Nanolumens Expands Beyond LED To Projection Surfaces April 29, 2015 by Super User It seems like all the display guys are branching out lately. First it was software and now display types. You may think of Atlanta-based NanoLumens as a company squarely in the business of making lightweight, skinny and modular LED displays, but now they’ve announced a clear transparent surface you’d liken to 3M’s Vikuiti film surfaces. The NanoClear …
Something New: Enclosures That Don’t Look Industrial April 28, 2015 by Super User The companies out there that do LCD panel enclosures for advertising and retail generally do a great job with the important engineering bits like heating and cooling, and durability in the face of an ever abusive general public. Where they don’t tend to excel is design. They tend to look like squared-off steel slabs. …
Video Display Embedded In Magazine Page April 16, 2015 by Super User Something like this has been done before, but it’s been a while and undoubtedly this stab at putting an LCD screen in a printed magazine is a step ahead. In this case, Chevy’s agency has worked with a tech company to put a video player on a page, embedded in an ad, in 10,000 copies …
Raspberry Pi Married To E-Paper, And They Make Digital Sign April 15, 2015 by Super User Here’s what I THINK is the first Raspberry Pi to be directly married to an e-paper display to make a rudimentary digital sign – the HAT Display from Percheron Eelectronics. The gadgets are being marketed via a Kickstarter project, at about $57 a unit, or 2 for $101. The HAT has a 2.7-inch e-paper display, as well as …
4K In Digital Signage: It’s Not A Sprint; It’s A Marathon April 15, 2015 by Super User I have a business contact I work with on video production, and I mentioned to him recently how it may well be time to step up production from 720P to 1080P, as that now seems to have settled in as the standard in digital signage video outputs. Nope, he said, we’re going right on past …
Triggered Content: What’s Old Is Somehow New Again April 2, 2015 by Super User More than 15 years in digital signage has, admittedly, left me a little jaded. What can excite a bunch of people barely gets a shrug out of me when I see it or read about it. Sometimes common sense tells you something won’t every really fly – like glasses-free 3D or most of the Stupid People …
Projects: Massive Curved Displays At Minneapolis Convention Center March 30, 2015 by Super User The Minneapolis Convention Center now markets to visitors using a pair of massive 5mm pixel pitch LED NanoLumens that curve around bulkheads at the facility. Installed late last fall, the NanoCurve displays cover an area 5 feet high by 90 feet wide. They were put in by Minneapolis-based Tierney Brothers Integration. The displays were schemed into …
Projects: Giant Convex Wall In UK Corporate Lobby March 26, 2015 by Super User This is what German display manufacturer Eyevis is touting as the largest convex curved video wall in Europe, set up at the new mass spectrometry headquarters of the analytical instruments company Waters Corporation in Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK. The 3.8 metres x 2.2 metres display wall welcomes Waters visitors in the reception area, and features 48 eyevis omniSHAPES rear …
Armodilo Rethinks Retail Tablet Enclosures March 26, 2015 by Super User Tablet stand and enclosure manufacturer Armodilo Display Solutions will be rolling a slick new wall-mounted enclosure for tablets this spring that pretty dramatically rethinks the idea of sticking an iPad or other tab in a protective frame. The new set-up, called LITE, is based on Armodilo’s AURA kiosk design. It shifts the set-up to a …
DSE2015: Sharp’s Wraparound LCD Display March 12, 2015 by Super User This is just a concept, and may or may not ever be a full product from Sharp, but it IS very nice. It’s a convex LCD with interior direct light inside a column to illuminate the LCD. The application would be columns in retail or public spaces, replacing printed graphics or flexible LED displays that …
