OLED Is A Thing, And Other Thoughts From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Super User I pulled the ripcord this afternoon after 2.5+ days at Display Week. My brain hurt, and the symposium sessions in the afternoon looked terrifyingly technical. It does not help that English is not the first language of many/most of the technical presenters – so you get a Japanese guy, an engineer or researcher, doing a …
Day Two Impressions From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Super User Random insights, so far, from SID Display Week in San Jose, CA: The display industry is slowing down, with compounded annual growth expected to sit at around 4% for next eight or nine years: Touch Display Report forecast; LCD sales will be flat-ish, over that time, but OLED sales will grow steadily: also from Touch …
Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Super User The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending …
Robert Heise On GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field May 8, 2019 by Super User Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. GDS expanded into digital …
Cruise Line Uses Robotic Arms For Choreographed LED Screen Shows May 4, 2019 by Super User Four Royal Caribbean cruise ships – the newer ones that are the size fully loaded container ships – are now using screens on robotic arms for entertainment. The cruise line’s Quantum Class ships – like the Spectrum of the Seas – have lounges with these dancing screens, using ABB robotics arms. The first ones went …
Company That Rents Physical Artworks To Businesses Adds Digital Signage Capabilities May 3, 2019 by Super User A company that provides physical works of art as a service to property owners and companies has added digital capability, providing a presumably less costly alternative to custom creative for things like large format video walls. Boston-based TurningArt says it has a collection of over 25,000 pieces of art, including paintings, illustrations and photographs, “most of …
Now NYC Activists Are Duct-Taping Anti-Smart City Messages On LinkNYC DOOH Screens May 3, 2019 by Super User It’s been a rough few weeks for the media company Intersection and its LinkNYC “smart cities” ad posters. First, dozens were vandalized and damaged. Now an activist group is duct-taping anti-LinkNYC messages to the screens. RethinkLinkNYC is a New York-based community group that opposes the screens, primarily on the basis of privacy concerns. The group’s …
UK’s Allsee Marketing Battery-Powered Digital Sandwich Boards May 2, 2019 by Super User Birmingham, UK-based Allsee Technologies has started marketing a digital sandwich board display that’s portable and runs 12-plus hours on a rechargeable battery. The pitch is that these things are easily positioned wherever they need to be, and don’t need to be against a wall to get power, or require a power cord that becomes a …
Vancouver Office Tower Uses OLED Video Wall To Replace Directory, Renew Lobby May 2, 2019 by Super User This is a tiled LG 2 by 6 OLED video wall built into the lobby wall of an office tower in downtown Vancouver, BC. The displays are set into a bamboo wood wall set against a granite wall. They replaced a physical building directory. The project at Park Place, at 666 Burrard Street, was put …
LG Announces Dates For Display Tech Road Shows Across US May 1, 2019 by Super User LG has announced the schedule for its annual TechTour, with the first roving road show date set for two weeks in Washington, DC. The electronics giant has events planned for: May 14 – Washington, DC July 24 – Dallas Aug. 22 – Orange County, CA Sept. 12 – San Jose, CA Sept. 26 – Chicago …
