Could Drapes And Curtains Be Future Display Canvases? Maybe … March 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes A pile of different institutions – including universities, institutes and the labs of private companies – have people looking into ways to blend LED light emitters with fabric to create news kinds of displays based around smart textiles. The core of it is woven fabric that incorporates electronic devices – LEDs but also things like …
AVIXA Suspends Russian Member Companies, Blocks Exhibiting At ISE, InfoComm March 30, 2022 by Dave Haynes The trade association AVIXA has suspended the memberships of Russian companies and individuals, and banned Russian companies from exhibiting at its biggest trade shows, Integrated Systems Europe (co-owned wth CEDIA) and InfoComm. The organization has also withdrawn support for an event called ISRussia. The statement came out a few days ago, but I managed to …
127 Linear Feet Of Samsung’s The Wall Fill Thai Real Estate Sales Center March 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes This would have to be among the largest deployments to date of Samsung’s The Wall – the display giant’s MicroLED-ish premium LED video wall product – now lit up at a Thai property development pavilion. It fills all four walls of a presentation center for a huge, eco-themed property development going up in Bangkok called …
Navori Labs Does “Near-Complete” Rework Of UX For Its Digital Signage CMS Platform March 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Swiss CMS software firm Navori Labs has revealed details of a major update of its long-running platform, including a “near-complete” reworking of the user experience and an on-premise “lite” version aimed at the entry-level, modest needs market. The new QL 2.7 release also has expanded player functionality, rewritten players for proprietary smart displays and …
US Grocer Startup Includes Touchless Self-Checkout In Frictionless Experience Mix March 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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., …
