PORTL Closes $12M Fundraising Round To Grow Demand For Its Virtual Presence Products November 19, 2021 by Super User The company that has really pushed the possibilities for transparent LCD and marketed a quasi-hologram-ish virtual presence product called PORTL has just announced a healthy fundraising round. LA-based PORTL Inc. has announced the close of its $12M Series A round, led by TRUE Capital Management and funded by everyone from well-known tech investor Tim Draper to …
WHSmith Store Uses Massive Digital Facade For New London Stansted Airport Store November 18, 2021 by Super User Technical details have eluded me, but what I do know is the just-opened WHSmith store at London Stansted Airport went all-in with digital – with a huge, all-digital facade facing the concourse and screens all through the store. The travel retail focused online publication Moodie Davitt Report was at the store opening Wednesday and filed …
This Is National World Needs More Touch Day (And National Bundt Pan Day) November 15, 2021 by Super User In a clever, cheeky marketing move, the folks at TSItouch have registered with a service that marks today at The World Needs More Touch Day – which also happens to be the touch overlay company’s tag line. Says the listing on the National Day Archives listings site: World Needs More Touch Day serves to bring …
Digital Display Kiosks Doubles Up As Storage Lockers For First Responder Emergency Needs November 9, 2021 by Super User Here’s a very different take on adding functionality to outdoor digital display kiosks that mostly tend to exist as advertising faces – a locker on the side of the display that stores critical items used by first responders when something bad goes down. The LA-area manufacturer Olea has worked with a New Jersey company – …
Samsung’s New The Wall Promo Video Does Killer Job Explaining Tech With Visuals November 2, 2021 by Super User Manufacturers who send me written PR material that goes on and on, and on, about the technical specs of their display product too often seem to forget that what they sell is a visual product. They want to tell me in written material, instead of show me in pix or, better, in video! So it …
30-Meter LED Billboard Lights Up INSIDE A Munich Rail Hub November 2, 2021 by Super User Here’s more evidence of the mainstreaming of LED displays – in this case a scenario that has been using LED for a few years, but not often at this scale. This is a highway billboard-sized narrow pitch LED display at a main access point into the mass transport services below or near the Karlplatz, a …
Toronto Commuter Transport Network Expanding Use Of Real-Time Digital Signage Across Hubs November 2, 2021 by Super User People who need to regularly get around and across the Toronto area will be familiar with that busy city’s mass transport system, which involves commuter rail and buses and hooks in, where it can, with the city’s subway system. There has been digital signage for years inside stations, but now Metrolinx, the umbrella organization that …
Video: We Go Walkies At InfoComm 2021 With Manny And Ben Of Q Division October 28, 2021 by Super User Manolo Almagro and Ben Gauthier from the consultancy Q Division are down at InfoComm walking the floor and getting set to speak tomorrow morning. They very kindly offered to give me a quick walk-around and impressions from the floor. The quick summary: it’s busier than expected, but in the context of digital signage, there’s not …
Here’s A Very Clever Use Of Those LED Light Wand Thingies, For Generative Art October 27, 2021 by Super User I have hugely mixed feelings about those madly spinning LED light wand thingies that always seem to attract attention at trade shows. I think they’re gimmicks with short-term stopping power. I worry about any electronics in busy spaces that has moving parts, and these things spin like fans. And I dislike how they’re called holograms, …
Are Your Screens Looking Blue? There’s A Reason … October 27, 2021 by Super User Display Daily has an interesting post up (but behind a modest pay wall) about an issue with some flat panel displays that was relayed to me, but was technically kind of over my head. UK-based Display Daily editor Bob Raikes is very strong technically, so I passed along the photo link, curious about his thoughts. …
