NY Company Touting Rear License Plates Of Vehicles As Part-Time Ad Displays April 19, 2023 by Super User Digital billboards and street furniture displays have long been used to advertise products to motorists as they make their way around an area, but a small New York company is suggesting the rear license plates on vehicles can also double up as digital OOH ad displays. An industry friend sent along the link to a …
Sony Announces Deal That Puts AI Chip On Raspberry Pis April 18, 2023 by Super User It is reasonable to suggest that when the first iterations of Raspberry Pi single board computers came on the market, the main interests among the digital signage community was as a micro PC that – at $35 for a barebones device – could take some of the hardware cost out of digital signage. This was …
Merchandised Smartphones Turned Into Teeny Video Walls For Mobile Retailers April 18, 2023 by Super User Mobile retailers have long been regarded as environments that would really benefit from digital signage technology because of the constant evolution of devices and subscription plans, but I hadn’t really thought of the various smartphones on display in stores being used as digital signs. I came across a company called SensorMedia that does what it …
LG Launches “First” Digital Signage-Specific Projector, With Built-in SoC Smarts And webOS Support March 29, 2023 by Super User LG Electronics has taken the interesting step of developing and marketing a new 4K laser, 7,000 lumens projector it says is specifically tuned to the needs of digital signage applications. LG has been manufacturing and marketing projectors for years, but the main use-cases have been applications like corporate boardrooms and lecture theaters. What’s perhaps interesting …
Appspace Ties In Workplace-Focused Platform With Logitech’s Office Technology March 24, 2023 by Super User The software firm Appspace has long leveraged partnerships with larger (and sometimes much larger, like Cisco) technology firms to open doors and chase deals with enterprise-level customers. With the company’s heavy focus now on what it calls workplace experience, Appspace is doing the work to integrate with hardware partners, including ones its customers might see …
Peerless-AV Shipping New, Simplified Generation Of Outdoor Display Kiosks Tuned To Smart Cities Needs March 22, 2023 by Super User Peerless-AV has redesigned a set of specialty outdoor display products aimed at smart city applications, tuning these new versions to both marketplace demands and customer feedback. The suburban Chicago company has retired an older 55-inch smart city/outdoor high-bright unit and introduced new Single (KOP55XHB) and Dual-Sided (KOP55XHB2) models. The key upgrades, says Peerless-AV in PR, …
Visix Launches E-Paper Signs And Software To Support Workplace Hot-desking March 17, 2023 by Super User Atlanta-based CMS software and solutions firm Visix has started marketing a different take on managing multiple workspaces in office hoteling environments, using e-paper displays as reservation screens at desks. It’s a variation on meeting room signs, the main difference being how these small displays are small, lightweight, affordable and largely trouble-free. Visix has been doing …
Futuresource’s ISE Wrap-Up: Price Erosion Continuing In LED; LCD Use Range Narrowing March 15, 2023 by Super User The UK-based research and consulting firm Futuresource sent a pile of people – 22 market analysts – to Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, to walk the halls, talk to vendors and sit in on presentations. That investment and effort builds up knowledge and helps shape future reports, but the company very helpfully puts out a …
Renovated Hugo Boss Store Adds Split Flap Display To Shopper Experience On London’s Regent Street March 8, 2023 by Super User Here’s an example of an electro-mechanical display being used in high-end retail for interesting and different messaging, in this case for a newly renovated HUGO BOSS store on Regent Street in London. It is supplied by Vestaboard, a Silicon Valley start-up that specializes in split flap displays that share the same core design and operating …
PPDS Studios Opening Up In EU, UK And US To Support Sellers, Inspire End-Users February 24, 2023 by Super User The company marketing Philips digital signage and related pro AV solutions has started building and opening a series of showroom/demo/meeting spaces across Europe and North America under the handle PPDS Studios. Intended to support partners like system integrators, consultants, distributors, AV/IT designers/architects), as well as end customers, PPDS Studios have already opened in Amsterdam, Madrid, …
