tabletop units for use at events and trade shows, and is a major proponent of the importance of charging kiosks in convention centers. "Necessary information is kept on smartphones and tablets; a lost connection can be devastating to the productivity of trade show participants."

When a trade show booth features an NV3 Cell Phone Charging Kiosk and uses the unique digital signage screen to display relevant company or product information, that booth has the potential to see more traffic than it would have otherwise.

Go NV3 Cell Phone Charging Kiosk

It's a classic digital signage solution: turning the large-standing commercial drinks coolers, with their huge front doors, into a signage opportunity. Turning the previously untapped potential of a ubiquitous (but inert) box into a valuable display...

The ThruVu Digital Cooler from MRI is a transparent digital cooler product-- the first fully integrated and complete solution of its kind according to MRI.

The free-standing cooler solution allows for Full HD images, graphics and videos to be displayed on the front door assembly of the cooler, while simultaneously allowing clear viewing of the product within the cooler. A 55” transparent LCD replaces the traditional front cooler glass, and a customized electronics assembly provides the necessary technology backbone.

The ThruVu product is a complete digital cooler solution that includes the free standing cooler, LCD front door assembly, media player, and all required software integration. The design provides superior visual image quality on the LCD itself through a backlighting enhancement that MRI calls TransVu.

This feature, they claim, provides 78 percent color saturation and allows for viewing the image on the screen when the door is both open and closed. The product has also met U.S. Department of Energy compliance standards for commercial coolers. Additions such as a 4G cellular modem allow for remote content uploading and back-end hardware monitoring.

Go ThruVu Digital Cooler from MRI

Commissioned by Avantgarde Middle East, Engage Production Ltd built a ‘virtual changing room’, or Virtual Style Pod, showcased at luxury retail destination The Galleria, on Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi.

A new retail experience, the Virtual Style Pod enables visitors to click through a range of clothing – with the world’s first “accurate cloth simulation” – and accessories while a 3D virtual styling expert assists with fit and colour.

Built by Engage Production (with Space3D supplying its Fashion3D application under licence as the core software) and Avantgarde Middle East (responsible for concept creation, project management, and hosting), the Virtual Style Pod brings together the virtual and physical worlds. Utilising a life-size screen mirror, augmented reality software overlays the user’s image with realistic 3D renders of clothing. It enables users to quickly create outfits by mixing and matching a wide range of garments from the host’s inventory.