OUTFRONT Deploys 15 Two-Screen Ad Totems In Partnership With Louisville December 4, 2024 by Super User Digital street furniture gets put on city streets by media companies for the sole purpose, understandably, of hopefully recovering their high capital costs and then making money from ads running on the high-bright display totems. An announcement of a new network on the downtown sidewalks of Louisville, KY reflect how media companies these days have …
Transit Info Start-up Pairs Analog Route Signs With E-Paper Real-Time Update Inserts November 21, 2024 by Super User While Taiwan’s E Ink is making a big push into color e-paper and more sophisticated products for digital signage and DOOH applications, a much smaller Canadian competitors is taking the opposite path – developing an oversized but super-simple monochrome e-paper sign for transit applications. Ynvisible Interactive has announced what it calls a “collaboration” with Waypoint …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Super User Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
Have A Look At This Crazily-Big Control Room LED Wall In China November 13, 2024 by Super User It has been my experience that when something is touted as the largest, there’s almost always something else, somewhere, that is even larger. Whatever the case, this newly switched-on control room screen in China would certainly be, at minimum, among the largest indoor LED video walls deployed to date. It is roughly 1,200 square meters …
Taco Bell Has Processed 2M+ Drive-Thru Orders Using AI; Now In Use at 300+ US Stores November 7, 2024 by Super User Hat tip to kiosk expert Craig Keefner for pointing to this … Anyone wondering if voice ordering in QSR drive-thrus would mature and would get adopted by consumers can reference what Taco Bell is doing in the U.S. The CFO of Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, said on a Q3 …
E Ink, Hanshow Launch 13.3-Inch Full Color E-Paper Display For Retail October 18, 2024 by Super User This is what’s at least described as the first commercial application of a full-color electronic paper display in a retail environment – at an Aeon China store in Changsha. I put the “described” qualifier in there because there often ends up being another example, done somewhere else. Whatever the case, it is certainly indicative of …
DIGICHIEF Debuts New API-Driven Content Feeds For Local Health Conditions October 18, 2024 by Super User Long-time subscription content provider DIGICHIEF has developed an interesting data partnership with a company that does what it calls healthcare intelligence to provide screen network operators with geo-targeted health information, like the prevalence of colds and flu in an area. It’s a collaboration between Lexington, KY-based DIGICHIEF, using APIs from IQVIA, which operates out of …
Optisigns Debuts Its Own $300 Pro Media Player, Paired With Its CMS Software October 18, 2024 by Super User Houston-based OptiSigns has developed and launched a third media player to a hardware line-up that pairs with its digital signage CMS platform – a $300 Pro version that slots in between an entry-level Android HDMI stick and a high-end 8K-ready unit. The OptiSigns Pro Player is a ruggedized unit, passively-cooled little box that can do …
Wi-Charge Adds A 9-Inch Shelf-Edge Display To Its Battery And Cord-Free Product Line October 17, 2024 by Super User The Israeli tech firm Wi-Charge has added a 9-inch flat panel display to its product line – larger than earlier models but like those, powered over the air without using cables or batteries. Nine inches may seem small to digital signage people who now regard 55-inch flat panels as being small-ish, but these are intended …
LG Starts Marketing EV Charging Stations With Integrated, Multi-Purpose Touch Screens October 10, 2024 by Super User LG’s energy solutions business is huge, particularly with respect to EV batteries, so it is logical that the company is pushing deeper into EV charging solutions with a new fast charging station that bakes in a touchscreen display. LG Business Solutions USA has announced it has started taking orders for its first Level 3 DC …
