Alpine Mecca Uses Solar-Powered E-Paper Signs To Guide Visitors June 1, 2021 by Super User E-paper digital signs have been used outside for real-time transit stop information and local directories, but I can’t recall them being used quite like they are in the scenic Bavarian village of Oberstdorf. The area is a skiing and hiking mecca, attracting visitors year-round – a lot of them new to the area and filled …
Sony Adds IR Touch To 4K Pro Displays Via TSItouch Collaboration May 25, 2021 by Super User Sony’s 4K HDR commercial displays are now touch-ready, via a technology collaboration that puts TSItouch’s infrared (IR) multi-touch on the 55, 65 and 75-inch models of Sony’s BRAVIA – the BZ40H series of pro displays. The pitch with the TSItouch Pulse Type IR tech is that it can detect virtually any input – including a finger, gloved finger, …
Smoothie King Franchisees Shifting From Analog Posters To Digital Menu Displays, In And Out May 25, 2021 by Super User Here’s a real-world example of why QSR restaurant franchise owners would make what can be substantial capital investments to convert from analog to digital menus at their stores. Operators of Smoothie King franchises in several U.S. states have been converting menu displays inside and outside to digital to speed turnarounds on changes and have a …
2020 NBA Title Ring Virtualized And Sold As Crypto Token, Based On PORTL’s Transparent LCD May 24, 2021 by Super User I’m putting out there, immediately, that I understand maybe half of the following, as it has something or other to do with crypto-currencies and memorabilia. The LA start-up PORTL, which does a very clever job of making transparent LCD look like three-dimensional hologram displays, has announced it has created the “world’s first volumetric pro sports …
Amscreen Expanding Display Business Across Atlantic To Americas Markets May 21, 2021 by Super User If you have been around the industry forever, like me, you may recall many years ago an early UK media network in chain retail stores that was based around a small-ish LCD on a counter-mounted pole or wall, with a low-rez LED ticker above it. That company, Amscreen, has evolved quite a lot through the …
South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens May 21, 2021 by Super User This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. It would be quite common, these days, to see that big wall clad side …
Wicket Software Gets Patent For AI-driven Access Controls To Venues May 20, 2021 by Super User I assume or at least hope that software companies who develop access control systems that mash up computer vision, sensors and screens – for retail and other kinds of venues – will have had a look over the patents out there before getting too deep into product development. Here’s one reason: The Philly-area software firm …
Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience With Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall May 19, 2021 by Super User This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. Opened a couple of months ago, Starbucks says: The interior of the …
Display Week: Start-up Brelyon Shows Perceived 122-Inch Viewing Canvas On 32-Inch Screen May 19, 2021 by Super User In my virtual wander along the exhibitor aisles of SID Display Week, I am looking for display tech that is either a big advance on what’s already out there, or very different. I came across a Silicon Valley start-up called Brelyon that has an immersive display that delivers an immersive virtual reality experience, without the …
Google’s Project Starline Touts Hologram-ish, 3D Video Calling May 19, 2021 by Super User Google had its annual I/O conference yesterday, and among the new pots and pans the tech giant said it was working on was something called Project Starline – a very involved, more lifelike take on video calling. It is something akin to a video calling booth that has a 65-inch display that relays, in real …
