Clever Low-Tech COVID-19 Retail Access Solution Uses Cardboard, Bluetooth And Cheap LEDs August 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes My first reaction when a PR pitch about a COVID-19 Store Traffic solution arrived by email today was pretty much: “Oh God, another one …” Since the pandemic started, countless digital display and app solutions have come on the market, and a buyer or solutions provider would have to sort through a pile of them …
Display Week 2020: Dutch Start-Up’s Glare Controls Turn Curtain Glass Windows Into Screens August 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Innovation and start-up zones tend to be useful destinations at tech trade shows, because they usually have a few companies that are showing things that push new ideas and take different approaches to solutions. Amongst the virtual stands in the innovation zone at SID Display Week, this week, is a Dutch company from the Rotterdam …
Pro AV Revenues Forecast To Drop $7B In Americas In 2020; But Bounce Back In 2021-22 August 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes AVIXA, aka the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, is forecasting a $7 billion hit to pro AV revenues in the Americas in 2020, dropping 8% from 2019. The trade association’s new 2020 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) Americas Summary expects revenues to drop from $93B to $86B this year, but rebound in 2021 …
Display Week 2020: LG’s Future OLED Is Bendy, Flexy, See-Thru And As Big As Walls August 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am virtually wandering the exhibit hall of SID Display Week – mentally walking right on past a whole bunch of vendors that sell things like polymer microstructures and light measurement tools. But I am stopping and looking at some of what the display guys are toting this year. A lot of it is geared …
Display Week 2020: This New Mexico Spin-out Making MicroLED Displays On Paper-Thin Metal Foil August 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am virtually attending the Society for Information Display’s annual display-nerd festival – DisplayWeek. The live show was done in by COVID-19, but lives on as a virtual show. It is NO replacement for the real deal – having seen that last year in Silicon Valley – but a reasonable alternative, given our collectively crappy …
New WarnerMedia HQ In NYC Digitally Brands 27 Floors Of Workplace August 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive set of branded experiences that have been lit up in the new corporate head offices for WarnerMedia. The media company took on 27 floors of space at 30 Hudson Yards in New York, a relatively new development area on the west side of midtown Manhattan. The offices bring together numerous …
Novel Line-Up Safety Solution Blends IoT Sensors With Overhead Projections August 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes An Orlando AV solutions called Crafted Design has debuted an interesting take on the social distancing guidelines for line-ups – using overhead sensors and projection to keep safely spaced apart as the pandemic rages on. The solution is called QueueSight – using IoT sensors to detect people in a queue and projecting green, amber or …
LG Starts US Marketing On Its NFC-driven, Cable-Free LED Display Series July 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has started making some noise on this side of the Pacific about a new kind of direct-view LED video wall that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. I wrote about the tech five weeks ago, when it was touted in South Korea. This new signage product – …
Wallboard Gets Digital Signage Running On HP Printer Station Screens July 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes I walked away from my demo with Wallboard back in February, at ISE, thinking these guys had a strong mad scientists streak – and an integration with HP’s printing division kinda bears that out. The Hungarian CMS software company, which also has a big office in Dallas, showed me in Amsterdam a series of integrations …
3M End-Of-Lifes Its Touch Systems Business July 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes Minnesota tech giant 3M is exiting the touch systems business – announcing it is end-of-lifing the range of Surface Capacitive (SCT), Projected Capacitive (PCAP) touchscreens and display products now in production. They’ll stop taking orders on them by the end of October, and last shipments will be no later than the end of Q1 2021. …
