Projects: Selfridge’s Takes Its Staff Communications Digital July 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a look inside how digital signage is being used for internal communications by iconic UK retailer Selfridges. AV integrator AVMI has put a high-impact LED wall at the London offices’ “Team Tunnel” and a network of over 30 Samsung Smart Signage screens at Selfridges office and retail locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and London. …
Aug. 8th Webinar Looks At Protecting Digital Signage Against Hackers July 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes An awful lot of the webinars that get organized by vendors or trade associations tend to re-visit familiar territory, but a session coming up in early August is, I think, the first to get into the touchy subject of preventing digital signage displays from being hacked. LED display manufacturer NanoLumens is running an August 8th …
LG Starts Loyalty Program Aimed At Architects, Designers July 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Business Solutions of LG’s US operations has started a loyalty program aimed at architects and design consultants, built around providing access to resources, support and training related to commercial display products. The LG PRO Design program is aimed at people who are often involved in the integration decision-making process for large public and commercial projects, from …
AOpen, Sharp Announce New Snap-In Windows Media Players For Digital Signage July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes The options for all-in-one displays continues to broaden, with Sharp announcing a partnership with AOPEN that allows a small Windows 10-based media player to be slot-loaded in a 4K screen. The new arrangement uses the mini version of the Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) launched a few years back by Intel. Several companies have or have …
Provision’s Floating 3D Holographic Coupon Station Going Into Ohio Drug Store Chain June 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies continues to find clients that get excited about its technology that shows consumer floating products in mid-air, as a carrot to get shoppers to use a coupon center. The company has announced a deal to put its proprietary 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores around Ohio. The chain currently has …
IAdea Ships Small Smart Displays With Built-In Meeting Room Availability Light Bars June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes The meeting room signs market has grown to a point now that hardware manufacturers now make red and green LED colour bars part of the regular kit they sell with small, all-in-one displays. It wasn’t long ago, at all, that digital meeting room signs were pretty much done with consumer tablets or small open-frame LCDs. …
NEC Donates 2,000+ Displays To Charity Hospital Ship June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions of America has stepped up in a big way to indirectly help sick and injured people in some of the poorest places on the planet, making a gift-in-kind donation of more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays to Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries. NEC Display will …
Projects: OLEDs On Walls And Ceiling In Seoul Skyscraper Elevator June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes The elevator that takes visitors to the observatory level of the Lotte World Tower skyscraper in Seoul is lined floor to ceiling, AND ceiling, with OLED displays that for the minute-long ride up immerse people in scenes of the Korean mega-city. The building is 555 meters (123 stories) tall, making it the the world’s fifth …
Back From The Dead: Transparent OLED, This Time Even Bigger June 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes Transparent OLED was nowhere to be seen (or at least well-hidden) last week at InfoComm, but the tech is not dead. ZDnet (among many tech sites) is reporting that LG Display has developed a 77-inch transparent flexible display with Ultra High Definition (UHD) resolution. “The development project was backed by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, …
Projects: 700-Plus Wide Band Of LCDs At Orlando’s Airport June 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes One of the InfoComm Big Canvas sessions I put together last week in Orlando took an in-depth look at the massive video wall steadily being put in place at Orlando’s primary airport. We had Seattle’s Synect, which did the content, RP Visuals, which did the mount structure, and LG, which won the deal for 700 …
