Skykit Partners With Verizon Reseller On LTE-Based Digital Signage Solution March 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Minneapolis digital signage solutions provider Skykit has partnered with the wireless connectivity integrator Source Inc. on a service built around LTE cellular broadband. Source is a big Verizon Business reseller and this solution plays to the idea of making signage workable in locations where terrestrial broadband is hard to find or, well, crappy. Under …
Premier Mounts Acquired By Industrial Manufacturer Gamber-Johnson February 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The AV mounting solutions firm Premier Mounts has been acquired by Gamber-Johnson, described as a leading supplier of rugged mounting systems for fleet vehicles, public safety vehicles, forklifts, semi-trucks, and other mobility applications. “We are looking forward to joining forces with Premier Mounts,” says Brian Wagner, President, and CEO of Gamber-Johnson. “Gamber is a market …
RP Visual Comes Up With Universal Mount For In-Wall Displays February 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes The LA-area AV mounting gear company rp Visual Solutions has done a lot of trade in recent years coming up with custom architectural structures for visual displays, producing brackets and other metalwork that allows video walls to have the location, shape and scale envisioned by architects and their clients. They do big stuff, but the …
MicroTouch Interactive Display Brand Back; TES America Revives After Buying From 3M February 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you were somebody who bought or specified 3M interactive touch products, the familiar MicroTouch line of touch monitors sold for many years by that Minnesota tech giant has been re-launched via a separate company, TES America. TES, in PR, says it has outfitted MicroTouch with an all-new look and is expanding the line of …
Startup View’s Smart, Switchable Glass To Turn DFW Airport Windows Into Digital Signs January 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes The expanded Terminal D at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will include smart architectural glass that reduces glare and heat, but also allows dynamic messaging on the switchable, network-controlled windows. The windows are expected to be and working by April, with the technology supplied by a Silicon Valley start-up called View. In View’s PR about …
UltraSense Shows Interactive Sensors That Can Hide In Merchandising Fixture Material January 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes It is taking forever, but at some point we will all go back to a new version of normal retailing and other routine, day-to-day activities. That will also mean a return of interesting in simple but effective things like interactive merchandising. A Silicon Valley startup, UltraSense Systems, is a CES 2021 virtual exhibitor this week, …
Israeli Tech Firms Team Up On Mini LCD Video Wall For Sports Interview Logo Backdrops December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Three small Israeli tech companies have teamed up on a solution aimed at enlivening the logo walls that seem to be showing up at every pre and post-game media discussion in professional and even high-level amateur sport. Backdrops covered in neatly arranged and repeated logos are particularly common in professional football (soccer for Americans), but …
Sharp NEC Launch New Display Series Supporting Slot-Loaded External PCs December 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The recently blended entity Sharp NEC Display Solutions has released a new series of digital signage displays that support external, slot-loaded computing modules. The new ME Series accept versions of Intel’s Smart Display Module Small or Large reference designs for mini-PCs that slide into a PCIe slot, and also the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. NEC …
The D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference Agenda For Dec. 8-9 Now Built Out November 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes The agenda has been built out for D=SIGN, the two-day online conference being organized by AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation for Dec. 8-9. It has a pile of my fellow DSF board members, as well as general members and other industry folks – all subject matter experts in one or numerous aspects of the …
That’s TSItouch Tech Getting Worked In Election Return Analyses November 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you are in the U.S. or Canada – or further afield – spending an inordinate amount of time watching TV analysts explain the nuances of election returns in rural counties, you are seeing a lot of touchscreens being worked to the point of smoking. I’ve been watching MSNBC and its touch screens are a …
