System Longevity

Do you buy your AV for today, or are you positively preparing to live with it for the next 20 years? A simple question – yet we are still seeing previous generation systems with built-in obsolesce going in. What will …

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More Dormouse features

Some more on Dormouse features. Dormouse is like previous generation tour guide systems only in as much as it provides audio – but it takes the tour guide experience to quite a new level. Since Dormouse can create randomized soundscapes, …

Self-healing tech – do you need it?

Self-healing technology. Do you need it? Well, that depends on who you are. If you’re an AV company that makes their money out service contracts, you probably wish we had not invented it. However, if you’re an end-user with a …

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Dormouse, an audio companion

`Suppose we change the subject,’ the March Hare interrupted, yawning. `I’m getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story.’ `I’m afraid I don’t know one,’ said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. `Then the Dormouse …

AV for your multi-national

Wouldn’t it be nice if ALL of your international businesses and projects could share the same AV equipment, so that anyone on the team had the same reference and experience, and so that all of your team’s expertise was accumulative? …

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AV in 2020 – a view of the future

Here’s a snapshot of AV in 2020: Our “DrinkMe” design and auto-configuration software will get you into the world of Mad AV where basic AV design and configuration is mostly automated. You’ll just draw your AV system on a plan …

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LEED’s dirty little secret

LEED buildings? It’s time to talk about a dirty little secret: power management of AV systems – something that should be a basic requirement does not appear to be obligatory. Power Management, so often forgotten in RFPs, really matters. This …

Content Management System…

If your Content Management System looks or feels like this, it’s time for a change. The CMS built into #QuickSilver™ is simple to use. Instead of a huge hard to use server to “manage content”, there’s just a drive, with …

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an Elevator Pitch?

“I wouldn’t want the job of trying to boil down what Mad Systems does to an elevator pitch, unless it was a very tall building with a very slow elevator … “The Mad Science Behind Mad Systems” On this week’s …