Germany’s Cyreen Puts Intelligence In Shopping Carts To Track In-Store Screen And Marketing Impacts March 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Our German language content partners invidis had a post up recently about a Frankfurt start-up called Cyreen, which consumer behavior analytics for retail environments, and is touting the sales impacts of retail media screens. Cyreen’s retail media technology – Connecting Ad-Impressions with a Purchase (CAP) – has the ability to tie in-store messaging impressions down …
Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Used To Virtually Greet, Guide Visitors At Amsterdam Office Complex March 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting real world application of those shower stall-like, hologram-ish transparent LCD units – making a life-sized and live host available to visitors at a building, even though the host is located in another part of town. The Dutch start-up Holoconnects worked with D&B The Facility Group to set up what’s called a holobox …
LG Launches Training Academy Aimed At Boosting Awareness, Expertise For Direct View LED March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the reasons many LED manufacturers market fixed-size all-in-one LED displays is that their partner ecosystems include a lot of companies and people who don’t fully have their heads around how these kinds of display projects come together. The challenge with that approach is that bundled solutions can limit what might get pitched and …
Slovak Bus Line Kits Out New Terminal With 80+ Passenger Update Screens March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes Several new or updated airport terminals have come online in the past year kitted out with displays that help inform and guide passengers, and it’s the sort of thing that can also serve other mass transport hubs well – like this new bus terminal in Slovakia. The new bus station in the Nivy shopping center …
Renovated Hugo Boss Store Adds Split Flap Display To Shopper Experience On London’s Regent Street March 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an example of an electro-mechanical display being used in high-end retail for interesting and different messaging, in this case for a newly renovated HUGO BOSS store on Regent Street in London. It is supplied by Vestaboard, a Silicon Valley start-up that specializes in split flap displays that share the same core design and operating …
London’s Transport Authority Expanding LED-based Countdown Signs; Testing Interactive And E-Paper Signs March 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes The integrated mass transport authority for the UK’s capital city area – Transport For London (TfL) – is adding 300 more of its simple LED countdown displays to routes this year, and also started trials of e-paper displays on bus stop poles and interactive full color displays inside bus shelters on one route. Beginning this …
Now There’s An Acronym For Something That Isn’t Really A Thing: FP3D Billboards March 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes Now media companies are getting into the flawed habit of calling their advertising displays something they’re not. Abu Dhabi-based BackLite Media sent me PR about its winning the concession to deploy new digital billboards at a flashy new waterfront destination in the city state – trumpeting how the “new range includes a curved screen, which …
MIT-Guided Researchers Stacking MicroLEDs To Pack More Pixels Into Small Displays March 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes MicroLED and even miniLED area already pretty much at a level of development maturity that viewers can be inches from a screen and not really see any gaps between pixels, but there is an ongoing push to get the density of pixels even tighter – albeit for small displays versus giant video walls. Display Daily …
Small Colorado Springs Integrator Says It Has Deal To Upgrade Some 10,000 US Car Dealerships March 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes The larger the client, the smaller the likelihood that a vendor can say much of anything about what it is doing for that client. A good example of that is a Colorado Springs IT company – called Tekumo – that has pushed out a press release saying it has been contracted to do a big …
Have A Look At This Digital Sign With A Wood Veneer Face March 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is apparently Future LG Morning around here – with a second post about conceptual products from the Korean electronics giant. The company has a small stand at an Airport Planning, Design, and Construction Symposium in LA this week, and along with more conventional displays it says would fit in airport environments, LG and its …