New Content Partnership Puts Tenant Notices On High-Rise Elevator Screens July 9, 2019 by Super User Digital signage has been in elevators has been around longer than the term “digital signage” – but there’s still room for new things to happen in what is now, weirdly, an old medium. The Canadian OOH media company PATTISON Onestop has done a partnership with a company called Concierge Plus to put notifications and other …
Allsee Debuts Crazy-Thin Double-Sided Window Screens July 8, 2019 by Super User Double-sided LCD displays are definitely not new, nor are super-skinny ones, but the UK display company Allsee Technologies has launched a version that takes a cue from a big competitor, Samsung. The company’s new “Hanging Double-Sided Window Displays” have two different levels of brightness for the screens facing outside and into a business. The outside facing display …
Inkjet Printing Tech Expected To Lower Costs, Up Capacity For Big OLED Screens July 4, 2019 by Super User The research firm IHS Markit says OLED display costs are expected to drop as technology that effectively prints the displays matures and production capacity expands. Inkjet-printed (IJP) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to enter mass production next year, with capacity expected to rise as much as 12X from 2020 through 2024, …
Pop-Up Shop In Flashy UK Mall Uses AI To Highlight Trendiest Togs July 3, 2019 by Super User The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. The online retail public Essential Retail reports: The Trending Store pop-up, which will …
Pro AV Gig Matchmaker AV Junction Tweaks Business Model; Now Free To Use July 2, 2019 by Super User The Toronto area start-up that is trying to bring the gig economy to pro AV jobs has done a bit of a pivot, moving from a pay to play model to one that is now free and will go freemium. AV Junction has announced the launch of a free web platform designed to match pre-vetted AV …
Charlotte Office Tower Lobby Adds Huge, Curved 4K LED Wall July 2, 2019 by Super User This is a newly installed and fired-up direct view LED video wall in the lobby of a new office tower in the financial services-dominant downtown of Charlotte, NC, spotted on Linkedin. The thing is a beast – large enough to deliver 4K visuals even though the pixel pitch is 4.7mm, which is almost 2X the …
If You Sell Digital Signage Solutions Into Food Services, You’re Now Competing With Coca-Cola June 26, 2019 by Super User Well this is pretty interesting – digital signage CMS companies chasing the food services businesses have long known they had many competitors, big and small, but they probably never envisioned Coca-Cola being among them. The beverage giant has announced a partnership on a digital marketplace, to launch this fall, “that connects its foodservice customers to …
Smart City Proposal For Toronto Waterfront Takes Pains To Explain Data Use And Privacy Protection June 26, 2019 by Super User Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, has released an ambitious set of high level plans for a smart city district to be built on Toronto’s waterfront. The 1,500+ page master plan proposes that the company would fund up to $1.3 billion to transform a largely derelict 4.8-hectare waterfront property in an old docklands area into …
Why The Newest Raspberry Pi Made My Jaw Hit The Table June 25, 2019 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve You may have read about the Raspberry Pi 4 in the news. It’s big news for the whole world, from children’s code clubs, to office desktop use, to industrial applications such as digital signage. At Silver Curve, we adore the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Pi micro computer. I only got …
Touch Taiwan Expects 40,000 For Show Focused On Emerging Display Tech Like Micro & MiniLED June 24, 2019 by Super User This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. 28-30 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. …
