Israeli Tech Firms Team Up On Mini LCD Video Wall For Sports Interview Logo Backdrops December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Three small Israeli tech companies have teamed up on a solution aimed at enlivening the logo walls that seem to be showing up at every pre and post-game media discussion in professional and even high-level amateur sport. Backdrops covered in neatly arranged and repeated logos are particularly common in professional football (soccer for Americans), but …
LG, ASSA ABLOY Partner On OLED Displays Embedded In Sliding Automated Doors December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG is working with a Swedish access control company to commercialize automated entry doors that have transparent OLED displays embedded in the sliding glass doors. The new product uses LG’s 55-inch transparent OLED signage display and runs LG’s own CMS SuperSign software, paired with the technologies that drive manufacturer ASSA ABLOY’s Entrance Systems. “In addition to …
Chicago’s FLEx Lighting Completes $9M Raise For What It Calls LCD 2.0 December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes A Chicago company that specializes in thin, flexible lighting arrays has completed a fundraising initiative that will help get it into the business of small, reflective displays for applications like retail digital signage. FLEx Lighting announced $9 million in funding, led by venture capital firm Anzu Partners, to grow and commercialize its new, tablet-sized reflective displays. …
BP Using LED Video Walls Inside Kiwi C-Stores, Surrounding Cooler Doors December 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been lots of examples of transparent and regular LCDs acting as cooler doors in grocery and other food and booze retail settings, but I think this is the first time I have seen using LED to surround cooler doors. It’s great. This is a special “Good Mood Food” section set up in select …
Montreal’s Nummax Marketing LED Digital Posters For Shop Windows December 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes For the last two or three years I have seen countless vendors – mostly from China – marketing LED posters on floor stands as promotional posters for scenarios like retail. My initial concerns were that the things generally ran super hot and didn’t look terribly good unless you stepped well back. My lingering concern is …
8K Displays Use Twice The Power Of 4K Versions: Research December 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes A pair of tech research firms have produced an interesting report on the energy demands of consumer video devices, and produced some insights I am guessing are not widely known – notably that 8K displays are energy hogs. The joint study – called The Sustainable Future of Video Entertainment – was released by InterDigital and …
Sharp NEC Launch New Display Series Supporting Slot-Loaded External PCs December 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The recently blended entity Sharp NEC Display Solutions has released a new series of digital signage displays that support external, slot-loaded computing modules. The new ME Series accept versions of Intel’s Smart Display Module Small or Large reference designs for mini-PCs that slide into a PCIe slot, and also the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. NEC …
LG Announces New Display Lab, Focused On MicroLED November 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has announced some exec level organizational changes in South Korea that are more about things like major appliances, but the electronics giant also announced some future plans for display and innovation tech. “Under the CTO’s Materials & Devices Advanced Research Center will be the New Display Lab,” says the Nov. 26th press release, “which …
LED’s Mainstreaming Continues: Here’s a Car Rental Counter With A Big Video Wall November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you close your eyes and empty your busy head, you may be able to vaguely recall these things called airports – mass transport hubs popular before the plague hit. Airports are often home to really great digital signage work – because they have a lot of eyeballs (normally) moving past screens, and they have …
Giant Arched LED Video Wall Greets Workers, Visitors At SW China Office Tower November 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a big 12K resolution LED video wall in the street-level lobby of the tallest office tower in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang. The skyscraper officially opened its doors about a year ago, and the centerpiece is the 7.7 meter high by 27 meter wide video wall, which arches over the elevator lobby …
