UV-C Light Touted As Quick Disinfecter For Touchscreens, Payment Terminals, But Is It A Feasible Alternative To Hand Gel? January 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Ultraleap Raises $82M From Investors To Drive R&D, Sales For Touchless Interactive Tech November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Ultraleap, the UK/US tech firm that specializes in touchless interactive interfaces, has announced a big $82 million Series D investment round that will help drive R&D efforts and a push into target vertical markets. The company, which came out of the merger of Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, specializes in mid-air hand tracking and haptic feedback …
This Is National World Needs More Touch Day (And National Bundt Pan Day) November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a clever, cheeky marketing move, the folks at TSItouch have registered with a service that marks today at The World Needs More Touch Day – which also happens to be the touch overlay company’s tag line. Says the listing on the National Day Archives listings site: World Needs More Touch Day serves to bring …
AV Vendor Draper Nearing Funds Goal For Wounded US Military Vet October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to the folks at the AV mounts and gear firm Draper, which is nearing a fundraising goal that would provide a mobility chair to a catastrophically wounded U.S. military veteran. Sue Downes, a mother of two from Tazewell, TN, sustained serious injuries while serving as a Corporal with a military police unit in …
Kramer, Zignage Partner On Data-Triggered Emergency Alerts For Education, Workplace AV Control Systems October 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Pro AV gear supplier Kramer Electronics has done a partnership with the digital signage management software firm Zignage that enables a range of emergency notifications to be integrated with Kramer’s VIA and Control platforms for the education and workplace markets. This solution, says PR, will help manage hybrid campuses and workplaces and to escalate alerts …
High School Student Hacks Entire School District’s Screens, Then Rickrolls Viewers October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a cautionary tale for anyone running an enterprise-level digital signage network: an Illinois high school student managed to take over the digital signage and other IPTV-connected screens across a full school district back in April. But instead of running naughty videos, he rickrolled them. A post on WhiteHood Hacker details: On April 30th, 2021, …
Private Investment Firm Buys Majority Stake In BrightSign October 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes The PR kinda low-balls the story here, but BrightSign has new owners. The announcement says the private investment firm Graham Partners “has made a significant investment” in the digital signage hardware firm BrightSign, but the headline on the release says Silicon Valley-based BrightSign has ‘accepted’ majority investment. “The investment,” the announcement suggests, “is expected to …
Canonical Launches Ubuntu Frame To Ease Development Work For Digital Signage, Kiosks October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The company behind the widely-used version of Linux – called Ubuntu – has released a new product aimed at developers who do digital signage and interactive appliucations. Canonical’s newly announced Ubuntu Frame is described as “a solution that allows developers to easily build and deploy graphical applications for interactive kiosks, digital signage solutions, or any …
