LG Showcases Wavy OLED Wall, 1 MM OLED Digital Poster September 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Turn TVs Into Interactive Signs For $200 With New Gadget August 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. Called Touchjet Wave, it’s a device that clamps on …
Toronto’s IdeaLab Debuts Turnkey Kiosk Rental Offer August 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes Anybody who has sold digital signage product and had conversations with brand marketers has probably had rent-versus-buy questions thrown at them from people who like what they saw, but only needed it for a few weeks, not a few years. That’s stopped many projects and ideas in their tracks, because the options to rent a …
