Next Week’s CES Will Switch On Quantum Dots Chatter, So What Is It … January 2, 2015 by Super User Las Vegas is about to be even more of a zoo than normal – if normal is a word you can attach to that city – as the annual Consumer Electronics Show ramps up. As it is every year, a lot of the stuff on the show floor and in the private areas is very …
Projects: 4K Displays Create Virtual Balconies On Cruise Ship December 31, 2014 by Super User This is pretty wild. The cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas ship has installed 80-inch portrait-mode 4K displays in its interior staterooms (the ones that could never have windows anyway) to create virtual balconies. The displays get a streamed feed – I’m guessing via fiber – from a set of high-def RED …
LG’s New LCD Screens As Skinny As iPhones December 29, 2014 by Super User The display industry is getting very close to that moment when flat panels are so skinny and light they can be hung on walls like artwork. Consider this: LG Display will be showing off a new line of TVs – called the Art Slim series – at CES next week in Las Vegas, with the …
Samsung Adds High-Brights To Smart Signage Line December 18, 2014 by Super User Samsung has announced a new line of 2,500 nit high-brightness displays in sizes ranging from 46- through 75-inches, with those system on chip media players built in. The OMD series displays are more than bright enough to park in high ambient light environments, as well as outdoor – the latter needing custom-designed weatherproof enclosure. The panels …
Projects: Ford Gets Touchy For Its Truth About Trucks December 17, 2014 by Super User This is a very nice deal … for someone. As many as 1,900 Ford dealers in the U.S. may deploy a new Truth About Trucks interactive touch product-information kiosk in their showrooms – a set-up designed to help move more Ford F-150 trucks. Much poking around has got me no closer to determining what vendors are …
Paper Madness In The Land Of Flat Panels December 10, 2014 by Super User One of my lingering impression of spending time last week in Seoul was how technologically advanced it was in so any ways, and how backward mobile retailing was in the land of Samsung and LG. This is a VERY typical Korean mobile carrier store. I don’t know enough about how things work over there, but …
Userful Launches Product that Delivers And Runs Ultra HD Video Walls Over Local Networks December 9, 2014 by Super User Last week a Calgary, Alberta company called Userful, unfamiliar to me, put out a press release about launching a world’s first 4K video wall product. Well, I thought, I’m, not sure how doing 4K is all that new in terms of resolution or running it off a network. There are some pretty good companies out …
Planar Now Shipping Monster 98-inch Multi-Touch 4K Panel December 9, 2014 by Super User This is a seriously big, crisp touchscreen … Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started shipping its UltraRes 98” Touch – which makes multi-touch available on a native 4K Ultra HD screen. It has 32 simultaneous touch points, and is designed for a collaborative applications like meeting rooms, training facilities and command and control centers. It would also do well for interactive …
Transparent Displays Finally Get Some Traction December 4, 2014 by Super User If you have been around the digital signage business for a few years, you’ve now seen for many years the nice little trick of using the interior lighting of grocery chillers and display cabinets to replace conventional back and edge lighting in LCD displays – effectively creating see through LCD screens. Great stuff, and many …
Projects: Big Displays, Tiny Pixel Pitch At Mercedes R&D Center November 28, 2014 by Super User German automaker Mercedes Benz sells a lot of vehicles in China these days, and earlier this month, it opened an R&D center in Beijing – with the customer areas including a couple of giant LED walls that have a very tight 1.9 mm pixel pitch. That’s tight enough to look at from up close without the …
