Transparent LCDs Part Of Toolset Used To Solve Dutch Sex Assault Cold Case January 17, 2023 by Super User Police in the Netherlands used those shower-stall like transparent LCD set-ups in shopping malls to help generate leads on a series of sexual assaults of girls, tracing back more than a decade. The incidents go back to 2010, but an effort in late 2021 saw a composite drawing of the suspected offender put on public-facing …
Digital Signage Used To Pull Traveling Gamers Into Specialty Airport Lounges January 17, 2023 by Super User If I’m stuck in an airport because of delays or lengthy connection gaps, I’m finding a bar and a Bloody Mary, but a company called Gameway is offering a different time-killing distraction for airline travelers – a very 2023 version of a coin-operated gaming arcade. Gameway is building out a network of video gaming airport …
ISE 2023 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Esprit Digital January 16, 2023 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event happens because of eight great sponsors, who help cover the considerable costs. I like to thank and …
Samsung Adds Windows 10 Support For Its Retail-Focused Kiosks January 16, 2023 by Super User Samsung has taken the interesting step of adding Windows 10 support to its retail-focused all-in-one kiosks, having previously offered the display units only with Samsung’s proprietary Tizen operating system. The electronics giant made the announcement at the big retail tech show NRF, which is on right now in New York. Samsung says its new Samsung …
Swedish Grocer’s Flagship Adds Vast LED Display To Back Wall; Plus Digital Endcaps January 12, 2023 by Super User Here’s yet more evidence that LED has been mainstreamed by the people who design things like retail spaces – a supermarket in Sweden that now sports a 16-meter-wide LED videowall over the bulk food section. The 52-foot LED wall is in a flagship store of the grocer Maxi ICA, at the Stormarknad Universitetet store in …
San Diego Startup Touts Skinny 55-Inch Display That Runs On Batteries And Mounts By Suction January 10, 2023 by Super User There are all kinds of qualifiers and buts that will come up about a company touting a light, skinny and portable wireless 55-inch TV that runs on a battery and attaches to walls by suction, but the concept is nonetheless interesting. The year-old San Diego startup – Displace TV – showed its gear at the …
ISE Expects 1,000+ Exhibitors, About One-Third Include Digital Signage In What They Do Or Sell December 29, 2022 by Super User The organizers of Integrated Systems Europe say the 2023 edition of the show – the first in a few years to be somewhat close to normal – say they expect to host more than 1,000 exhibitors, including about 120 first-time exhibitors. A quick check of the exhibitor list, sorted by category, shows some 330 exhibitors …
Childhood Garden Digitally Recreated On Cafe Video Wall At Dior Pop-up In Seoul December 28, 2022 by Super User The famed fashion house Christian Dior opened a huge pop-up store in Seoul, back in May, that will be open for three years, celebrating the French brand. One of the big features of the concept store in the Seongsu district is a large LED media wall in the cafe, put together by the Seoul-based creative …
Transparent OLED Demo’d As Sliding Glass Explainer Overlay For Museums December 23, 2022 by Super User Photo: Yonhap News This is an interesting application of transparent OLED for a museum environment – demo’d by LG this week in Seoul at what was billed as the Transparent Future Exhibition at the Sejong Museum of Art. In the Culture & Entertainment Zone, LG showed how transparent OLEDs on a track/slider system could be …
Proto Gets Investment Backing From Ventures Wing Of Auction Giant Christie’s December 22, 2022 by Super User The LA company that somewhat mainstreamed the use of transparent LCDs as kinda sorta but not really holographic displays has got itself an interesting new investor – the venture/investments wing of high-end auction house giant Christie’s. Christie’s Ventures has made an undefined investment in LA’s Proto, on the heels of Christie using the shower stall-like …
