MicroTouch Interactive Display Brand Back; TES America Revives After Buying From 3M February 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you were somebody who bought or specified 3M interactive touch products, the familiar MicroTouch line of touch monitors sold for many years by that Minnesota tech giant has been re-launched via a separate company, TES America. TES, in PR, says it has outfitted MicroTouch with an all-new look and is expanding the line of …
Jakarta Integrator Gets Beyond Rectangles With Curvy, Ribbon-Stripped Lobby Video Wall February 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice example of using flexible direct view LED modules to work with curves and make a relatively small video wall visually interesting. It is in the lobby of the Jakarta-based AV systems integrator V2 Indonesia, and is using the flexible product from Hong Kong-based Lighthouse. I like the curves, but also the …
Horse Auction Firm Uses Data-Driven LED Displays For Running Sales Events January 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is not the most exciting use case I’ve seen for digital signage, but as noted endless times, useful and efficient is often more meaningful than Wow Factor jobs. In this case, it’s a horse auction company that uses DV LED screens, BrightSign boxes, and live data feeds to show the state of affairs on …
inLighten’s Orbit Puts Multiple Promos On Screen At Once; Then Makes It Interactive January 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Stumbled across this interesting retail application by the upstate New York digital signage CMS and solutions firm inLighten. It’s very reminiscent of the wave of social media visualizations from a few years ago that scraped Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest feeds to put various posts on to a digital canvas, and give them a little …
LCD Display Prices Continue To Rise. Here’s Why … January 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Graphic: LCD TV Panel Prices January 2020 – June 2021 – Source: DSCC I’m hearing from some industry friends that LCD display panel prices are rising – which on the surface likely seems incongruous, given the economic slowdown and widespread indications that a lot of 2020 and 2021 display projects went on hold because of …
Iceland’s National Theatre Upgrades With Digital Promo Posters On Art Deco Facade January 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s an effective use of outdoor digital displays used as replacements for print posters – in this case at the National Theatre of Iceland, in Reykjavík. Last summer, according to a case study from screen supplier Peerless AV, the theatre’s technical team were tasked with finding an alternative to the old traditional static signage at …
Video: Dancing Bodies Latest Public 3D Art On That Seoul LED Display January 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the very latest public art piece developed for that big wrap-around Samsung LED display in a Seoul shopping district. The video, like previous ones, was created by the Seoul digital shop D’strict. Like the others, it’s amazing. The piece is described this way: “We hope for a world where people with diverse values …
Firefly Wants To Generate Buzz By Putting Its Taxi-Top Screens On Tesla 3s In NYC January 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes The VC-funded DOOH media start-up Firefly is looking to generate some buzz by putting its taxi-top ad displays on a new fleet of Tesla 3 electric vehicles that have been approved for use in New York City. The EVs are run by a taxi concession licensee called Drive Sally. The company says it is the …
STRATACACHE Hopes To Be Producing MicroLEDs Display Chips In US By Q4 2021 January 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes More details are starting to emerge about STRATACACHE’s intentions for that microLED production facility the company is spinning up in Eugene, Oregon. The new factory, reports microled-info, will be a complete microLED production line, from epiwafer (on 300 mm silicon wafers), through transfer process and to final module assembly. The company plans to produce a …
DV LED Special Report – January 2021 January 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Jan. 2021 Direct View LED Special Report by Sixteen:Nine is now available for free download. There are no strings attached. No fee. No registration form. No tracking. Just click on the download link here and you can grab the PDF file, and save to your PC or other device. All I’d like and appreciate …
