Global Chip Shortage Affecting Availability, Forcing Prices Up, For Digital Signage Hardware May 12, 2021 by Super User Just as business has started picking back up for suppliers and solutions providers active in digital signage and pro AV, there is a new global problem to throw off business prospects – more demand for computer chips than supply. We’re collectively in the midst of a worldwide shortage of semiconductors that see supplies limited, shipments …
LG Touts New Tech That Allows Sports Bar Patrons To Hear Their Game Commentary May 12, 2021 by Super User LG has started marketing tech that allows people in busy, noisy places like sports bars to whip out their smartphones and ear buds and listen to things like the live game commentary from a specific display screen, without that audio blasting over the in-house sound system. The concept is not new, but when I have …
Ford Patents Method To Scan DOOH Billboards, Push Versions Of Ads To Dashboard Screens May 12, 2021 by Super User Auto manufacturer Ford has patented a method and apparatus for using AI-driven pattern detection to read digital billboards on highways, using the on-board sensors in new vehicles that are there for safety purposes. The concept has vehicles that are scanning the roadway for things like speed limit and other traffic control signs, as well as …
Uniquest Acquires Sagely In Continued Build-out Of Senior Living Vertical May 11, 2021 by Super User Nashville-based solutions provider Uniguest has acquired a Hawaiian software company, Sagely, to build out its growing vertical focus on senior living communities. Sagely will merge into Touchtown, which is Uniguest’s senior living brand via the earlier acquisition of Touchtown. That company works with more than 1,300 senior living communities – running content that reduces social …
Shoppers Pass Through 20-Meter LED Tunnel To Get Into Flashy New Sydney Food Hall May 11, 2021 by Super User Photo: Kimberley Low In another sign that direct view LED is mainstreaming as a display option, here is a digital tunnel for a travelator – one of those flat escalator thingies that allows carts and roller bags – that leads up from a parkade into a high-end supermarket that’s opened up in Sydney, Australia. The independent …
DOOH Boards Around Globe Used As Digital Gallery For New David Hockney Artwork May 10, 2021 by Super User The work of British artist David Hockney is being celebrated this month on digital OOH media displays in the big tourist zones of major global cities. Hockney’s new piece – Remember you cannot look at the sun or death for very long – was created on his iPad while he was stuck like everyone else in quarantine …
Is Your Digital Signage Business Being Impacted By Global Semiconductor Shortages? May 7, 2021 by Super User I have been hearing, for weeks now, about a shortage of semiconductor microchips – the smarts inside everything from cars to countertop home appliances. And pro AV technologies. There is more demand than supply at the moment, and that may affect the availability of new product. Observers say the situation, globally, owes to several COVID-driven …
VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens May 7, 2021 by Super User The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty limited to date, there are still companies getting into the concept and adding their own ideas on a special sauce, like AI. The latest is a tie-up between the Philly computer …
New Research Suggests Touchscreens Leading Public Display Sector Recovery May 7, 2021 by Super User As digital signage and retail tech sellers continue to tout touchless solutions – using voice, gesture, hover and QR-to-smartphone set-ups – the main buyers out there appear to be opting for screens that get touched. New research from OMDIA says the Interactive Touch (IFP/Touch) segment actually leads the recovery being seen in the total Public …
Starbucks Takes Digital End-Cap Concept Into The Aisles At ASDA Supermarket In UK May 6, 2021 by Super User My Linkedin feed had a post up from the UK about a digital merchandising display for Starbucks in the aisles of an ASDA supermarket. The display is like a digital end-cap, except it was in-aisle and uses tactics like fins and angled displays to try to grab shopper attention. I note this for a few …
