SID Making Its Annual Display Nerd Fest More Visit-Friendly For Less Technical Attendees April 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Society For Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek conference and exhibit hall is really good event for anyone interested in seeing what’s in the works for pro display in three to five years, or longer, but it can be a bit bewildering for people who don’t have degrees in electrical engineering. The display nerd fest – …
Ticketing Starts (And Likely Ends) Tomorrow For XUSC Mixer At InfoComm April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Several emails have been coming in asking about plans for a Sixteen:Nine Mixer at InfoComm, including sponsorship requests, but I am both sorry and happy to report that there are no plans for a mixer in Orlando. Sorry because people enjoy them. Happy because planning and executing mixers is a pile of work. But there …
AUO Showcasing New Kind Of Energy-Sipping LCD, And Two-Sided Transparent MicroLED, At Touch Taiwan April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Probably the biggest vendor at Touch Taiwan this week in Guess Where is AUO, the giant white-label display manufacturer that has its main office about an hour south of Taipei. The company has pushed out an advancer piece talking about stand highlights, and the two that seem most interesting involve a new kind of energy-sipping …
Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
Digital Signage Summit Europe Releases First Look At Three-Day Program For Munich April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes My friends at the German consulting, events and publishing firm invidis have pushed out more details on the 2025 version of the excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe it runs each year in Munich. The event is back at the Hilton Munich Airport from May 21 to 23, 2025 – this year with a full three-day program. …
E Ink Develops New Large-Format, Color-Rich Marquee Display Tech Focused On Outdoor Use-Cases April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes E Ink appears to have sorted out a way to address the main criticism – apart from cost – of its push into large form-factor color e-paper displays as replacements for outdoor advertising and promotional printed posters, with new Marquee technology that uses a four color particle system like E Ink’s smaller, indoor-focused Spectra 6 …
Edgefactory Transforms IT Software Firm’s Event From Sales Kickoff To Immersive Experience April 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes While big LED video wall or projection backdrops are now common for business events – particularly those involving tech companies – Quest Software really went to town with its recent NXT 2025 sales kickoff meeting in Boston – hiring on event production company edgefactory to transform a traditional corporate gathering into an immersive, engaging experience. …
Retail Technology Show Opens Tomorrow In London; 15,000 Retail Folks But Only 10 Or So Digital Signage Vendors? April 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes It’s a silly thing, I know, but I am fixated on this notion that suppliers and service providers targeting a specific vertical market might want to put some investment and resources into being at the largest events in a region that address that market. So it’s a bit puzzling to see how few digital signage-focused …
Automaker Renault Uses LED-First Future Stores For Pop-Up London Showroom For EV March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m not through London that often, so it’s not clear to me if the hyper-ambitious, LED-first Future Stores pop-up experiential retail set-up on Oxford Street is steadily or only periodically booked. The Future Stores website suggests the Renault event on March 22-30 in the flashy high street store is the first since a Nordic fashion …
Digital Signage Summit Europe Adds Third Day For May 2025 Edition In Munich March 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes My friends at the German consulting, events and publishing firm invidis have started marketing the 2025 edition of Digital Signage Summit Europe, the flagship version of the series of DSS events it does though each year, usually tied to large regional trade shows. This one is a full conference and micro trade show, and will for …