Italian Outdoor Brand Includes Small LED Screen On Packaging For New Fragrances October 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Tim Allan for making me aware of this post in Beauty Packaging, which is not exactly a regular read for me. The Italian Skiwear brand Moncler has resorted to the gimmick of putting what amounts to a low-tech digital sign on the bottles of its new fragrances for men and women. The woody, …
Canonical Launches Ubuntu Frame To Ease Development Work For Digital Signage, Kiosks October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The company behind the widely-used version of Linux – called Ubuntu – has released a new product aimed at developers who do digital signage and interactive appliucations. Canonical’s newly announced Ubuntu Frame is described as “a solution that allows developers to easily build and deploy graphical applications for interactive kiosks, digital signage solutions, or any …
More Evidence COVID Era Has Blown Up Demand For Self-Service Screens, This Time Out Of Canada October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Just about every piece of market research I come across that touches on digital signage is built around data developed in the US market, or sometimes from the EU. I never see research focused just on the Canadian market, but I just stumbled on some focused on self-service displays, aka kiosks. The survey suggests a …
SigmaSense Completes $24M Raise To Broaden Reach Of Its Touch Technologies October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Austin, TX-based touch technology firm SigmaSense has announced the closing of a $24 million Series B fundraising round the company says will be used to expand its reach in the touch, digital signage and HMI (Human Machine Interface) markets. The company does very slick sensing technology that goes well beyond the boink-boink basics of touchscreens …
MicroLED Manufacturing Could Mark Shift Away From Chinese LED Dominance: Futuresource October 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK research firm Futuresource Consulting – one of a small handful of companies doing legit research in the display industry – has pushed out a new market report looking at the fast-emerging microLED display market. The report suggests more than 60 companies will invest around $10 billion between them over the next few years, …
Shanghai Museum Uses Giant LED Wall To Add To City’s Iconic Riverfront Skyline October 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new museum that’s opened along Shanghai’s famed riverfront features a huge LED video wall that is easily seen by looking across Huangpu River from the Bund at the ultra-modern skyline. In a press release I would politely call confusing as hell, Chinese LED manufacturer LianTronics relates the story behind “Shanghai’s Largest Outdoor Small-pitch LED …
The Uncertain Return Of Tech Trade Shows October 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Meghan Thompson, STRATACACHE As we march toward 2022 with a still uncertain live event outlook, B2B leaders are looking closely at the business value of these high-cost, face-to-face events and asking the question: “Will the trade show of the past, remain just there … in the past?” You’ll perhaps recall walking the floor …
Digital Display Usage In Drive-Thru Spiked In COVID Era, But Research Suggests Industry Far From Built Out: Study October 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes QSR Magazine covers guess what and does an annual, very thorough study of what’s happening with the drive-thru side of that business. It is required reading for anyone selling display hardware or software into that space, and provides some intriguing insights about how much things changed when COVID-19 turned up. Under a headline suggesting the …
SageNet Merges Capabilities From Convergent Acquisition Into Full Meal Deal Digital Signage Solution October 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes Tulsa-based managed network services provider SageNet has revealed its intentions and use of the intellectual property and insights it got from acquiring Atlanta-based Convergent earlier in the year – launching a suite of integrated SageVIEW Digital Signage solutions. The solutions combine Convergent’s content creation and integration capabilities and Digital Signage as a Service (DSaaS) approach …
Elo Releases 4th-Gen, Android 10-Driven Options For Interactive Screens October 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes With self-service ordering getting mainstreamed by the pandemic – use a machine instead of riskier person to person contact – all-in-one kiosk displays are presumably seeing a lot of demand across numerous industry verticals beyond the obvious one of QSR and fast-casual. Silicon Valley-based Elo has just announced its newest interactive screen options – which …
