Rent The Runway Opens Digitally-Savvy NYC Flagship December 15, 2016 by Super User The upstart fashion retailer Rent The Runway – which rents designer clothes to women somewhat the way men have rented formal wear for many years – has opened a digitally-savvy flagship store in lower Manhattan. The store on W. 15th Street uses a variety of Samsung displays, including 32-inch touchscreen tandems that cycle through visuals but …
Christie Announces New Super-Skinny Bezel LCDs For Video Wall Market December 14, 2016 by Super User Christie has started marketing a new, premium set of narrow bezel LCD displays aimed at both the control room and digital signage markets. The new Extreme Series – blessed with the tongue-twisting product names common to display companies (FHD553-XE, FHD553-XE-R, FHD553-XE-H, and FHD553-XE-HR) – have some interesting wrinkles like pre-calibration, auto adjusting brightness (for changing …
UK Firm Touts Light, Flexible LCD Panels That Don’t Need To Sit On Glass December 14, 2016 by Super User As seen in Display Daily A Cambridge, UK company, FlexEnable, has started demonstrating a new type of LCD display that doesn’t need to be married with glass, has a fraction of the weight, and is flexible. The organic liquid crystal display (OLCD) technology supports full colour and runs smooth video, with the company suggesting digital signage …
Hungary’s Telenor Uses IntuiLab’s DIY Tools To Build Interactive Shopper Experiences December 13, 2016 by Super User The Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor has opened 13 digital concept stores this year that try to bridge how their customers work with them on mobile and on desktops, with interactive digital stations in the store. “We see that our customers start prefering our electronic channels over traditional customer service: they purchase their devices in our webshop, …
Viewsonic Latest Commercial DisplayCo To Add “Smart” Display Series December 13, 2016 by Super User LA-based Viewsonic is the latest commercial display manufacturer to introduce a set of digital signage-centric panels that come with embedded Android media players. The company’s new CDM Series comes in 43, 49 and 55-inch versions, and they are equipped with an A9 ARM quad core processor and 16GB eMMC storage, which can be expanded to 32GB …
In Digital Signage, Bigger Is Not Always The Answer December 9, 2016 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, Pronto TV I used to have an old wooden boat that I would spend a lot of time maintaining and polishing every autumn, to be ready for the next summer. Every year, my “boat-neighbors” swapped their boats to something a little bigger than last season. Instead of changing my boat every year, …
NanoLumens Ready To Assert Patents, Go After Makers Of “Cheap Imitations” December 7, 2016 by Super User When I had a long podcast chat with Rick Cope at InfoComm back in June, the founder and CEO of Nanolumens made it very clear he was about to go to legal war with a number of (mostly or all) Chinese manufacturers who were marketing LED display products that seem to borrow on Nano’s flexible …
Sharp Debuts Low-Cost Pro-Grade LCD Series December 2, 2016 by Super User Sharp has debuted a new value-priced but pro-grade series of small to mid-sized displays aimed at the digital signage market. The PN-Y series is available from 32-inches and up to 55. The PN-Ys are touted as an economical alternative to the PN-R series that was announced a few weeks ago, and are about 30 percent less cost than the units …
Projects: Mall Of America Adds Slim Digital Wayfinders November 30, 2016 by Super User Here’s a slightly different take on shopping mall wayfinding: smaller screens set at angles, instead of the jumbo vertical screens you mostly see in malls these days. This is at the Mall of America in Minneapolis – which I believe remains the largest shopping mall in the U.S. – and there are six of these, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Iles Guran, Armodilo November 30, 2016 by Super User Software and display companies get a lot of attention in the digital signage industry, but projects don’t happen without the gear that holds screens in place and keeps them protected. I travelled up to St. Jacob’s, Ontario – just outside the Canadian tech hotbed of Kitchener-Waterloo – to speak with Iles Guran, one of the …
