Pivoting, Interactive Digital Street Signs Now For Sale In Europe January 18, 2017 by Super User I saw this thing in Amsterdam at ISE 2016, and the French company couldn’t give me much in the way of detail on how much or where it would be available – other than North American NOT being a planned marketplace. A year on, France’s Charvet Digital Media appears to have refined its digital street …
Planar The Latest Displayco To Add “Smart” Displays January 17, 2017 by Super User Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started marketing a 4K pro display series that includes an embedded, networked Android media player capable of driving 4K resolutions and ready for h.265 video and HTML5. It looks, however, like the only way to manage these displays is via Planar’s own ContentSmart management software – which at a quick glance …
Start-up Wants To Replace Stamped Metal License Plates With Smart Digital Displays January 9, 2017 by Super User A San Francisco-based company is showing an interactive digital license plate debuts today at the North American International Auto Show, which opened this week in Detroit. The rPlate is touted as the first upgrade in 125 years on license plates – a multi-functional display that can do things like DMV registration automation, hyper-local messaging, telematics and vehicle …
Panasonic, IBM Team On Watson-Driven Smart Mirror For Hotels January 8, 2017 by Super User Panasonic and IBM were showing a smart mirror/digital concierge last week during CES, at an offsite demo area run by IBM. The Panasonic Digital Concierge uses the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform as part of a digital envisioned as being installed in the rooms of, let’s assume, higher-end hotels. The idea is that a guest …
LG Showing Wallpaper OLEDs And Stacked OLED Columns At CES January 4, 2017 by Super User LG Display is evidently pushing all in on OLED displays this year, announcing a series of new displays that will be showing at CES this week and almost certainly at ISE in Amsterdam in a month. LG Display will show off paper-thin 65-inch and 77-inch UHD OLED displays for TVs that can be attached to …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions January 4, 2017 by Super User Rich Ventura now has the launch codes and the secret handshake instructions to act as the 2017 chairman of the Digital Signage Federation. He’s been active in the organization for several years, and has big plans for the year ahead. He’ll go into that in the latter half of this podcast episode, but we spend …
If Godzilla Was Into Reading, This Would Be His Kindle January 3, 2017 by Super User E Ink will be showing a 42-inch active matrix e-paper display this week at CES in Las Vegas. Think of it like a Kindle for Godzilla. The new display, 10-inches larger than the previous jumbo e-paper display (32″) is part of the E Ink Pearl product line for the company. Nobody needs a 42-inch Kindle and Godzilla …
And Now There Are Glasses-Free 3D Video Walls … December 30, 2016 by Super User Hong Kong-based Marvel Digital Limited will be at CES next week showing off a video wall that blends ultra narrow bezel displays with glasses-free 3D. Putting nine panels in a 3 by 3 set-up will result in a 138-inch diagonal digital canvas, which the company will have at booth 30264, South Hall 3, at the Las Vegas …
NFL’s Vikings Use Transparent OLEDs To Tell History Of Team Uniforms December 23, 2016 by Super User There were lots of “Ooohs” and “Aaaahs” when Planar started showing its transparent OLED displays about a year ago, but also some less enthused “Ohs” when it became apparent a 55-inch screen cost $15,000. So the question has begged since then – are many end-users buying the things? Answer – yes. There probably hasn’t been …
Superdry’s Berlin Flagship Tries On Gesture-based Virtual Dressing Room December 23, 2016 by Super User Via Retail Design Blog https://vimeo.com/195329834 I have mixed feelings about an interactive virtual dressing room-ish display set up at the new Berlin flagship store of apparel retailer Superdry. Put together by London-based SeymourPowell, it’s touted as an interactive “smart mirror” but the display is not a mirror and doesn’t use mirror glass … so, umm, it’s not. …
