Samsung Announces Back To Business Solutions Set Built On New Normal Challenges June 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes The operating challenges presented by the novel coronavirus have prompted a bunch of companies to start marketing solutions that are framed around using technology to get businesses back open and running safely. It started with a handful of solutions by smaller companies, but now the big guys – like Samsung – are getting involved. The …
Much-Needed Upgrade To LaGuardia Includes Plenty Of Dynamic, Data-Driven Screens June 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes Business travelers familiar with the hellscape that was the old LaGuardia airport in New York won’t recognize it if/when they start getting back on airplanes for things other than family emergencies. The cramped, dilapidated and just generally awful old terminal B that served Air Canada (my reference point) and some other airlines has been overhauled, …
Westfield Stratford City In London Upgrades Giant “Four Dials” LED Display On Facade June 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big Westfield Stratford City shopping mall on the east side of London, around where the 2012 Olympics were staged, has been around long enough now that it is refreshing some of its digital. This is a 10mm Daktronics display applied as a gentle curve on a facade of the mall. It replaces an earlier …
SID Converts Its 2020 Display Week To A Virtual Event June 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes The display industry nerd-fest known as SID/Display Week has been converted to a virtual event, scheduled for August 3-7. Formally known as the 57th International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, the event put on by the Society for Information Display “will bring together the brightest minds in the display industry to provide insight into the latest …
TSItouch Releases Safety Guidance On Touchscreens; New Products June 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Gary Mundrake, the CEO of TSItouch, has been a very active voice in recent weeks in the discussion around the safe use of technology in the midst of a pandemic. The quick reaction, when the situation grew serious and lockdowns started, was that devices that actively asked and needed to be touched, to be useful, …
Digital Projection’s New System Separates Laser Light Source And Projection Head By Up To 100 Meters June 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you spend any time looking at commercial projection technology as an option for a visual display project, you’ve probably noticed the projection units can be roughly the same size as the HVAC system on the side of a building, or on the roof. The things are necessarily big and heavy, take up a lot …
Looking Glass Announces 32-Inch 8K Holographic Display June 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Brooklyn-based tech startup Looking Glass has been showing its take on holographic displays for the last few years, but one of the key barriers to adoption was the size of the first units. A couple of years ago, the company was showing off a 9-inch and and 16-inch version of a thick glass display …
New Research Offers Clues On How Surfaces We All Touch – Like Screens – Handle Pathogens May 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes There is not a lot of cause in this space for referencing research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, but we live in curious times. A letter in the much-respected publication outlines the results of testing the lifespan of the novel coronavirus on a variety of surfaces – a hot button issue, for …
South Beach Condo Complex Adds 29-Foot LED Wall … To Parking Garage Lobby May 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a 29 foot wide by 7 foot high direct view LED video wall in the waiting area of a parking garage of a luxury condo complex in the South Beach section of Miami Beach. Yeah, the area where you wait for an Uber, Lyft or taxi. The video wall is one component of …
LG, Peerless-AV, Ping HD Partner On New Portable Digital Signage Bundle May 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has partnered with Peerless-AV and Ping HD on a portable digital signage bundle aimed at businesses that need to communicate changes and new guidelines as they re-open. There are high-bright window and standard versions of the bundle that encompasses an LG “smart” display running WebOs, Ping’s EngagePHD CMS software, and a Peerless-AV SmartMount Flat …
