The Futuresource ISE Recap Is Out; Free And Worth The Download, But Here’s The LED Stuff … February 26, 2025 by Super User UK-based research and analysis firm Futuresource Consulting had 16 people on the ground at ISE in Barcelona earlier this month, and the team has once again generated a post-show report that digs quite deep into what was on the floor, sorted by categories and including stuff you might not care that much about, like audio. …
Amazon Opens Screen-Filled Bricks And Mortar “Parapharmacy” Store In Milan February 25, 2025 by Super User Online shopping and fulfillment giant Amazon has opened its first bricks and mortar store in Italy – a health and beauty store in Milan’s city centre filled with screens. The Amazon Parafarmacia Beauty store opened Feb. 12th, featuring a “curated” selection of beauty and personal care products from brands including Eucerin, La Roche-Posay, Vichy, Avène, …
Omdia’s ISE 2025 Pro Display Recap Suggests, Among Many Things, The Race To Finest LED Pixel Pitch Has Stalled February 24, 2025 by Super User The research firm Omdia has pushed out a recap of the pro display side of ISE 2025, which was run earlier this month in Barcelona. The company, which like other credible research firms sends analysts around the halls to meet with manufacturers, offers up the recap as a free read, but you have to register. …
Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Super User This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
Captivate, Videri Partner On Sleek Display Canvases For Common Spaces In Office Towers February 20, 2025 by Super User More than 25 years ago now, I left the daily newspaper business because it was pretty clear what the Internet would do to it, and I puzzled the hell out of colleagues by saying I was going to work for a start-up that puts screens in elevators that ran news interspersed with paid advertising. At …
Japanese Researchers Developing Energy-Sipping Display Tech Based Around … Clay??? February 20, 2025 by Super User Japanese researchers have developed a new type of energy-sipping display that uses clay-based materials and allows displays, including ones large enough to at least theoretically be used for digital signage, to both emit light and change color, making them readable whether people are looking at them in bright sunlight or darkness. I am decoding this …
Future Displays Now Has Some 1,400 Downloads & Views. It’s Still Available, Still Free! February 18, 2025 by Super User It has been a couple of weeks since I made any big reference to the Future Displays report, so I wanted to re-up word that it is still out there and still a free download. I met some folks at ISE who REALLY know their display tech, and was both gratified and relieved that they …
French Startup Uses Injected Inks As Alternative To Color E-Paper Display Tech (But It’s Early Days) February 18, 2025 by Super User A lot of the display chatter at ISE was about e-paper, and all kind of vendors big and small had demos that used E Ink’s technology as the core display tech. But there wasn’t much of the way of alternatives – except maybe these guys, who are still very early stage, but had a very …
Watch: I Talk Video Wall Infrastructure With Peerless-AV. You’ll Learn Stuff! February 18, 2025 by Super User I sat in on a half-hour “AV ON AIR” video podcast panel during ISE, hosted and moderated by well-known AV guy Chris Neto, and joined by Brian McClimans and Nick Belcore, equally well-known execs with Chicago-based Peerless-AV. The premise was about the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report, which was sponsored in part by Peerless-AV. The video …
Former NEC Displays CEO Bouman Now In Charge At Hologram-ish Startup Proto February 18, 2025 by Super User One of the eyebrow-raisers I read this morning as I started shovelling and sorting my email inboxes was word that the LA start-up that started and leads the niche business of hardware and services for hologram-ish transparent LCD displays has a new CEO – a guy coming over from the far more conventional side of …
