Company Adds Screens To Anti-Theft Totems Common At Retail Gateways June 22, 2022 by Super User A Vancouver, BC-area company is marketing a display totem product for retail that, interesting, doubles up as a loss prevention tool. Just about any consumer will be familiar with vertical totems that shoppers need to walk though as they exit a store, with embedded electronics in the devices doing what’s called Electronic Article Surveillance loss …
Samsung Canada Adds Moneris Payments Terminals To All-In-One Kiosks June 21, 2022 by Super User Partners are important at the best of times, and they’re particularly important for a technology company trying to wedge its way into established business systems and processes like payments – so a deal Samsung’s Canadian wing has worked out with a payments company should help market the electronics giant’s new-ish retail kiosk. Samsung’s all-in-one kiosk, …
Sharp/NEC Repackage AI Audience Measurement Platform As NaviSense June 13, 2022 by Super User One of the announcements a bit lost by me in the InfoComm PR blizzard last week was Sharp/NEC revisiting and re-packaging its AI/computer vision IP as NaviSense. The product is positioned as “a cost-effective computer vision solution for gathering anonymous customer attributes using off-the-shelf or existing camera sources and processing them through a variety of …
Bluefin Adds Windows 10 All-In-One Screens Via New Seneca Partnership June 1, 2022 by Super User The all-in-one display company Bluefin has added Windows 10 IoT to its options for its smaller-format, retail-centric range of merchandising and marketing displays, through a new partnership with the custom PC firm Seneca. The units range in size from 13-32 inches, use an Intel Celeron processor and have touchscreen overlays. Bluefin got into digital signage …
Optisigns Adds Support For Apple TVs As Digital Signage Players June 1, 2022 by Super User The Houston, TX CMS software firm OptiSigns is the latest digital signage services provider to add Apple TVs to the list of hardware player options. The SaaS company’s play-out software was already compatible with Windows, Android, Linux, Raspberry Pi, BrightSign, Roku, and “LG Commercial” – which I assume means webOS smart displays. OptiSigns also supports …
BrightSign Previewing Beefy New 8K-Capable Players At InfoComm May 31, 2022 by Super User I’m going to interrupt this post with an important note – basically saying: See what BrightSign did here? The company is announcing a new product a week out from a big trade show, instead of announcing it during or immediately before the show, when people are too busy traveling, preparing or doing other things related …
Mellitron Broadens Outdoor Display Focus To Include EV Charging Stations May 21, 2022 by Super User The Canadian electronics enclosure manufacturer Mellitron has joined a growing list of outdoor display companies expanding beyond DOOH street furniture and QSR drive-thrus into electric vehicle charging stations. The Guelph, Ontario company (Guelph is outer-outer-outer Toronto) now has fully customizable Level 2 EV charging stations aimed at restaurant, retail, smart cities and other possible use-cases. …
AV Carts Get An Interesting Rethink In Peggy May 17, 2022 by Super User The core concept of AV carts that could roll a screen around a venue to where it is needed is anything but new. They were around in my schooldays, so shortly after man discovered fire. They’ve evolved through the years, and Samsung upended things a few years ago when it came out with The Flip, …
SiliconCore Launches New LED Driver Tech It Suggests Will Help Shape Future Of Premium Video Walls May 11, 2022 by Super User While much of the AV world is focused on what’s on show at Integrated Systems Europe, there’s another display industry show on in Silicon Valley that caters to the crowd that thinks up, designs, tests and sometimes releases new display technologies. Display Week 2022 – run annually by the Society for Information Display – is …
ISE 2022: Here’s A Round-Up Of Videos From The Show Floor May 11, 2022 by Super User I’m not there so I can’t do much more than relay news and observations from Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona – a big pro AV trade show Sixteen:Nine has in its must-attend rotation year to year … in more normal times. The general sense I get from reading and watching videos is that the show …
