Tourist Stop In Zurich Uses 19-Wide LCD Video Wall To Promote Destinations November 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Big LCD-based video walls are growing less common as direct view LED takes over, but there are still some nice jobs out there – like this one at the Zurich Tourist Information Centre in Switzerland. The centre is located on the ground floor of the main concourse of Zurich Main station, and is there to …
More Details On The LED Set-Up At New Circa Resort In Las Vegas November 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes Daktronics has pushed out a fact sheet on ALL the direct view LED installed at the new Circa Resort and Casino, which opened last week on Fremont, in downtown Las Vegas. The resort has a MASSIVE sport book display inside, and giant displays poolside and on one facade of the hotel tower. The specs says: …
Sharp-NEC Finally Formalized; Now Sharp NEC Display Solutions, or SNDS November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The joint venture tie-up between Sharp Corporation and NEC Corporation has now been formalized, with the new company to be known from now on as Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. (or SNDS). The JV is the result, from months ago, of Sharp acquiring 66% of shares for NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Sharp is owned by …
Android 11 Now Working On Raspberry Pi 4s November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes If Raspberry Pi mini-PCs are part of your digital signage hardware mix – as a vendor, integrator or end-users – you may be intrigued by news that there is now support for the latest version of Android on the low-cost devices. 9to5 Google reports that a developer a developer has ported the Android 11-based OmniROM …
PORTL Closes $3M Raise, First COO; Reports 100 Hologram-ish Units Sold November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The LA startup that uses a highly optimized transparent LCD displays and enclosures to create life-sized, hologram-ish visual effects has completed a new $3 million fundraising round that will be used, in part, to devlop a small desktop version for content creators. Watching a video like this is the best way to explain PORTL, but …
First Arriving Integrates First Responder Management System With Its Digital Dashboards October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes Data integration and visualizing the right, real-time information are big parts of smart digital signage systems, so I am a fan of the hyper-vertical approach of a Richmond, VA company called First Arriving, which does digital dashboards for first responder services. The company integrates with the different systems fire, EMS and police use to manage …
6,000 Thermal Sensor Kiosks Running In, Psssst, Home Depots October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A smirking Hat Tip to Middletown, CT-based Reality Interactive for issuing a second press release about the same thing, and showing how tech companies are constrained by their clients in what they can say about big projects. The company put out PR recently indicating its contactless body temperature check screen-thingie was seeing marketplace adoption. First …
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Takes Shopping Mall Operator To Task Over Video Analytics, And It’s Just Stupid October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A bit of a shitstorm has spun up here in Canada over “news” Thursday that a major shopping center chain had been using computer vision in its malls to get a handle on shopper demographics, somehow threatening privacy in the process. A report from Canada’s privacy commissioner says Cadillac Fairview – which owns and runs …
Florida Sushi Chain Says Self-Order Kiosks Have Kept Them In Business Through Pandemic October 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes The conventional thinking – me included – at the start of the pandemic was that the future looked particularly dark for companies that focused on interactive touchscreen technology, but the opposite has happened – and here’s a tangible example of why. A small Florida chain of restaurants that specializes in sushi and operated on the …
E-Paper Real-Time Transit Signs Dot Bus Routes in Portuguese City October 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is one of numerous solar-powered, off-grid e-paper transit information displays in the Portuguese city of Coimbra. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal, the City of Coimbra is connected by an extensive bus (and trolleybus) network, with more than 2,000 kilometres of routes and 1,350 bus stops. The city started installing fully autonomous, solar-powered displays …
