Gable Launches Mall Kiosk With Twin Big Screens For Directory And Advertising June 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes The retail-centric solutions company Gable has deployed an interesting double display in an Ohio shopping mall that uses one screen for navigation and directory lookup, and a second for DOOH advertising. The company, based in the Baltimore area, says the display unit is the first of its kind, and I can’t say I’ve seen something …
The Greatest Success Of This Week’s ISE Is, Perhaps, That It Even Happened June 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis I must make it clear that ISE 2021 in Barcelona this week was anything but a normal trade fair. Not only because the protocol required regular COVID-19 tests and ID checks, but because ISE took place inside an exhibition hall. And yet, in many ways, the ISE’s pandemic issue somehow felt …
Screens Turned And Stacked For Workplace Messaging In Dutch Tech Center June 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes This a nice, albeit modest, digital signage job in the reception and collaboration area of Techniek Nederland, a Dutch business association of technical service providers, installation companies and the technical retail sector. The project was put in by Mansveld and the screens are updated and managed using Pads4, which is also Dutch. It caught eye …
Submissions Now Sought For Next Global Digital Signage Awards June 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Submissions are now being accepted for the 2022 edition of the global Digital Signage Awards. Previous awards categories are in place and three new COVID-centric categories have been added, HOPEFULLY as a one-time thing! Those are for sector-specific response, and creative and technical execution related to pandemic-focused signage efforts, Closing date for entries is September …
Planar Adds Super-Fine Pitch MicroLED To Video Wall Line-up June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Portland-based Planar, and by extension its Chinese parent company Leyard, has formally joined the growing list of display companies offering super-fine pitch, microLED-driven video wall displays. The company’s new DirectLight Ultra Series has pitches ranging from 0.6 to 1.2mm. I don’t know if these products meet the display nerd purity test of what’s technically microLED, versus …
ISE Barcelona Photo Gallery Already Up June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes The mini-ISE in Barcelona came and went in a blink, it seems, and while the two-day event ended there earlier today, the organizers already have a photo gallery up. You can see the images here … I did NOT have the time – stupid-busy, not good ‘cuz the weather finally improved here – to take …
Sharp/NEC Start Formally Marketing Smart Window Film For Privacy, Digital Signage June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes The conjoined Sharp/NEC display company has started formally marketing the projection on switchable glass solution that the old NEC started showing at trade shows about three years ago. The idea is that you have electrically controlled interior glass that can be clear when it needs to be, or switched to opaque – for privacy or …
Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Adds Queue Management Via Q-Better Partnership June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The metering of access into stores and appointment-based retailing that came up by necessity in the past 15 months will stick around, in some fashion, so digital signage solution providers will likely see more and more demand for queue management tools. Those can be built – which can be expensive and time-consuming, and probably hard. …
Concert Venue Uses Giant LED Mesh Canopy To Drive Immersive Experience In Kiev June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am not entirely sure what is going on here, but I think this is a concert venue in Kiev, Ukraine, and the record label behind the event is using a big LED mesh canopy to drive ambient visuals. This is what immersive experiences expert Dorothy Di Stefano has to say, via Linkedin: The team …
City Plaza Webcams Get Super-Sized As Real-Time Portal Views To Other Places June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The video and overall presentation comes across as though the backers have definitively cured cancer, but this community art project coming out of Lithuania is nonetheless kind of interesting. Called Portal, it is essentially a public webcam that connects people on the street with each other, even though they are cities and countries apart. The …
