Beijing Subway Line Adds Transparent Digital Windows On Passenger Cars April 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video from Beijing’s subway system, in a passenger car that has digital signage running in a window. It is on line 6, and my guess is the display is a transparent OLED. There’s no side lighting to make it LCD and the pitch is, by the looks of it, far too tight …
Digital Signage Solution Tweaked To Enforce Social Distancing At Retail April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes When I load up with my sanitizer and wipes, and grab my mask, to go out on a grocery or hardware run, I almost invariably end up in a line-up outside the store – with social distancing markers on the sidewalk and a cashier turned bouncer controlling access at the door. One person leaves, and …
Diversified Partners With Aurora On VitalSign COVID-19 Screening Display Kit April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big NJ-based AV integrator Diversified tends to sell expertise and services, and re-sell gear, but in the face of a public and private landscape changed by COVID-19, has started marketing a branded physical product tuned to health safety. Diversified has debuted – FocalPoint – VitalSign – an Android tablet with Diversified support that has …
How Will Customer Engagement Technologies Work When Touching Screens Is Intimidating? April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes 16:9 is working with the AV trade association AVIXA, and Munich-based consulting/publishing firm invidis on a virtual roundtable next week focused on the touchy issue (sorry for the pun, but … ) of asking consumers to use touch screens when they’ve spent weeks and months being warned to stay the heck away from anyone and …
COVID-19 Will Change How Many Offices Work; Here’s How Digital Display Tech Plugs In April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the very few positives of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wholesale shift, albeit temporarily, from formal offices to work from home arrangements. While many people will eventually return to their offices and see their co-workers once again, and all the cars on their commute, it is very likely a lot of people …
SID Pushes Display Week Off Two Months To August; Moves Down I-280 To San Jose April 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display (SID) has rescheduled its annual Display Week from June to August, and shifted the symposium, seminar and trade show from downtown San Francisco to the San Jose Convention Center, where it was run in 2019. The revised schedule is Aug. 2-7. “COVID-19 has had an unprecedented, unanticipated effect on all …
Touchscreen Guidance For A (Post) Confinement World – Part Two April 15, 2020 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface In Part One of this series, we took a look at the steps creative agencies and systems integrators need to take to ensure the longevity and appeal of touch-first digital deployments to physical spaces. Health concerns will not disappear with the end of confinement; if anything, these concerns will be …
Touchscreen Guidance For A (Post) Confinement World – Part One April 14, 2020 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface It’s easy to throw around phrases like “once-in-a-generation” or “once-in-a-lifetime,” but our experience with the Coronavirus outbreak may just merit the comparison. Post-pandemic, life will be irrevocably changed; the question is only by how much. Have handshakes with colleagues and cheek-kisses with friends seen their last days? Will remote work …
SNA Displays Launches Free DIY Tool That Helps Visualize LED Projects At Ideation Stage April 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The direct view LED firm SNA Displays has launched a visualization tool that allows anyone from an integrator to architect to virtually design display projects in a variety of standard and custom environments. The new online, interactive tool was, understandably, built for SNA Displays’ prospective clients and its partner network, but is also available for …
How A Touch Manufacturer Is Making Screen Use Safe, When Interactive Has Grown Scary April 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes As you might expect, there is a fair amount of trepidation out there about using touchscreens these days, and it presents a challenge for digital signage and interactive tech vendors like TSItouch. I asked Gary Mundrake, the Pennsylvania company’s president, for TSItouch’s perspective on having a customer engagement solution that people, right or wrong, may …
