U.S. Congressional Committee Chair Urging Government To Blacklist Big Chinese Display Manufacturers BOE, Tianma September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Michigan congressman who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is encouraging the U.S. government to blacklist a pair of giant Chinese display manufacturers over concerns that using display tech from that country for advanced US military systems presents a tangible security and supply chain risk. Congressman John Moolenaar has sent …
LED Curtain Creates Ambient Three-Dimensional Low-Rez Visuals In Paris Concert Hall Lobby September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes A three-dimensional display has to have some dimension and volume to be more than marketing 3D – though lots of 2D products trick the eye with transparency and clever creative. Here’s a very low-rez 3D display related to the beauty products brand CLARINS, a 360° art installation in the lobby of the Salle Pleyel concert …
Portuguese Youth Center Nicely Integrates Ribbon-Style Touch Into Center’s History Wall September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes This an interesting approach to doing an interactive video wall for a scenario in which budget restraints would almost certainly come into play – a touch-enabled stretch display on an otherwise printed wall display that provides a community youth center’s history and milestones. Floor to ceiling video walls are great, but the costs can be …
Here’s Something Far Closer To The Idea Of A Holographic Display, And The Company Doesn’t Use The H Word September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is far, far, far closer to being a hologram than most of the companies marketing their two-dimensional display tech as holographic, but even though the visual is genuinely three-dimensional, the company doing it doesn’t even drop the H word. This is a 3D Volumetric display developed by the Adelaide, Australia tech lab Voxon, with …
College Campus Food Delivery Robots Now Sport Ads On Cargo Boxes September 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Some sort of advertising is slapped on everything from commuter trains, cube trucks and taxis, and all the way down to the cargo boxes on the rear of scooters, so it is no surprise that a company that does its deliveries by autonomous rolling robots sees an opportunity in advertising. Berkeley, CA-based Kiwibot, most known …
Esprit Digital Now Gets To Fly King’s Flag At UK Office September 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to the good folks at Esprit Digital, the retail and DOOH focused specialty display company in a little town north of London. They just got a King’s Award for International Trade, adding on to the Queen’s Award for International Trade they won in the past. The award was handed out last week during a …
Swapping Posters And Backlit Logo Signs For Digital Screens In Bars Generates 30% Sales Lift For Beverage Brand September 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes NYC-based Videri has really raised its profile in the last couple of years, via marketing, trade shows and hiring some well-known and respected industry vets. But it has never managed to find a way to trumpet the work it does with a “whale” client. Until now. Kinda sorta. The company is most known for its …
Hair Styling Tool Brand GHD Uses Lift-and-Learn Solution Powered By Bluefin, Nexmosphere Tech September 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Retail-centric all-in-one display company Bluefin has an interesting case study online about helping a manufacturer get noticed in store, and thinking through the fine details to make the screens effective. Manufacturer GHD makes hair styling tools and competes in a many-many billions market for things that dry, curl or straighten hair, and the company decided …
Praevar, BrightSign Partner On All-In-One Outdoor Displays Aimed At Retail, SMB Markets September 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based specialty display manufacturer Praevar has started marketing what I think is the first large-format outdoor-rated display to have a BrightSign media player built into it, with the two companies aiming the solution at the small business market. Praevar has been making high-brightness transit shelter and totem displays for years for DOOH media companies, shopping …
BMW Has Plans To Actually Sell Cars Clad In Changeable E Ink Full-Color Film September 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to German content partner invidis for noting this … here’s my take: When E Ink worked with BMW to make a demo car to clad a vehicle with a color-changing film, it was widely regarded as an interesting bit of trade show booth eye candy for the throngs of gadget-lovers meandering the aisles …
