Touchscreens, Other Surfaces Present Little Or No COVID-19 Transmission Risk: Research February 23, 2022 by Super User It’s been roughly two years since COVID-19 became a daily discussion and the industry started wondering what all this would mean to business and the use of interactive technologies that encouraged touch actions. In the early days of the novel-coronavirus pandemic, it was widely thought that the pathogen was spread by touching surfaces, prompting no …
Custom LCD Maker Bluefin Starts Marketing Open OS All-In-One Panels February 22, 2022 by Super User The Atlanta-area custom LCD manufacturer Bluefin International has been around the industry for several years marketing a variety of retail-centric screens that have BrightSign media play-out hardware built-in, but now the company has added a series with a dual CPU set-up that can run Android 10 or different flavors of Linux like Debian. Bluefin’s new …
Google Revisiting Digital Signage With “Flex” Chrome OS That Runs On PCs And Macs February 21, 2022 by Super User Google has kinda sorta a little got back into the digital signage and interactive display business – having announced an evolution of the Chrome operating system that can now run on new and existing Windows and Mac devices. Previously, using Chrome OS was limited to dedicated hardware like the Chromeboxes, all-in-one screens and even sticks …
With 78 Days Until ISE (We Hope), Time To Look At How Access Will Work February 21, 2022 by Super User I spent a couple of free hours this weekend shovelling my office – neat freak is not a description that ever gets attached to me – doing things like shredding no end of print-outs for airline and hotel/VRBO bookings that got shelved as this pandemic wore on. Now I find myself once again doing planes …
E Ink Gets Anti-Light Pollution Certification; Don’t Expect LED DisplayCos To Follow Suit February 16, 2022 by Super User With most outdoor LED display manufacturers making brightness a key selling attribute, there’s not much chance of any of them joining E Ink in being certified by an organization that is all about combatting light pollution. Taiwan-based E Ink – by most if not all measures the market leader in e-paper tech – has announced …
Houston’s New Smart City Display Network Generates Revenue By Selling Viewer Data February 15, 2022 by Super User Kiosk industry follower and consultant Craig Keefner has an interesting post up on one of his sites about how a smart city media company makes money from digital display smart totems it puts in for free in large cities. The post in Design Smart City looks into a deployment of 25 kiosks by IKE Smart …
Projection-Mapped Illuminarium In Atlanta Sweats Asset By Adding Immersive Bar To Experiences February 15, 2022 by Super User Temporary and permanent indoor projection-mapping experiences are starting to grown common in big cities – large, open spaces like old loading docks and storage rooms in which the walls and floors are painted in edge-blended motion and still graphics. The main business model for these spaces is as large-scale art spaces that people can walk …
DOOH-Focused AI Computer Vision Start-up Alfi Adds CMS Partner Amidst Legal Issues February 14, 2022 by Super User I’d put this in the category of rabbit-holes one can sometimes end up down when looking into something – in this case an AI computer vision startup serving DOOH companies that has found itself in a post-IPO class-action lawsuit. I was doing a never-heard-of-them look into a company called Alfi because a press release out …
Digital Displays Evolving From Trade Show Add-Ons To Main Components In Stands February 14, 2022 by Super User It was about four or five years ago when rental LED displays came up enough in visual quality and durability and down enough in price to make them feasible as backdrops, headers and feature walls in trade show exhibits. Back then, you’d see them here and there – and mostly as add-ons, save the biggest …
LG, Userful Partner On Integrated AV-Over-IP Digital Signage And Visual Display Solution February 10, 2022 by Super User LG and the Canadian software company Userful have announced a joint solution designed to make digital signage and other visual display applications both feasible and reliable over the local and wide area networks of enterprise-level corporate clients. The solution is described in PR, in language that mostly makes me go cross-eyed, as an “end-to-end, software-defined …
