Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Neeraj Pendse Talks About Elo’s Deep History In Touch, And How To Make Interactive Truly Work May 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes Elo has been doing touchscreens for 40 years – way, way before marketers started cooking up phrases like customer engagement technology. Over that time, the company has shipped more than 25 million units. So Elo knows touch, and interactive. Based in Silicon Valley, the company has in the last few years made a pretty big …
The Store With The Most Screens Doesn’t Necessarily Win April 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and …
