LG’s New LCD Screens As Skinny As iPhones December 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Projects: Holt Renfrew At Toronto Yorkdale November 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes Yorkdale is by most measures Canada’s premium shopping mall – the place where most luxury retailers establish their first flagship store in the country and where established retailers put in a lot of money to draw in crowds. Holt Renfrew equates kinda sorta to a Neiman Marcus store in the US – a decades-old luxury …
Europe Also Facing New Menu Guidelines November 26, 2014 by Jennifer Davis GUEST POST: Luka Birsa, Visionect The rules on what kind of information businesses must display for their customers vary from industry to industry, as well as from country to country. Take the hospitality industry and food allergen information for example. Whether disclosing the allergenic substances in the items on your menu is prescribed by law …
