Finn Telecoms Retailer Greets Customers With OLED Display Canopy November 10, 2021 by Super User Via Invidis The Finnish telecommunications group Elisa has a store in Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla, quite close to its headquarters building. The shop is interesting, reports my friends at the German language publisher invidis, because it is using LG’s wallpaper-thin, flexible OLED displays as a canopy above shoppers as they walk in. Next to an …
Digital Display Kiosks Doubles Up As Storage Lockers For First Responder Emergency Needs November 9, 2021 by Super User Here’s a very different take on adding functionality to outdoor digital display kiosks that mostly tend to exist as advertising faces – a locker on the side of the display that stores critical items used by first responders when something bad goes down. The LA-area manufacturer Olea has worked with a New Jersey company – …
To No One’s Surprise, Last Month’s InfoComm Saw Attendee Numbers Down By 70%-85% November 8, 2021 by Super User AVIXA has released the numbers for its 2021 InfoComm trade show, run in Florida couple of weeks ago. As anyone paying attention expected, the numbers were way down. Verified attendance was 7,335, a little more than half of the 14,017 who registered to attend. The AVIXA press release does not say if the verified total …
Spectrio Launches White-Label, Turnkey Digital Signage Reseller Partners Program November 8, 2021 by Super User Part of my on-boarding with Spectrio – when Sixteen:Nine was acquired by the fast-growing and fast-acquiring software firm – involved me asking how the company sold its many and varied services and software options. I got the rundown, including an indication of how Spectrio was building up a partner channel. Now Spectrio has announced a …
LED On Foil Reduces Weight Of Billboard-Sized Building Screen To Just 110 Pounds November 5, 2021 by Super User One of the challenges faced by media companies or building owners who want to put up an LED digital billboard on the top or side of a commercial building is sorting out the engineering implication of the additional weight, and how the screen is mounted. In some cases, there might be additional construction or reinforcement …
Saudi Entertainment Complex Emulates Times Square On What Was A Patch Of Sand Four Months Ago November 4, 2021 by Super User This is just nutty in terms of the scope, scale and speed at which it came together – a massive retail and entertainment complex that went from a big patch of sand in Riyadh to fully operational and ready for the Saudi public in just four months. The Riyadh City Boulevard development opened this week, …
Dallas Aquarium Uses Big LED Backdrop To Enhance New Rainforest Experience November 4, 2021 by Super User There is probably a fancy technical term that has “reality” in it that would apply to this interesting project in Dallas, but I dunno what that term is … extended reality, maybe? Suffice to say the project blends the real deal with supporting visuals done digitally. The Dallas World Aquarium (DWA), which takes up two …
Raydiant Adds 1,000+ Digital Menu Board Template Gallery To Third-Party App Marketplace November 4, 2021 by Super User It wasn’t all that long ago that digital signage nerds would be happy to go into a QSR and see the operation had opted in on using digital menu boards, but we’re now at a point that it’s more of a surprise when digital menus are not being used. Lowered hardware costs, greatly-raised reliability and …
Uniguest’s M&A Flurry Continuing; Adds Volara’s Interactive Voice Platform To Solution Set November 3, 2021 by Super User Nashville-based Uniguest is continuing its acquisitive ways – with the “digital engagement technology” firm announcing of Volara, an NYC firm specializing in voice-based engagement software. Already managing more than 20,000 voice assistant solutions at over 400 locations, says the announcement, Volara now launches Uniguest’s voice technology division, positioning the company to bring voice-based contactless engagement …
Samsung’s New The Wall Promo Video Does Killer Job Explaining Tech With Visuals November 2, 2021 by Super User Manufacturers who send me written PR material that goes on and on, and on, about the technical specs of their display product too often seem to forget that what they sell is a visual product. They want to tell me in written material, instead of show me in pix or, better, in video! So it …
