Projects: Toronto’s Union Station Ties Up Ads With LED September 18, 2015 by Super User Anyone who commutes into Toronto by rail can tell you what a confused, awful mess its main rail station has been for many years, and fortunately the long-running effort to spruce it up is starting to be revealed. The new York Concourse area opened recently – and it doesn’t feel like a basement storage hall for …
Projects: Rockwell Puts Its Merchandising Screens On Rollers September 11, 2015 by Super User Here’s an interesting digital merchandising set-up I bumped into at my local Canadian Tire store – a big dedicated store within a store zone for the power tool maker Rockwell. What caught my eye were screens on both sides that were set up on roller tracks, so that they could be pulled left or right …
LG Showcases Wavy OLED Wall, 1 MM OLED Digital Poster September 4, 2015 by Super User LG Display has started showing off a set of OLED display prototypes that will get people who design retail and corporate interiors thinking about the possibilities. An LG press release suggests its CEO and President, Dr. Sang Beom Han, talked a lot about OLED in his opening keynote speech at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Dr. Han, says …
Projects: New Tech Center Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Columns September 3, 2015 by Super User This is the new Technology Center of Excellence that connectivity and IT services firm CenturyLink has opened in Monroe, Louisiana – with 37,000 square feet of nanotechnology glass that tints automatically and three big NanoLumens wrap-around displays inside. Opened earlier this year, the building alone makes a pretty big statement, but the company wanted to amplify that with …
DSrupted: The Future Is About Pixels Everywhere September 1, 2015 by Super User So much has happened on the software and computing side of the digital signage business in recent years that I think we tend to overlook how much has also happened on the display side. When I got into this business 16 years ago LCD panels were small and crazily expensive, and the big flat panels …
LG Starts Shipping Flat, Crazy-Thin OLED TVs August 26, 2015 by Super User We all know that using TVs for digital signage isn’t the best idea, for a variety of operating and technical reasons. But people who do this stuff day in and out also know that a lot of TVs get used – to shave costs, because the demands are pretty light, or because the TVs just …
AOPEN Adds Chromebase Commercial All-In-One To Chrome OS Line-up August 20, 2015 by Super User Taiwan’s AOPEN has followed up the recent release of its commercial-grade Chromebox with Chromebase Commercial all-in-one display, aka big-ass tablet. The solid state 22-inch display is billed as a versatile, tamperproof and zero maintenance device for such uses as Point Of Sale, small kiosks or retail end-caps. The unit is multi-touch panel with some degree of waterproofing …
Projects: Book Comes To Life In Silicon Valley Mall Display August 20, 2015 by Super User Speciality display maker Volanti Displays, based just south of Silicon Valley, teamed up recently with a nearby luxe shopping mall – Westfield Valley Fair – on a very different digital window used to promote the Michael Kors fashion line. The base idea was to borrow on the set-up of a shop window, but pull it into the middle …
Apple Reported To Be Dumping iPads As In-Store Smart Signs August 19, 2015 by Super User The Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple’s impending store refresh will include a change in how it handles merchandising and product information. “With this Apple Store refresh next week,” the blog reports, “Apple will be pulling these aging iPad 2s from most of its stores. Instead of Smart Signs, Apple will begin pre-loading price …
Planar Acquired By Chinese LED Firm Leyard August 13, 2015 by Super User The blending of LED and display technologies and companies continues. Specialty, high-end display panel maker Planar Systems has been acquired by the Chinese high-end indoor LED firm Leyard Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. The companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement, that would see a U.S. affiliate of Leyard acquire all of the common stock of Planar …
