Armodilo Debuts Low-Profile, Low-Cost Tablet Enclosure Called Keyo January 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes The guys at Armodilo have built up a name and healthy business developing pretty but also rugged enclosures for tablets being used as one-to-one digital signs across a bunch of verticals, and now they’ve come up with a new line that is more about function and cost than form. The Keyo is a utilitarian-looking low-profile wall …
PixelFLEX Adds Bendy Hi-Rez LED Panels January 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes Nashville-based PixelFLEX has started marketing a new flexible LED video panel that would appear to go after the turf occupied by NanoLumens and some offshore clone-makers they’d like to sue. PixelFLEX has debuted a 1.9mm TrueFLEX LED flexible video panel – a high-rez panel that can handle, at least, a gentle concave or convex curved surface. This is …
New NYC Subway Line Upgrades Interactive Kiosks January 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Link NYC smart cities screens that have started dotting the sidewalks of Manhattan now have cousins in the subway system – new variations on the MTA On the Go (OTG) kiosks that have been in the system for some time now. There are eight screens in three stations on the loooooooong-awaited new line, which opened …
Sharp Hints At Move Into “Smart” Displays January 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes It looks like Sharp will join the swelling ranks of big display manufacturers selling professional monitors with System on Chip players built inside. The systems integrator online publication Installation has an ISE preview interview with Sid Stanley, Sharp’s Europe GM for Visual Solutions, who says Sharp will be “significantly expanding our signage presence with a range …
Projects: Interactive Displays Guide Vera Wang Style Choices January 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes This a pretty standard touchscreen application developed for weddings-centric fashion designer Vera Wang, but I like how this video shows the thinking behind the user experience and the use of a set of guiding questions on style to get users more quickly to what interests them. In a truly long distance collaboration, Wang’s team engaged …
NanoLumens In Midst of $30M Raise To Boost Production, Marketing January 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes It looks like Atlanta-based specialty LED display manufacturer NanoLumens plans to put its foot on the business gas pedal in the coming year, as it is in the midst of a $30 million investor round for capital to boost production and marketing. The company, reports Atlanta Business Chronicle, has already raised at least $7 million of …
Top 10 Video Wall Trends For 2017 January 20, 2017 by Hoa Tong Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful With the new year now in full swing, the technology industry is looking ahead to the big, broad trends that will drive video wall decisions and win over video wall budgets in the year ahead. Here’s my countdown on the top trends will see emerge or continue in 2017: 10: Continued …
City Of Toronto Weighs Media Partnership To Juice Up Major Square With Yet More LED January 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Urban Toronto The city of Toronto is going down the interesting path of being a major media partner in the city’s busiest public gathering point – Yonge-Dundas Square. A proposed $3.8-million deal for Outfront Media to put in a series of large format LED screens in the square has cleared the city mayor’s executive committee, …
Pivoting, Interactive Digital Street Signs Now For Sale In Europe January 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
