DISPLAX Turns Stretched 86-Inch LCD Into Wall-Mounted Piano February 28, 2022 by Super User This is a clever interactive display experience that converts an 86-inch stretch LCD display into a electronic keyboard. The demo developed by the Portuguese interactive technology shop DISPLAX probably has a limited range of practical applications, but has the benefit of being something loads of people would play with in a trade show stand, museums …
There’s A New Version Of That Digital Poster On Wheels, But The Original Question Persists: Why? February 25, 2022 by Super User I wrote a couple of years ago about a Dubai-based company that was marketing a three-sided ad poster on robotic wheels, and asked the simple question: Why? That company is still around, and RoboAds says it now has a new version – the RA-200 – that it calls the “most sophisticated signage robot that has been …
Hughes Wins BurgerFi Deal Bundling Digital Signage With Network Infrastructure, Managed Services February 24, 2022 by Super User Here’s a good example of how a service provider can win digital signage deals by also bringing a lot of other capabilities to the dance – Hughes Network Systems enabling the guest experience in the BurgerFi restaurant chain by providing all the networking technology, signage software and managed services. The fast casual chain and a …
Touchscreens, Other Surfaces Present Little Or No COVID-19 Transmission Risk: Research February 23, 2022 by Super User It’s been roughly two years since COVID-19 became a daily discussion and the industry started wondering what all this would mean to business and the use of interactive technologies that encouraged touch actions. In the early days of the novel-coronavirus pandemic, it was widely thought that the pathogen was spread by touching surfaces, prompting no …
Custom LCD Maker Bluefin Starts Marketing Open OS All-In-One Panels February 22, 2022 by Super User The Atlanta-area custom LCD manufacturer Bluefin International has been around the industry for several years marketing a variety of retail-centric screens that have BrightSign media play-out hardware built-in, but now the company has added a series with a dual CPU set-up that can run Android 10 or different flavors of Linux like Debian. Bluefin’s new …
Louisville’s Bus Routes Add GPS-Updated Rider Kiosks February 9, 2022 by Super User The LA-area digital signage solutions provider Red Dot Digital Media has an interesting technical case study out on a project done with Silicon Valley media player shop BrightSign for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), a major public transportation provider in Louisville, KY. The project saw a network of digital kiosks located at each …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Super User The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
UV-C Light Touted As Quick Disinfecter For Touchscreens, Payment Terminals, But Is It A Feasible Alternative To Hand Gel? January 4, 2022 by Super User I’ve not yet seen much at all in the way of digital signage and commercial AV-related product announcements coming out of the (in normal times) giant CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas, but was a little curious about a Florida company called LumixUV that has what it calls “groundbreaking robotic disinfection technology” that would …
LG Starts Showing TV That Runs On Batteries, Pivots To Portrait, And Has Wheels December 16, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip to Display Daily for noticing this … LG In South Korea has started showing a new TV that can swivel from landscape to portrait mode, be easily moved around a house, and run on batteries for as long as three hours. The LG 27ART10 TV, which also goes by the much more marketing-friendly …
Qwick Media Launches Interactive Hardware-Software Toolset Focused On Local Tourism November 22, 2021 by Super User The greater Vancouver interactive hardware-software shop Qwick Media has developed a digital toolset focused on the destination tourism sector – a simple cloud and browser-driven platform intended for customers like golf and ski resorts to organize and market the various properties, amenities and services available in the immediate area. The company has been doing self-service …
