German Firm Has Turned Raspberry Pis Into Serious Industrial-Grade Network Devices May 30, 2023 by Dave Haynes Low cost Raspberry Pi’s micro PCs have been part of the digital signage ecosystem for probably a decade now, but one of the knocks against the devices has been the need to put together the various hardware components – including a case – to come up with a serviceable, sufficiently rugged unit to put in …
Watch This Video On How An Apparel Brand Uses Dynamic LED Lighting To Drive Experience May 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes This video (below) does a nice job showing how simple LED lighting strips can add a lot of visual interest to businesses like retail. It is used by Stradivarius, a retail chain that sells women’s apparel (not priceless, centuries-old violins). It’s a Spanish company, part of a larger group that also owns Zara. The design studio …
How About An LED Video Wall That Folds Into A Golf Bag-Sized Roller Case? April 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Chinese LED display manufacturer has started marketing a solution that puts a totem-sized video display for the rental and portable market inside a roller case that’s roughly the size of those used by traveling golfers. As demo’d on Linkedin, the set-up from the Shenzhen company KX Display is stored in a heavy-duty travel case …
NY Company Touting Rear License Plates Of Vehicles As Part-Time Ad Displays April 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
