Huawei Flagship Stores In EU Using LED Chandeliers As Design Centerpieces June 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes The retail design firm Lonsdale is doing some interesting work with what is described as LED chandeliers in Huawei retail stores in Europe. The Chinese tech manufacturer’s flagship stores in Paris and Berlin have tall LED sculptures as centerpieces in the store design – with custom LED strips, clad with mirrored frames, suspended vertically and …
Tropical Birds Appear In Open Air Bar’s Trees, Using Spinning LED Light Wands June 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Those madly spinning LED light wand thingies don’t make a lot of sense to me in a digital signage industry that tries hard to not use tech with moving parts. But once in a while I come across an application where they make sense and are effective. There have been a couple of interesting applications …
Chipotle Using Digital Signage To Speed Up Back Of House Order Prep June 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes These may be common and I just haven’t come across them, but I was intrigued watching a video interview with QSR chain Chipotle’s CTO, talking about making a big pivot to digital when COVID hit. Just about every restaurant had to adjust in a serious way, but it is a bigger challenge for companies that …
DSCC Suggests Large Flat Panel Display Market Shifting From Shortages To Oversupply June 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Just as many industry people are scratching around trying to find what they need to deliver on work in the midst of technology shortages, there’s word the display part of the business is flipping from shortage to oversupply. The industry analysts at Display Supply Chain (or DSCC) have pushed out a new report that suggests …
BT Enhances Its Smart City DOOH Totems As It Expands UK Street Hub Network June 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes British telecoms giant BT is expanding its network of what it calls Street Hubs – Digital OOH displays with smart city components – in both existing and new sites around the U.K. BT intends to add as many 200 second-generation versions of the digital totems in the coming year, using a new enhanced design called …
Gable Launches Mall Kiosk With Twin Big Screens For Directory And Advertising June 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes The retail-centric solutions company Gable has deployed an interesting double display in an Ohio shopping mall that uses one screen for navigation and directory lookup, and a second for DOOH advertising. The company, based in the Baltimore area, says the display unit is the first of its kind, and I can’t say I’ve seen something …
Planar Adds Super-Fine Pitch MicroLED To Video Wall Line-up June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Portland-based Planar, and by extension its Chinese parent company Leyard, has formally joined the growing list of display companies offering super-fine pitch, microLED-driven video wall displays. The company’s new DirectLight Ultra Series has pitches ranging from 0.6 to 1.2mm. I don’t know if these products meet the display nerd purity test of what’s technically microLED, versus …
City Plaza Webcams Get Super-Sized As Real-Time Portal Views To Other Places June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The video and overall presentation comes across as though the backers have definitively cured cancer, but this community art project coming out of Lithuania is nonetheless kind of interesting. Called Portal, it is essentially a public webcam that connects people on the street with each other, even though they are cities and countries apart. The …
Alpine Mecca Uses Solar-Powered E-Paper Signs To Guide Visitors June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes E-paper digital signs have been used outside for real-time transit stop information and local directories, but I can’t recall them being used quite like they are in the scenic Bavarian village of Oberstdorf. The area is a skiing and hiking mecca, attracting visitors year-round – a lot of them new to the area and filled …
Sony Adds IR Touch To 4K Pro Displays Via TSItouch Collaboration May 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony’s 4K HDR commercial displays are now touch-ready, via a technology collaboration that puts TSItouch’s infrared (IR) multi-touch on the 55, 65 and 75-inch models of Sony’s BRAVIA – the BZ40H series of pro displays. The pitch with the TSItouch Pulse Type IR tech is that it can detect virtually any input – including a finger, gloved finger, …
