Yodeck Now Supporting NEC’s Raspberry Pi-based Smart Displays September 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes It has been a few years since NEC Display bucked the big trend toward hard-wired System on Chip displays by instead focusing on smart displays that could be upgraded just by opening a trap door and swapping out the smarts. There has not been a mad rush to go down NEC’s path, as the platform …
Reflect, BrightSign, NEC Partner On “Retail Resurgence” Tech, Financing Bundles August 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Reflect Systems, BrightSign, NEC Display Solutions and NEC Financial Services have partnered up on what they’re collectively calling a Retail Resurgence Program that bundles a set of solution-specific digital signage tech packages with easy, built-in financing options. The solutions are generally familiar – like kiosks with hand sanitizer dispensers – but the wrinkle on the …
LG Starts US Marketing On Its NFC-driven, Cable-Free LED Display Series July 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has started making some noise on this side of the Pacific about a new kind of direct-view LED video wall that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. I wrote about the tech five weeks ago, when it was touted in South Korea. This new signage product – …
There’s Nothing Easy About Cutting The Cord And Running Screens, All Day, Off Batteries July 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Chester Niziol, Design Science Running a big digital display on nothing but batteries, for hours, is no mean feat. Trust me on this, as I’ve spent 13 years with my team figuring it out. It’s always been a simple ask – an LCD screen that could be placed in a walkway or entrance, …
iGotcha Media Launches COVID-Focused Health And Wellness Technology System July 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The folks at Montreal solutions provider iGotcha Media have launched what they’ve dubbed a Health and Wellness System – effectively a selection of technologies aimed at helping brands and retailers manage their way through a landscape and rules that keep changing. This system, says the company in PR, creates a safe and secure retail environment …
Computex Delayed To 2021, Despite Taiwan Having Fully Contained COVID-19 June 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes In a prime example of the phrase “abundance of caution,” the organizers of the computing trade show Computex have cancelled the 2020 show, having already postponed it from this month to fall. The show is in Taipei each year, and is being cancelled to remove any risk of transmission. This is in a city and …
Shanghai Company Develops Short Throw Projector Kit, CMS Software, For Elevators April 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes My start in digital signage came when I left the newspaper business (wisely) 21 years ago and joined a company that was putting in small LCD screens on the door header or in the corner of office tower elevators. I did not think, a generation later, that LCD tech, computing and WiFi would have progressed …
Finally, A Rolling, Robotic Digital Poster On Wheels! April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes In just about every speaking gig I do, I work in the importance of strategy, and encourage both sellers and buyers to ask a big, simple question: Why? I don’t have a solid answer to why for this loopy thing: a four-screen robotic ad machine that in theory would slowly roll along the concourses of …
Two Touchless Solutions For Times When Interactive Is A Little Scary April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what …
Hypersign Launches New All-In Digital Signage As A Service, Or DSaas April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes Spartanburg, SC’s Hypersign has read its market and put together a business bundle it calls DSaas, which is short for Digital Signage as a service. The bundled program, which seems to be coming up more and more in digital signage (see Planar from Wednesday for another variation on this), allows end-users to put everything they …
