Barco Takes 5% Position In Chinese LED Giant Unilumin Via Partnership Deal September 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes Belgium’s Barco has taken a 5% position in Chinese direct view LED giant Unilumin, as part of a new “strategic collaboration.” The partnership announced at Barco’s end gives the European company access to a “cost-competitive supply of high-quality LED display components, that allows broader penetration in its core markets with differentiated Barco LED visualization hardware …
Clever AR-To-Digital Signage Mash-Up Lets Fans Pose With NFL Pros September 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was asked recently, for a podcast, where I thought augmented reality fit with digital signage, and I suggested it might often be a better fit to see AR through a big screen, rather than the little ones in our hands, stuck in front of our faces. Here’s a fantastic example of that, introduced at …
LG Packages Up A 1.5mm LED As A Single Monster Screen September 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes In the last year or so I have seen numerous smaller direct-view LED manufacturers package up their products in specifically defined sizes, and now the big guys like LG are doing the same. The Korean electronics giant has announced the LAA015F display – a 130-inch diagonal 1.5mm pitch all-in-one screen seemingly aimed at the corporate …
Spokane’s Airport Hangs An LED Chandelier September 5, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is an LED chandelier in the rotunda of one of the main post-security concourses at Spokane International Airport in eastern Washington state. It’s part of modernization work at the airport, and includes a big welcome LED wall and tiled LCDs at airline counters. The skinny LEDs are from NanoLumens. You are currently viewing a …
ANC Debuts VERSA-tile Portable LED Posters For Event Marketing September 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes The digital signage and entertainment venue solutions provider ANC has come up with an interesting approach to temporary rental displays – a direct-view LED poster that can be doubled in height or tiled with matching units to make a video wall. VERSA is a free-standing unit that ships in the sorts of rugged roller cases …
Touch Taiwan Final Impressions August 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Heading home, yay, after almost seven days in Taipei for the Touch Taiwan trade show. When I was out south of Taipei in a city called Hsinchu, my car went past Taiwan Semiconductor, which has a plant footprint that would make automaker plants look like local gas stations. HUGE. That’s the sort of thing Taiwan …
Day One Impressions From Touch Taiwan – Mini And Micro LED On Rise August 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Well this was going to be a pain in the butt, I thought, as I went through airport-level security screening to get into the exhibit hall Wednesday for the first day of Touch Taiwan. There were scanners and bag checkers and line-ups. Then I realized Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, was at the opening of the …
AOPEN Debuts Seriously Rugged Commercial Tablet That Runs On Chrome OS August 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based AOPEN has been doing small all-in-one displays and media players built around Google’s Chrome operating system for a while now, and it just announced a commercial-grade tablet intended for use in heavier duty environments like self-service, retail POS and health care. The company had earlier launched a 10-inch Chromebase all-in-one that would look very …
Controlled Retail Tests Show 800%+ Sales Bump Using Triggered Digital Signage Messaging August 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes Digital signage end-users in hyper-competitive sectors like retail and quick service restaurants have always tended to keep their cards really close to their chest when it comes to talking about the actual impact of digital signage networks. Why would they want to share results that inform and guide competitors? There’s also the problem of all …
In The Right Conditions, Switchable Glass And Laser Projectors Have Possibilities August 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen switchable glass demo’d by NEC for rear projection window displays at a couple of trade shows this year, and while I thought it was interesting, the visual impact was a little muted. It had that age-old problem of not being bright enough to be effective in many scenarios. Last week at NEC’s splashy …
