Papercast Shows How Its E-Paper Transit Screens Handle Canadian Winters February 4, 2022 by Super User A lot of the discussion around the viability of outdoor displays tends to focus, understandably, on whether a screen can extreme temperatures and glare – but winter brings other challenges. A small UK-HQ’d company called Papercast, which does e-paper displays for sectors like mass transport, put a post up on Linkedin that shows one of …
SF Startup Starts Marketing Its Own Take On Flip-Disc/Split-Flap Displays February 3, 2022 by Super User I don’t know if the modern takes on old-school flip-disc or split-flap sign technology would qualify as digital signage, but I’ve always liked the kinetic, noisy nature of signs that have madly spinning characters that eventually lock in and present a message – whether that’s revised train arrival times at a rail hall or drink …
Commercial Display Sales Almost Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels In US February 2, 2022 by Super User Commercial display and projector sales through U.S. distribution channels are coming back nicely after a big dip brought on by the pandemic, and despite supply chain issues. That’s the word from the Southern California research firm PMA Research (PMA) in the newest version of its all-displays sell-through tracking report – which looks at professional large-format flat …
Japanese 7-Elevens Testing Floating Virtual Screens For Touchless Transactions January 31, 2022 by Super User On the heels of word that a fast casual restaurant chain in Quebec is testing touchless self-service ordering kiosks comes news of 7-Eleven deploying test units of a touchless payment station in some of its Japanese stores. The program involves six different technology companies, with a division of Toshiba guiding the program. From a Japanese …
Nanolumens, Megapixel VR Partner To Optimize LED Video Wall Visuals, Security January 31, 2022 by Super User A big fine pitch LED video wall can be driven by nothing more than the same sorts of media players that push content to flat panel displays, but specialized technology tuned to video walls will tend to do a noticeably better job with the final visuals. Video wall processing was something I didn’t pay much …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Super User The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
Here’s A Pair Of LED Video Walls That Are Both Inside And Outside A Corporate Space January 27, 2022 by Super User Hat Tip to Jamie Finnegan of Media Resources, who posted on Linkedin about this project … Putting LED video walls inside corporate lobbies is certainly not new, and the same goes for LED boards outside of office blocks. But here’s a seemingly unique (or at least rare) set-up that sees a flanking pair of interior …
Expo 2020 Exhibit Mashes Up Kiosk, AR, Selfies And Projection Mapping January 26, 2022 by Super User The Al Wasl Plaza is one of the signature locations at the Expo 2020 exhibition that was COVID-delayed and now running through March in Dubai. There is a lot of technology all through the Expo site, but a Linkedin post via Christie shows a particularly inventive way to blend interactive kiosks, selfies, AR and projection …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Super User The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Super User Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
