Touch Taiwan Expects 40,000 For Show Focused On Emerging Display Tech Like Micro & MiniLED June 24, 2019 by Super User This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. 28-30 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. …
ComQi, AUO Team Up On Swappable, Upgradeable Smart Digital Signage Displays June 21, 2019 by Super User The NYC-based digital signage CMS firm ComQi is starting to show some tangible technical evidence of its ties to parent company AUO, the Taiwanese display manufacturer that acquired them last year. The two have announced an all-in-one display that it says provides all the streamlined and cost-trimming advantages of a smart display, with none of …
MicroLED, Barely A Thing Right Now, To Explode In Growth As Manufacturing Tech Matures June 19, 2019 by Super User The tech research firm IHS Markit says the day will come when big microLED display walls will not just be affordable by Arab royalty, Russian oligarchs and NBA free agents. The global market for microLED displays is expected to grow to 15.5 million units by 2026, driven by steep declines in manufacturing costs, says the …
Family Fare Grocery Chain Using Digital Merchandising Displays And End-Caps June 19, 2019 by Super User Here are a couple of different digital merchandising displays put together for the Family Fare supermarket chain by another Grand Rapids’ MI-based company, Freshwater Digital. One is a digital end cap marketing what I assume are hemp-based CBD oil products, with the interesting wrinkle that a small tablet is down at waist level to enable interactive …
InfoComm Day 2: No Great Leaps Forward, But Many Subtle Advances June 14, 2019 by Super User Tons of great conversations and product demos on Thursday at InfoComm 2019. While it is very, very accurate to say there was/is not a whole pile that is strikingly new at this trade show, as you might expect, when you dig in, there’s lots going on and lots of subtle but meaningful improvements or innovations. …
LG Formally Launches Transparent OLED For US Market June 11, 2019 by Super User It appears LG’s next big thing to be showcased at InfoComm this week will be quite familiar to much of that show’s pro AV crowd. Transparent OLED has been around for several years, and definitely demo’d at trade show booths, but LG Business Solutions says it is officially launching its commercial, 55-inch digital signage display …
SiliconCore Joins Ranks Of LED Displaycos With Ruggedized Surfaces June 11, 2019 by Super User The high-end fine-pitch LED manufacturer SiliconCore is the latest firm to announce a product that adds a coating to protect fragile LED chips. The company’s InfoComm presence will include displays that use its LISA technology – “a proprietary surface protection layer that guard the LEDs from contact (or impact) damage, without compromising the brightness or image …
Two Examples Of Low Rez LED Displays That Are More Mood Than Message June 7, 2019 by Super User Here’s a couple of examples of low-resolution LED display applications that use blend with fabric or film to create soft, diffused visuals that are meant as motion backdrops or accents. The first is a fixture by the NYC printing company Duggal, which has a digital wing and created an interesting spin-out product called . The …
Deloitte’s IoT Dashboard Video Wall Logs What’s Happening In Toronto Offices June 6, 2019 by Super User Following up on that post about seeing a big BMO LED wall while on a layover, I also popped by the lobby of consulting giant Deloitte’s main Toronto office to see a video wall in its reception area that a friend said was interesting. The wall on the mezzanine level, where visitors check in, shows …
LG Re-Announces Big Orlando Airport Video Wall (Worth Seeing!) June 5, 2019 by Super User LG is a bit cheekily re-announcing and re-marketing the vast videowall installation at Orlando’s airport that uses some 700 of its smart display screens. It pushed out a press release this morning encouraging AV pros coming in to Orlando International Airport next week for InfoComm 2019 to have a look. The screens have been there for …
