Company At Center Of Messy Walgreens Digital Chiller Deal Now Calling Itself CoolerX, And Touting (Of Course) AI January 24, 2025 by Super User A couple of US business publications have had stories up in recent days looking at the mess that has become the attempt to turn the refrigerated cabinet doors in Walgreens stores into media and sales promotions screens. That story has been pretty well-documented, but there are some new details available about how ugly it has …
Tech-Driven Stress Pod At Retirement Home Helps Patients, Staff Get Calm And Then Carry On January 24, 2025 by Super User LA-based Red Dot Digital Media, Wallboard, and the playout hardware companies Bluefin and BrightSign have teamed up on what seems like a very unique one-to-one screen application intended to reduce stress levels. The Soul Happy Mind Pod is a therapeutic enclosure that the staff and residents of a Florida retirement community can enter, shut the …
German Firm Longshine To Demo Color E-Paper Menu Boards At ISE January 23, 2025 by Super User In my meeting with E Ink last fall in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the company clearly indicated that digital signage was seen as a next big growth area for its color e-paper products. A series of announcements recently seem to back that up. At least a couple of companies will be at ISE showing large format “Kaleido” …
Future Displays: AUO’s Decade-Long Journey With MicroLED, From R&D To Market Leadership January 23, 2025 by Super User This is a digest summary of a profile story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … AUO was one of six companies that kindly stepped up to sponsor the report – the sponsor dollars covering off a lot of …
Chinese Manufacturer Finds A Way To Get Video Running Smooth-ish On E-Paper Displays January 23, 2025 by Super User One of the knocks – kinda sorta – against e-paper displays is that they only really support showing static images, and can’t run video like more conventional digital displays. A Chinese manufacturer called Dasung has started marketing a small E Ink-based monitor that does support video, and has a refresh rate equal to lower-end desktop …
ISE 2025 Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Sponsor Profile: Sony January 22, 2025 by Super User It is just a few more sleeps before the 2025 edition of Integrated Systems Europe starts in Barcelona, with the digital signage community kicking things off on the eve of the giant trade show with a Sixteen:Nine networking mixer. The sold out event – that took all of two hours – happens because of great sponsors …
Future Displays: How TSI Touch Quietly Built Up To Now Handle 70% Of The US Digital Signage Touch Market January 21, 2025 by Super User This is a reworked summary of a profile story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … TSI Touch was one of six companies that kindly stepped up to sponsor the report – the sponsor dollars covering off a lot …
Future Displays: STRATACACHE’s Billion Dollar Bet On Building America’s MicroLED Future January 20, 2025 by Super User This is a reworked version of a story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … I did a lengthy interview with STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel about the status of the microLED manufacturing – not just assembly – …
ESL Companies Start Harvesting In-Store Light To Power Shelf-Edge Displays January 17, 2025 by Super User Batteries have been the primary way to drive electronic shelf label displays in retail aisles, but a couple of ESL manufacturers have started working with a Swedish company that does the interesting work of harvesting power from in-store lighting. It’s a variation on the idea of using solar cell arrays to drive e-paper displays at …
Future Displays: E Ink Has Digital Signage Ambitions, But Costs And Formats Are Adoption Barriers January 17, 2025 by Super User This is a reworked version of a story from the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … Taiwan-based e-paper giant E Ink sees digital signage and digital out of home as a next big, scalable market for its larger color …
