Cranky General Public 1 – Smart Screen 0 January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. So …
Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber …
LG Now Actively Marketing Its Transparent LED Film For Glass Surfaces January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those …
A Huge 260-Screen OLED Waterfall Scene Greets LG’s CES 2019 Stand Visitors January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Last year, CES visitors to LG’s stand walked along an OLED screen canyon. This year, there’s an OLED waterfall … kinda sorta. LG’s sprawling CES booth, by the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center, has 260 OLEDs in a dramatic, wavy waterfalls-like set-up. The OLED Falls exhibit has 76 concave, 72 convex and 112 flat …
Nanolumens CEO Rick Cope Has Left Company He Founded January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Nanolumens founder Rick Cope has left the company he founded and ran for several years, to pursue (as the saying goes) other interests. The colorful former US Marine built the Atlanta-area company up from the idea stage – marketing indoor LED displays that were skinny, light and flexible to a pro AV industry that had …
First OLED, Then QLED, And Now ULED January 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes First there was OLED. Then QLED, which looks like OLED but is actually LCD tech. Now there is also ULED, which is like QLED, but different. The Chinese display manufacturer Hisense has started touting, via its CES appearance, ULED displays – which are conventional 4K LCDs that have a second LCD layer, using Quantum Dots …
A Sliding Shelf-Edge Display That Recognizes The Products It Fronts January 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Stumbled via Linkedin on this video post about a retail merchandising solution that puts a tablet on a slider rail in front of a bank of related products. It’s from a San Francisco area company called OnQ that designs and manufactures category displays for retailers and brands. Instead of “push to learn more” buttons, sensors …
Samsung Debuts Jumbo And TV-Sized Versions Of The Wall Micro LED Display January 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung now has jumbo and small versions of The Wall – the micro LED display it introduced year ago at CES. The Korean electronics giant’s First Look CES 2019 event today features a new 219″ display and a 75” version that’s in line with the form factor for large TVs in homes. At last year’s …
New Digital OOH Screens On London Tube Seem To Miss Creative Opportunity January 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes The media people have to sell it, and the content creatives have to develop it. Which is maybe why the new digital screens in the escalator wells of London’s famed subway system seem to be missing an opportunity. The old display panels were replications of posters that stair-stepped up and down the escalator side walls, …
How McDonald’s Has Made In-Store Interactivity The Norm January 2, 2019 by Brandon Harp Guest Post: Emily Ingram, Prendi Consumer expectations are advancing rapidly, and businesses will benefit if they keep up with it. Here’s a look into how McDonald’s have tackled this, to meet our growing expectations. I walked into McDonald’s the other day with a colleague, who went immediately up to the touchscreen kiosk to complete her order. Now …
