New Bahrain Mall Features 8K Experiential LED Canopy Ceiling December 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a roughly 30 foot wide by 200 foot long LED canopy ceiling, doing 8K visuals, in the Mall of Dilmunia in Bahrain. It is an element of a digital out-of-home network in the mall, designed and integrated by Four Square Media, and using Navori’s CMS software. The screen network went in with the …
Visionect Adds 32-Inch E-Paper, Cord-Free Display For Workplaces December 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Larger-sized e-paper displays have been around the marketplace for a while now, but a combination of price and applicability for projects have seemed to limited their adoption I think one of the big challenges is working with what you have, and making the most of that, and few people seem to do that better than …
Samsung Launching MicroLED TV For Very Upmarket Consumers Early 2021 December 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Various tech blogs are reporting that Samsung is planning to launch a 110-inch microLED TV for the consumer market early in the new year. It’s not clear from reports whether the display will be a fixed-size version of The Wall, the company’s flagship product series for microLED, or something marketed as a different brand. It does …
Israeli Tech Firms Team Up On Mini LCD Video Wall For Sports Interview Logo Backdrops December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Three small Israeli tech companies have teamed up on a solution aimed at enlivening the logo walls that seem to be showing up at every pre and post-game media discussion in professional and even high-level amateur sport. Backdrops covered in neatly arranged and repeated logos are particularly common in professional football (soccer for Americans), but …
LG, ASSA ABLOY Partner On OLED Displays Embedded In Sliding Automated Doors December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG is working with a Swedish access control company to commercialize automated entry doors that have transparent OLED displays embedded in the sliding glass doors. The new product uses LG’s 55-inch transparent OLED signage display and runs LG’s own CMS SuperSign software, paired with the technologies that drive manufacturer ASSA ABLOY’s Entrance Systems. “In addition to …
Chicago’s FLEx Lighting Completes $9M Raise For What It Calls LCD 2.0 December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes A Chicago company that specializes in thin, flexible lighting arrays has completed a fundraising initiative that will help get it into the business of small, reflective displays for applications like retail digital signage. FLEx Lighting announced $9 million in funding, led by venture capital firm Anzu Partners, to grow and commercialize its new, tablet-sized reflective displays. …
Near-Transparent LED Mesh Creates Media Facade At Barclay’s Center December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is what is billed as a 4K resolution transparent LED media facade that was lit up recently at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY., home to an NBA team and venue for concerts and other events. The venue used ClearLED’s WALL product series. It can do 8,000 nits of brightness, which presumably means daylight …
Swiss AI Firm Advertima Bolsters Smart Digital Signage Team December 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Swiss computer vision firm Advertima has announced what appears to be a serious push into AI-driven solutions for digital signage, with a focus on retail. The company has hired an ex-Navori guy to run global sales and and former Toshiba guy as senior sales director. They’s also added a seasoned AI guy for …
D=SIGN Is Live – Are You Watching? December 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The inaugural D=SIGN online digital signage conference is now live. BrightSign’s Jeff Hastings is on right now talking about cloud networks. You can still register, and last time I heard there was north of 2,000 people who had done so. The free event is being run by AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation, and technically …
Touchless Merchandising Display Nicely Blends Creative With Interactive Projection Tech December 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The value of touchless retailing experience is the sort of thing that can be debated, but whether you think it is necessary or not in this health crisis, this is a very good example of how to get the creative and user experience right. This is an interactive retailing piece developed by the UK company …
