Nice Product, Baffling Name July 9, 2024 by Super User Perhaps it is a function of me being an age-certified old fart, but I think if you are going to call something a table, it should at least bear some resemblance to what we all know to be a table. Here we have what I think is a nice product with an utterly weird product …
Video: Watch How Dutch Start-Up’s Smart Glass Doubles Up To Produce Dynamic Visuals July 8, 2024 by Super User The Dutch start-up VideowindoW is going at the idea of turning windows into displays in a very different way from other manufacturers who have screens that attach LED arrays to glass or even embed the LEDs between laminated layers of glass. VideowindoW is instead mostly about a smart version of glare control, for big swaths …
ZetaDisplay Reaches Framework Deal To Update Screen Network On Stockholm’s Airport Express Train System July 2, 2024 by Super User The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay has announced a “multi-year exclusive framework agreement” that would see its software driving the screens on the rail cars and platforms of the express rail service that runs between central Stockholm and the city’s Arlanda international airport. This partnership, says PR, will see Arlanda express switching to ZetaDisplay’s …
Dallas-area Hospital Using One Of Those Giant Hologram-ish Displays For Telemedicine July 2, 2024 by Super User A small 84-bed acute care general hospital in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas is using one of those transparent LCD shower stall-like enclosures as a way to run real-time doctor-patient consultations, even though the patients are at a clinic 30 miles away. It is a VERY expensive variation on telemedicine – the big difference being …
Walmart Canada Testing LCD Ribbon SmartShelves That Show Pricing AND Consumer Reviews June 27, 2024 by Super User Walmart’s Canadian operation is running an interesting trial program at its biggest store in the country – using LCD ribbon displays in the crackers section of the grocery department as digital price tags, but also as product reviews. The crackers section has 28 feet of ribbon displays, and pulls consumer product reviews – let’s assume …
Uniguest Expands EPOS Support As Its Tripleplay CMS Gets Headless June 26, 2024 by Super User Nashville-based Uniguest is going down the platform/headless path with its venue-focused CMS software Tripleplay, tying it directly in with a variety of Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) systems to streamline menu updates for food services. The company has announced integrations for its IPTV and digital signage CMS for users of Venue Next, Shift 4, Kappture, …
PepsiCo Creates What Amounts To “Smart Can” Digital Signage Network Geared To Creatives And Influencers June 25, 2024 by Super User Beverage giant PepsiCo has debuted something it calls a Pepsi Smart Can – a version of its soda can that has a wraparound screen and electronics instead of liquid inside. The intent of the smart cans is to ship them out to influencers and the creative community, like those at agencies, as something of a …
Zoom-Zoom: InfoComm Videos Demo Curved Touch LEDs And Infinite Zoom Software June 21, 2024 by Super User Here’s a few videos from InfoComm last week that demo a curved, touched LED video wall, and interactive software that continues to genuinely blow my mind. This first one is a real world demo of curved yet multi-touch capable fine pitch display that is a collaboration between Planar and TSI Touch. For context, touch on …
New Streaming Curated Curated Digital Art Service Vieunite Pro Also Enables Workplace Messaging June 21, 2024 by Super User There have been several companies that have popped up offering subscription content services focused on digital artworks to be used on commercial displays – as one-offs or part of the mix in digital signage networks – but a newly launched service out of the UK blends curated artwork, screens optimized for display art, and a …
Video: Retailer Good American’s Screen-Filled LA Flagship June 21, 2024 by Super User I wrote back in January about retailer Good American’s display-filled flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA, and now the tech company providing the displays and management software has pushed out a video that does a good job of showing the what, why and hows of the set-up. Samsung provides both the …
