Commercial Display Sales Almost Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels In US February 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes Commercial display and projector sales through U.S. distribution channels are coming back nicely after a big dip brought on by the pandemic, and despite supply chain issues. That’s the word from the Southern California research firm PMA Research (PMA) in the newest version of its all-displays sell-through tracking report – which looks at professional large-format flat …
Japanese 7-Elevens Testing Floating Virtual Screens For Touchless Transactions January 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes On the heels of word that a fast casual restaurant chain in Quebec is testing touchless self-service ordering kiosks comes news of 7-Eleven deploying test units of a touchless payment station in some of its Japanese stores. The program involves six different technology companies, with a division of Toshiba guiding the program. From a Japanese …
Nanolumens, Megapixel VR Partner To Optimize LED Video Wall Visuals, Security January 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes A big fine pitch LED video wall can be driven by nothing more than the same sorts of media players that push content to flat panel displays, but specialized technology tuned to video walls will tend to do a noticeably better job with the final visuals. Video wall processing was something I didn’t pay much …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
Here’s A Pair Of LED Video Walls That Are Both Inside And Outside A Corporate Space January 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Jamie Finnegan of Media Resources, who posted on Linkedin about this project … Putting LED video walls inside corporate lobbies is certainly not new, and the same goes for LED boards outside of office blocks. But here’s a seemingly unique (or at least rare) set-up that sees a flanking pair of interior …
Expo 2020 Exhibit Mashes Up Kiosk, AR, Selfies And Projection Mapping January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Al Wasl Plaza is one of the signature locations at the Expo 2020 exhibition that was COVID-delayed and now running through March in Dubai. There is a lot of technology all through the Expo site, but a Linkedin post via Christie shows a particularly inventive way to blend interactive kiosks, selfies, AR and projection …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
German OOH Media Giant Ströer Expanding Digital Footprint With 6MM Daktronics LED Boards January 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Daktronics has announced a renewed partnership to supply a pie of large-format outdoor LED displays to the German OOH media firm Ströer, which also already has more than 250 Dak LEDs in its billboard inventory around Germany. The new screens will measure 9 square meters or 10 square meters, all 6mm pitch units – some …
NYC Subways Start Using Square And Ribbon LCD “Live Cards” In Rail Cars January 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Paul Fleuranges, a board exec of the Digital Signage Federation (and a very smart, experienced guy looking for the right new gig), for passing along this information and video of new digital signage screens running on the NYC subway system. He notes via Linkedin: Took my first subway ride of the new …
