6,000 Thermal Sensor Kiosks Running In, Psssst, Home Depots October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A smirking Hat Tip to Middletown, CT-based Reality Interactive for issuing a second press release about the same thing, and showing how tech companies are constrained by their clients in what they can say about big projects. The company put out PR recently indicating its contactless body temperature check screen-thingie was seeing marketplace adoption. First …
New Touch Film Enables Smartphone-Level Touch On Big, Tiled LCD Video Walls October 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes The touch technology firm TSItouch has started marketing a new touch film that can be applied to commercial LCD displays, resulting in the sort of responsiveness available on handheld device screens, and spanning between multiple screens on video walls. The company, based in Pennsylvania, worked with the Portuguese firm DISPLAX on what is called PCAP …
Peerless-AV Adds Absen To DV LED Makes Supported By Its “Seamless” Mount System October 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The mounting hardware and specialty display firm Peerless-AV has added Absen to a long list of direct view LED companies it supports with what it calls its Seamless Connect series. The Chicago-area company’s dedicated Connect Series dvLED Mounting System now has versions specifically for Absen’s Acclaim Plus and Pro Series Direct View LED Displays. The …
Shuttle Marketing Stretch LCD With Built-In SoC And Computer Vision October 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Taiwanese PC maker Shuttle has started marketing what I THINK is the first digital signage display product for the company – one of those stretch LCDs with a smart System on Chip processor inside. The company is best known for its series of little cube PCs for desktops, but also has a wide range …
Ultraleap Debuts Free Software To Make Existing Touchscreen Devices TouchFree October 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The UK tech start-up Ultraleap – which markets technology that merges camera-based hand-tracking with haptic feedback – has released free software it says enables existing touchscreens to go touch-free. The qualifier in that is to make the TouchFree software work, operators will need to add on a $250 camera/sensor or a $90 controller gadget. The …
In An Age of Sub-$200 Digital Signage Players, Here’s One That Starts At $3,500 September 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes The digital signage market has been steadily dropping the size and shape of media playout PCs for more than a decade. So it is interesting, in the age of $45 Raspberry Pi boards, to see an industrial-grade PC that has a starting street price of $3,500. A Toronto-area manufacturer called Stealth has released a new, …
SigmaSense Closes $22M Series A Funding Round For Its Hyper-Sensitive Touchscreen Tech September 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Austin, TX-based touch technology firm SigmaSense has completed and announced a $22 million Series A funding round, saying the capital infusion will help make the company a major player in the field. The company’s semiconductor tech and software is mainly about high-fidelity touch accuracy, but in the midst of the pandemic, the press release …
Scala Adds New Proprietary Media Players From Its Scala China Factory September 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes Some of the reasons STRATACACHE has been building up a presence in China is growing evident outside that country, with subsidiary Scala announcing a series of proprietary digital signage media players coming out of its Scala China factory. “With our Scala China factory, we are able to be extremely cost effective for both standalone and …
KC’s Keywest Touts NanoShield Film It Says Self-Disinfects Touchscreens In <15 Mins September 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Kansas City-area digital signage solutions firm Keywest Technology has started marketing a copper-infused antimicrobial film – called NanoShield – its makers claim will self-disinfect something like a touchscreen in less than 15 minutes. NanoShield uses copper nanotechnology, Keywest says, to reduce viruses and bacteria by more than 99.99 percent on digital signage, surfaces and …
Costa Rica’s Idea Media Develops Own IOT-driven Health Safety Kiosk September 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes Back in May, 16:9 related the story of a Costa Rican digital signage solutions company that, like many, had been adjusting its business and offer to deal with the pandemic. I liked, at the time, that the company was not just taking something from China and reselling it. Four months later, I checked in …
