Futuresource’s ISE Wrap-Up: Price Erosion Continuing In LED; LCD Use Range Narrowing March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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, …
SignageLab Leverages SignageOS Platform To Create Full Digital Signage Platform February 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes I am catching up on notes from ISE, which is already two weeks ago, and trying to relate some of the quicker conversations I had. Every time I go to a big show like ISE, I run into unfamiliar companies, and I try – when I can – to stop and have a chat, so …
Nexmosphere’s Sensors, Controllers And Toolkit Aimed At Making Interactive Retail Easy February 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes Way, way back in the day – in my dark period doing business development work for software companies – the company I was with did a fair amount of custom work that involved triggering content to screens using sensors. If someone came within a certain range of a screen, or lifted something that made a …
BrightSign To Preview New Pair Of Budget-Friendly Media Players At ISE 2023 January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes BrightSign always draws a crowd at ISE and other trade shows, and those integrators and resellers heading to Barcelona in 10 days or so will get a glimpse of two new boxes added to the media player company’s line-up of little purple media players. Both boxes are being positioned as affordable and entry-level, will be …
ISE Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: MediaVue Systems January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event (sold out, sorry!) happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs. I like to …
Digital Signage Used To Pull Traveling Gamers Into Specialty Airport Lounges January 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes If I’m stuck in an airport because of delays or lengthy connection gaps, I’m finding a bar and a Bloody Mary, but a company called Gameway is offering a different time-killing distraction for airline travelers – a very 2023 version of a coin-operated gaming arcade. Gameway is building out a network of video gaming airport …
Samsung Adds Windows 10 Support For Its Retail-Focused Kiosks January 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes Samsung has taken the interesting step of adding Windows 10 support to its retail-focused all-in-one kiosks, having previously offered the display units only with Samsung’s proprietary Tizen operating system. The electronics giant made the announcement at the big retail tech show NRF, which is on right now in New York. Samsung says its new Samsung …
San Diego Startup Touts Skinny 55-Inch Display That Runs On Batteries And Mounts By Suction January 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes There are all kinds of qualifiers and buts that will come up about a company touting a light, skinny and portable wireless 55-inch TV that runs on a battery and attaches to walls by suction, but the concept is nonetheless interesting. The year-old San Diego startup – Displace TV – showed its gear at the …
