UK Firm Demos More Sensible Approach To Screens In Retail Chiller Fridges April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes A UK retail hardware solutions firm called Theravada is at the Retail Technology Show in London this week, among many vendors, and is showing what it calls a Digital Food To Go Cabinet. It’s interesting because it is a more sensible approach to the idea of blending digital displays with retail infrastructure like chiller fridges. …
E Ink, AUO Partner To Develop Color E-Paper Poster Products Intended To Gradually Supplant Print Versions April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Two very different Taiwanese display manufacturers have teamed up up to develop e-paper displays aimed at gradually replacing the millions or billions of printed paper posters with richly colored, changeable, low-powered digital versions. E Ink has announced a strategic partnership and memorandum of understanding with AUO, one of the largest display manufacturers on the planet, …
Huge Digital Mirror Adds Experience In Sevilla Shopping Mall April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes This has been operating for a while, but I just stumbled across it this morning … It’s about the biggest digital mirror I have seen to date, in a shopping mall in Sevilla, Spain. Most of the displays I have seen that have a digital layer behind the glass have been in dressing rooms and …
Partners Start Marketing Mesh-Based Screen For Projected Visual Illusions April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Projections on near-transparent surfaces that create the visual illusion of 3D and holograms have been around for a bunch of years, but a Dutch start-up and its US sales and marketing partner are touting a new product that is based on a lightweight fabric-like mesh instead of a film. Austin, TC-based Screen Innovations, which markets everything …
Peerless-AV Adds One Display, One Mount Capability To Its “Seamless” LED Mounting System April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The specialty display and display infrastructure manufacturer Peerless-AV has debuted a new twist on its “SEAMLESS” universal LED mounting System – what the Chicago-area company says is an industry-first “one display, one mount” solution. This is not an area I know all that well, so let’s go with this helpful, chest-beating free description found on …
French ISP Free Opens Screen-Filled Experiential Concept Store In Paris-Area Mall April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The French internet services provider Free has opened a new concept store in a big mall just outside Paris that uses a lot of digital display and interactive to celebrate gaming – built on the idea that gaming is better and people are “Free To Play” when they have smoking-fast fiber connections and WiFi 7 …
Glass Media Now Marketing KrowdSense Retail Analytics Tech Designed To Optimize In-Store Visual Merchandising April 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes Glass Media is now formally marketing a new retail analytics platform the Dallas company was previewing late last year at Digital Signage Experience. At last I think so … founder Daniel Black showed me a few things, and that was four months ago. KrowdSense is positioned as a wireless occupancy scanner that can measure shopper …
Saudi Auto Dealer Invests Big In Custom Experiential Creative For Building And Showroom April 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Much of what gets run on big screens at auto dealer showrooms is, somewhat logically, what amounts to car, truck and SUV porn – gorgeous footage of vehicles rolling along everything from the dampened roads of downtowns to winding, oceanside highways. So it is very interesting to see a dealership drop some presumably serious money …
Esports Talent Managers SK Gaming Open Screen-Filled German HQ April 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is the new Cologne, Germany headquarters building of the e-sports company SK Gaming GmbH, a three story space loaded up with Sony pro displays, including a big 12 sq. meter super-premium Crystal LED that appears to be ready for active gaming. The building offers the company’s e-sports teams, customers, and employees an expo area, …
AV-Driven Portland Event Space Makes Pair Of Mosaic Video Walls Key Elements Of Venue Experience April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Clusters of flat panel displays that are not just set in rectangles or tiled rows are something that’s been seen through the years at a lot of trade show booths and in marketing materials, but there hasn’t been much evidence of real-world deployments. They’re out there, but you couldn’t argue that they’re commonplace. That noted, …
