Custom Panel Resizer Tannas Acquired By Investors January 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes Tannas Electronic Displays, the interesting little company that saws LCDs in half to make custom displays, has been acquired by investors and the name changed to Pixel Scientific. Tannas , says a news release, was sold in a majority stock purchase agreement to investors led by Richard McCartney of Scotts Valley, California. The new board …
Samsung Uses Robotics For Transformable Video Walls January 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital signage vet Tom McGowan was at CES last week – taking great advantage of avoiding most of the mayhem and high costs, because he lives south of the airport in Las Vegas and knows how to get to and from the LVCC with minimal fuss. He said he was interested in going not so …
Samsung Shows Off Mirror LCDs, Transparent OLEDs At CES January 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’ve been following all the tech writing coming from CES, and from my narrow perspective, LG seems to be getting more attention than Samsung when it comes to displays. LG has the bendy OLED and the double-sided OLED, and LG has certainly put more of a focus on OLED than its Korean rival in the past …
Projects: Twisting LED Sculpture Makes Waves In Houston Skyscraper January 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes Just stumbled across this now three-year-old project in a Houston, Texas office tower. The owners of 2 Houston Center wanted to spruce up the lobby of the 1970s skyscraper, so they commissioned Spanish multimedia artist Daniel Canogar to create what turned into “Waves” – a giant, suspended motion media sculpture made using more than 600 …
Here’s A Look At LG’s Two-Sided OLED Panel January 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Engadget … Here is that two-sided OLED panel that LG said it would be showing at CES this week, courtesy of an Engadget writer and his smartphone video camera. It was posted via the gadget blog’s Instagram account. It’s pretty wild to see something that skinny pushing out deep, rich video back to back. …
Acer Unveils 24-inch Chromebase With 10-Point Touch January 4, 2016 by Dave Haynes Acer has added a 24-inch version of its Chromebase all-in-one desktop ChromeOS boxes, with a 10-point multi-touch option that would make it suitable as a retail or public spaces touchscreen or kiosk. Acer released a 21.5-inch version last year. The Acer Chromebase 24 (CA24I) has the largest screen of all Chrome OS devices on the market …
LG Showing Rollable and Two-Sided OLED Displays At CES January 4, 2016 by Dave Haynes CES is not in my trade show plans this or most years. The show this week is way too big and busy for my tastes – and the great majority of what’s going to be shown and hyped there isn’t all that relevant to signage. There will be display tech and micro PCs, but there will …
Rollout Starts For LinkNYC Info-stations & Hotspots December 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes So how many techs does it take to plant a ruggedized touchscreen on a New York sidewalk? Many many, by the looks of it. The group behind those LinkNYC information stations/free WiFi hotspots/ad totems slated for NYC’s boroughs started installing the first ones this week, and photos have been posted by Civiq Smartscapes, and also …
South Korean Government Pumping $67 Million USD Into Country’s Digital Signage Industry: Report December 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will spend 78.9 billion won (or $ 67.3 million USD) to nurture the digital signage industry in that country, apparently seeing the sector as a growth engine. The report, in the Korea Herald, says that the ministry will, through 2018, plans to expand support for start-ups involved in …
London’s Transport Authority Testing Interactive E Ink Bus Stop Schedules December 24, 2015 by Dave Haynes London’s transport authority has started testing real-time electronic paper bus stops – solar-powered displays that can connect in to data that reflects cloud-predicted arrival times. The first unit is at a stop at Waterloo Bridge, and three more e-paper bus stops are due to be installed in January at Parliament Square, Piccadilly Circus and Sloane Square. …
