US Grocer Startup Includes Touchless Self-Checkout In Frictionless Experience Mix March 25, 2022 by Super User A U.S. grocery start-up that’s pairing healthy foods with frictionless shopping is including touchless self-checkout screens as part of its technology mix. Called Nourish + Bloom Market, the Georgia-based company has plans to include self-checkout terminals that use hand-tracking hardware and related software from Ultraleap as part of the shopping experience. The store is billed …
Signagelive, meldCX Partner On Retail Audience Measurement Solution March 24, 2022 by Super User The Aussie AI and IoT software and solutions firm meldCX has gone into a new partnership with UK digital signage firm Signagelive to market and deliver retail-centric screen solutions that are informed and driven by audience measurement data. The companies liken what they can collectively measure and use to the kinds of analytics Youtube generates, …
E Ink’s Newest Color Displays Boost Color And Contrast; Intended As Print Poster Replacements March 24, 2022 by Super User E Ink continues to evolve the capabilities of its color e-paper – with a new version of its larger format displays substantially boosting both its color and contrast metrics. The latest generation of the Taiwan company’s Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) platform, called E Ink Gallery Plus, has a color gamut “ideally reaching” 60,000, and a …
Watch: UK Firm Using LED In Building Glass For Event Marketing March 23, 2022 by Super User This is an effective demo video showing what LED embedded glass looks like and does – from a UK company called Versatile Venues. The tech is from a Korean company that specializes in LEDs in glass – G-Smatt. It has a website that loads like it is 1996, but eventually text and images pop up …
Impairing Astronomers’ Work Cited As Argument Against Digital Billboards In Silicon Valley March 23, 2022 by Super User The bright lights of digital billboards have always generated some public opposition, particularly if a big roadside display’s visuals spill at night into the living and sleeping spaces of nearby residences. Now there’s a new argument against such displays – the light pollution problem they might create for astronomical studies. A pair of students in …
CRI Paid $16M Cash Plus 2.3M Shares For Reflect Acquisition March 23, 2022 by Super User There have been numerous acquisitions and mergers in the past few years involving companies active in digital signage, and in almost every case, I have ended up writing something like “terms of the deal were not disclosed.” But publicly traded companies are required to lay out deal terms in filings, at least in the U.S., …
Commercial Flat Panel Display Volume up 20.1% Year-On-Year, Projection Flat: Futuresource March 22, 2022 by Super User Year-on-year volume global sales for commercial flat panel displays jumped 20.1% in 2021, according to new data from the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting, but commercial projector growth grew by just 0.2%. Given these numbers are tied to an exceptionally weird period of lockdowns, deferred projects and supply chain shortages, they may not be indicative …
Axiomtek’s New Palm-Sized PC With AI Chip Seems Well-Suited For Audience Measurement Jobs March 22, 2022 by Super User The Taiwan PC maker Axiomtek has several ruggedized products aimed at markets and use-cases that include digital signage, but a new one caught my eye because of its potential use for computer vision/audience measurement solutions used by retail and DOOH networks. The company has launched a “palm-sized” PC done in partnership with the artificial intelligence …
GSTV Extends The Shopper Influence Of Its Screens Beyond Gas Station Lots March 21, 2022 by Super User The digital OOH media network built around getting people pumping gas to go inside to buy consumer goods in the station’s c-store has expanded the media pitch to say it can also influence at purchases at nearby, unrelated stores. The long-running network GSTV – short for Gas Station TV – has screens integrated with the …
E-Paper Display Totem Firm Soofa Says US Installed Base Tripled In 2021 March 21, 2022 by Super User Cambridge, MA-based Soofa seems to getting some traction with its distinct and somewhat more genuine take on smart city digital displays – with 41 cities across 15 U.S. states now using the solar-powered, large format e-paper totems. The company says its U.S. footprint tripled in 2021. “We’ve had rapid growth over the past year as …
