Hair Styling Tool Brand GHD Uses Lift-and-Learn Solution Powered By Bluefin, Nexmosphere Tech September 16, 2024 by Super User Retail-centric all-in-one display company Bluefin has an interesting case study online about helping a manufacturer get noticed in store, and thinking through the fine details to make the screens effective. Manufacturer GHD makes hair styling tools and competes in a many-many billions market for things that dry, curl or straighten hair, and the company decided …
Praevar, BrightSign Partner On All-In-One Outdoor Displays Aimed At Retail, SMB Markets September 9, 2024 by Super User Toronto-based specialty display manufacturer Praevar has started marketing what I think is the first large-format outdoor-rated display to have a BrightSign media player built into it, with the two companies aiming the solution at the small business market. Praevar has been making high-brightness transit shelter and totem displays for years for DOOH media companies, shopping …
ProAV M&A: Kramer Bolsters AV Over IP Chops Through ZeeVee Acquisition August 7, 2024 by Super User The Israeli AV solutions and infrastructure provider Kramer has boosted its capabilities in AV over IP through the acquisition of ZeeVee, a Boston-area manufacturer of video and signal distribution technology for the pro AV and IT markets. Buying ZeeVee gets Kramer advanced technologies and expertise in an area that seemingly has big growth potential – …
New Omaha Concert Venue Uses E-Paper Displays To Assign And Manage Dressing Rooms And Suites August 7, 2024 by Super User Using networked displays to help assign and manage meeting rooms in workplaces is now commonplace, but they’re also being used for applications that are kinda sorta similar, but also very different. Like assigning dressing rooms at a performing arts venue. The Slovenian e-paper solutions provider Visionect has an interesting post up about how it has kitted …
UK University Team Develops Touch Screens That Can Be Squishy When Pushed By A Finger July 29, 2024 by Super User Researchers at a UK university have come with what they suggest is a new kind of touchscreen technology that’s squishy and responds to the user’s finger pressure, becoming softer or stiffer. Computer scientists at the University of Bath say the technology, dubbed DeformIO, has at least the potential to change how people interact with digital …
Korbyt Integrates Its Workplace Experience Platform With Crestron’s AirMedia Systems July 23, 2024 by Super User Integrations with workplace collaboration platforms like Teams and Zoom are growing commonplace for digital signage solutions and platforms targeting business communications as a vertical, but I haven’t seen as much work done with the big companies that do pro AV controls in those environments. So it’s interesting to read of a partnership Dallas-based CMS Korbyt …
TelemetryTV Debits Own Digital Signage Operating System, Optimized Hardware Player July 17, 2024 by Super User Vancouver, BC-based TelemetryTV is the latest digital signage solutions firm to develop its own operating system and play-out hardware tuned to it, with the intent of maxing out reliability, simplifying management and reducing costs. The company now has an online store featuring what it calls the TelemetryOS Box. “Designed for 24/7 commercial use in sectors such …
OptConnect Debuts Teeny Smart USB Modem For Devices On Network Edges July 10, 2024 by Super User This seems smart and attractive, but I will state upfront I don’t pay much attention to connectivity options for digital signage and DOOH jobs, so I am absolutely not an expert. Utah-based OptConnect, which is in the managed wireless business and has been nibbling around digital signage as an opportune market because of scale, has debuted …
Nice Product, Baffling Name July 9, 2024 by Super User Perhaps it is a function of me being an age-certified old fart, but I think if you are going to call something a table, it should at least bear some resemblance to what we all know to be a table. Here we have what I think is a nice product with an utterly weird product …
UltraLeap Halving Workforce; Selling Off Hand-Tracking And Focusing On Haptics Interactive Tech July 2, 2024 by Super User The UK firm focused on enabling touchless, mid-air hand and gesture controls using ultrasound waves and tracking has confirmed it is halving its workforce and offloading one of its two main lines of business. Ultraleap, based in Bristol, told staff last week it was having to do staff reductions because of what was described as …
