Reflective LCD Start-Up Azumo Gets $30M In New Backing For Expansion, R&D May 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Chicago display start-up Azumo just got a vote of confidence from investors, securing $30 million in new financing to drive international expansion, increase manufacturing capabilities and launch new products that use its low-power reflective LCD technology. Azumo’s core product is sunlight-readable, reflective “LCD 2.0” technology that it says can reduce LCD power consumption by as much …
Wow Factor May Get The Attention, But Give A Little Love To Boring Digital Signage May 9, 2022 by Jeff Juszczak GUEST POST: JEFF JUSZCZAK, SPECTRIO Big budget, grand-scale projects understandably get a lot of the attention when it comes to digital signage deployments, but leave some love in your hearts and busy minds for all the screens out there that are boring, and perfect for their tasks. Most of us get excited walking into a …
PPDS (Philips) Makes Senior Management Changes; Defines Three Global Heads Of “Strategic Pillars” May 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes PPDS – the company that markets Philips digital signage, interactive displays, direct view LED and pro TV products and solutions – has announced a major management re-org just ahead of ISE, the big pro AV trade show this week in Barcelona. General Manager Chris Colpaert has left PPDS after about four years, and three PPDS …
Boston’s Mass Transport System Deploying Ad-Free Customer Information Displays Across Network May 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (or MBTA) has started deploying what it calls pre-fare “Customer Information Displays” at subway stations in the greater Boston, running real-time information about the state of the system and service. The wall-mounted screens are located on the lobby level of stations, outside the fare gates. Right now the screens are …
Virtual Mike Blackman To Hover At ISE Next Week, Greeting Attendees May 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The people in charge of big trade shows are always kind of floating around the exhibition venue, but next week in Barcelona, ISE show director Mike Blackman will be floating at the main entryway greeting attendees. Well, sort of … The British firm HYPERVSN has worked a product positioning deal to get a version of …
Materials Firm WL Gore Uses Big Video Walls And Matrix Screen Set-Ups For Award-Winning Briefing Center May 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive blend of architectural and experiential design put together by a team for the new corporate briefing center of W. L. Gore & Associates, a materials science company. The center in Newark, Delaware is designed to help share the company’s heritage and innovations with partners, customers, and visitors. It recently won …
These German Digital Ad Totems Have Moss Backsides And Double As Sidewalk-Level Air Filters April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to AV Magazine for noting this … Digital OOH media companies have been trying to use smart city add-ons – like community WiFI and IoT sensors – to win city approvals and rights to put ad poster totems on city streets, but a German company has a different spin on all this: a …
Billboard-Maker Media Resources New Solution Compels Endlessly-Pooping Birds To Flock Off April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Toronto-area analog and digital sign firm Media Resources has developed an interesting partnership to use and sell tech that’s specifically designed to keep birds away from billboards. The company says it now has an “industry-exclusive distributorship” for Flock Off, described as a one-of-a-kind bird mitigation system that keeps birds away from billboards and other …
Watch: Sony R&D Playing With Projected Light Field And Transparent Displays April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Ed Tang for noting this on Linkedin I have nowhere near the technical chops/smarts to explain this properly, but Sony has a post up on a corporate R&D site talking about work in a company lab in Tokyo focused on light field-like and transparent displays. The Linkedin description from Sony says: Sony has …
Watch: Midtown NYC Office Block Gets Fantastic Digital Makeover In Common Spaces April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastic example of a corporate client buying entirely into the advice that creative should drive the decisions and designs when using technology as an architectural design feature. The big NYC commercial property developer Vornado Realty Trust engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to rethink the lobby and common spaces experience at PENN 1, a …
