E Ink, Hanshow Launch 13.3-Inch Full Color E-Paper Display For Retail October 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is what’s at least described as the first commercial application of a full-color electronic paper display in a retail environment – at an Aeon China store in Changsha. I put the “described” qualifier in there because there often ends up being another example, done somewhere else. Whatever the case, it is certainly indicative of …
Wi-Charge Adds A 9-Inch Shelf-Edge Display To Its Battery And Cord-Free Product Line October 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Israeli tech firm Wi-Charge has added a 9-inch flat panel display to its product line – larger than earlier models but like those, powered over the air without using cables or batteries. Nine inches may seem small to digital signage people who now regard 55-inch flat panels as being small-ish, but these are intended …
Photos: Here’s A Look At That Solar-Driven Color Billboard Tech October 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here are some photos I asked for that show the public demo of that Israeli company’s very different approach to making billboards both digital and also sustainable. KA-Dynamic Color and a NYC partner Sign Expo got the OK to show a portion of its billboard tech in a park yesterday and again today (at the corner …
LG Starts Marketing EV Charging Stations With Integrated, Multi-Purpose Touch Screens October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG’s energy solutions business is huge, particularly with respect to EV batteries, so it is logical that the company is pushing deeper into EV charging solutions with a new fast charging station that bakes in a touchscreen display. LG Business Solutions USA has announced it has started taking orders for its first Level 3 DC …
Israeli Start-up Demo’ing Full Color Highway Billboard Tech That Uses Almost No Power October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes An Israeli company is doing a demo next week in New York of billboard technology that you might think is what would happen if color e-paper and electro-mechanical technologies snuck off to a hotel room and ended up with a baby. The product developed by KA-Dynamic Color uses a distinct type of reflective display tech …
Walmart Using Digital Menus To Market New In-Store Pet Services Centers October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes US retailing giant Walmart has started opening what it calls pet services centers, offering what amounts to one-stop shopping for routine pet care needs and using big digital signage displays behind the reception desk to relay what’s available. The stores within the bigger store offer in-person and virtual veterinary care, pet prescription delivery, grooming services, …
Info Screen In Way Of Subway Station Renos, So Construction Crew Just Builds Around (Most Of) It October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes There will hopefully be some logic to this, but here’s a screwball workaround to dealing with passenger information displays while a subway station is undergoing renovations. Instead of taking a ceiling-mounted display down, the framing crew just built around the screen, so that just a portion of it is now visible to riders. This is …
ARHT Media Files For Bankruptcy; Hologram-ish Display Solution Doesn’t Realize Needed Scale October 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Toronto company marketing its take on those shower stall-like transparent LCD displays has filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations at a main and satellite offices, laying off staff and contractors ARHT Media is/was among a handful of startups selling a solution that is mostly about enabling remote appearances by capturing people in front of …
Super-Clever LED Fins Make Store’s Media Facade On Narrow High Street Visible To People Approaching On Foot October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastically well-conceived, engineered and executed digital media facade on the front of a perfume company’s flagship store and HQ in Andorra. A set of vertical LED fins enable views from people walking toward the building, even though the pedestrian-only high street is very narrow. Barcelona-based creative technology studio Instronic did the job …
You Probably Didn’t Know The Plasma Display Industry Is Killing It These Days September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have written probably too many times about Indian research factories and suspect reports that invariably show a sunny outlook for whatever looks like an industry, and despite those efforts, I still see all kinds of vendors (and one hopeless trade publication) still referencing the reports and giving them unearned legitimacy. I won’t go over …
