Start-up Monetizes Sidewalk Air Pollution Scrubber Towers For Cityscapes With OOH Ad Faces June 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen out of home media companies attach advertising faces to all kinds of things out in public – like transit shelters, pylons and sidewalk directories – but now a UK start-up has a solution on streets that pairs an ad face with an sidewalk air scrubber. The environmental media start-up Pluvo has partnered with KineticX, …
Android Set-Top Box Maker Minix Now Has Player Based On Intel NUC Design June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you spend your days sourcing gear for media players, maybe this is not news to you. But I did not know that the Hong Kong manufacturer that seems to make the most trusted Android set-top box for digital signage applications also has a box based on Intel’s NUC design. Minix has a Next Unit …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a …
Gartner Forecasts Chip Shortages Will Stretch Well Into 2022 May 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The research and analysis firm Gartner is forecasting that the worldwide semiconductor shortage that is hitting most tech industries, including digital signage, will persist throughout 2021 and not return to more normal levels until Q2 2022. “The semiconductor shortage will severely disrupt the supply chain and will constrain the production of many electronic equipment types …
BrightSign Adds Cellular Connectivity To Product Line-up May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Dedicated media player maker BrightSign has taken the interesting step of launching a USB cellular modem with carriers and 4G data plans, to sell alongside its little purple boxes. The idea behind BrightSign Mobile is providing a means to connect digital signage networks in venues where on-premise broadband is just flat unavailable, for various reasons, including …
LG Touts New Tech That Allows Sports Bar Patrons To Hear Their Game Commentary May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes LG has started marketing tech that allows people in busy, noisy places like sports bars to whip out their smartphones and ear buds and listen to things like the live game commentary from a specific display screen, without that audio blasting over the in-house sound system. The concept is not new, but when I have …
Is Your Digital Signage Business Being Impacted By Global Semiconductor Shortages? May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have been hearing, for weeks now, about a shortage of semiconductor microchips – the smarts inside everything from cars to countertop home appliances. And pro AV technologies. There is more demand than supply at the moment, and that may affect the availability of new product. Observers say the situation, globally, owes to several COVID-driven …
Community Builder Using Digital Signage Players Inside Model Homes May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have heard of many cases in which builders and property developers have used digital signage in their presentation centers – dedicated buildings or areas within existing or new builds – that show the features and offers of dwellings and areas. Here’s a case where a builder is putting digital signage into each model home, …
UK’s B-Tech Makes Strategic Hire To Broaden AV Mounts In North America May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes A firm that has been selling pro AV mounting hardware from a base in the U.K. has seen the sale of Premier Mounts as an opportunity to amplify expansion efforts into the U.S. and Canada, even hiring a 25-year Premier vet to run U.S. sales. B-Tech AV Mounts has almost 50 years of experience in …
