Planar Takes Its Displays On Road This Fall For MicroPalooza Tour October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a nod to the travel-hesitant times, Planar is taking its display pots and pans on the road this fall – on what it calls the MicroPalooza 2021 Tour. The Oregon-based display manufacturer is staging a six-city US product tour in November through mid-December that will see its LCD and LED product showroom hauled to …
LG’s Transparent OLEDs Being Used, Somewhat Curiously, In Seoul Parking Garage Windows September 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a use-case that has probably never crossed the minds of most digital signage people, the operators of an underground parking lot in Seoul are using transparent OLEDs in the windows of the entryways. LG Display in South Korea announced it is supplying 55-inch OLEDs for interior use by the parking lot of Kakao T …
Display Week: BenQ Touts Back To Back Transparent OLEDs; Use-Case Kinda Fuzzy May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Society For Information Display’s Display Week is now live – virtual like most things, still. It is a display nerd fest that is aimed much more at engineers than end-users, and it is a serious challenge for people like me who never even mused about a career in advanced polymers or electrical engineering. I …
NYC Property Firm Equips Reception Area With Transparent OLED Showcase March 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use for transparent OLED displays – the reception area for a commercial property company based in New York. There are three see-through OLEDs tiled together, fronting some sort of display case with, I think, engineered structural lumber and maybe some building models. The content includes beauty shots of properties as well …
Patent Office Shoots Down LG’s Plans To Trademark QNED Term For Its New Premium Displays January 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Bob Raikes, who does the paywalled but valuable What Bob Saw newsletter through Display Daily … The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied an application by LG Electronics to register the the term QNED as a trademark. The patent office said that QNED is an acronym for Quantum Nano-emitting Diode, so it …
LG, ASSA ABLOY Partner On OLED Displays Embedded In Sliding Automated Doors December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG is working with a Swedish access control company to commercialize automated entry doors that have transparent OLED displays embedded in the sliding glass doors. The new product uses LG’s 55-inch transparent OLED signage display and runs LG’s own CMS SuperSign software, paired with the technologies that drive manufacturer ASSA ABLOY’s Entrance Systems. “In addition to …
Panasonic Adds Transparent OLED To Product Line November 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Panasonic has announced plans to start marketing a 55-inch transparent OLED display, first in Asia/Australia/NZ and then globally, beginning next month. The company has been showing prototypes at trade shows for a few years (seems to me I have seen them at Panasonic’s ISE booth in the past) but this marks commercialization of the display. …
Samsung Developing Super Pixel Density OLED Displays October 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is not coming to a digital signage job anytime soon, but Samsung is deep into R&D on a new kind of OLED display that has as many as 10,000 light pixels per inch. That’s JUST a bit tighter in pixel density than a typical OLED commercial display or TV, which will typically have a …
Climate Change Exhibit Creates Video Tunnel With 112 OLEDs October 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video tunnel using open-frame OLED displays, some curved, for a climate change awareness exhibit called The Glacier – part of an exhibition at Klima Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. Says Sovanta, a German software company involved in the project: The walk-in exhibit is an extraordinary experience: With its help, visitors experience a leap …
Innolux Demos Rollable 55-Inch MiniLED Display That Unfurls From Housing August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit: LED Inside The Taiwan-based display manufacturer Innolux has started showing demos of a new kind of rollable 55-inch screen that uses direct view miniLED and is touted as a better, less expensive version of LG’s rollable OLEDs. The company, part of the huge Foxconn group of tech companies, did a product premiere this …
