UK Firm Touts Light, Flexible LCD Panels That Don’t Need To Sit On Glass December 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
The Dawn Of Digital Signage For The Dead November 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Gary Kayye for writing about this recently … What if a service at a funeral home wasn’t a dark, deeply uncomfortable experience most people just wanted to get through? What if it was more of a celebration – that used technology to tell the story of a loved one’s life? That’s the premise behind …
See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. The free Digital Design Tour app provides location mapping, visuals and details …
