A Huge 260-Screen OLED Waterfall Scene Greets LG’s CES 2019 Stand Visitors January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Last year, CES visitors to LG’s stand walked along an OLED screen canyon. This year, there’s an OLED waterfall … kinda sorta. LG’s sprawling CES booth, by the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center, has 260 OLEDs in a dramatic, wavy waterfalls-like set-up. The OLED Falls exhibit has 76 concave, 72 convex and 112 flat …
Restaurant Tech Co Debuts Screen-Driven Order Pick-Up Podiums January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Trends in fast casual and QSR restaurants are having an interesting impact on digital signage usage in that sector, and new technology coming out of San Francisco company is a great example of a company adapting to a changing landscape. eatsa, which is somehow both a restaurant brand and technology provider, has announced the Spotlight …
Nanolumens CEO Rick Cope Has Left Company He Founded January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Nanolumens founder Rick Cope has left the company he founded and ran for several years, to pursue (as the saying goes) other interests. The colorful former US Marine built the Atlanta-area company up from the idea stage – marketing indoor LED displays that were skinny, light and flexible to a pro AV industry that had …
What Research Says Is Working With Digital Signage In Retail Banking January 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes This week we look at how the financial services industry is using digital signage in branches, and more to the point, what works and why. Angela Vanderburg is the Digital Practice Lead for Consumer Banking and Retail Financial Services for Q Division, the retail-focused digital strategy consultancy that was launched by STRATACACHE. She’s a shameless …
Microsoft, Kroger Team On Connected Grocery Service, Built Around Smart Shelf Screens January 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes Microsoft and the US grocer Kroger have partnered on a new connected store product – built around shelf-edge screens and cloud computing – called Retail as a Service (or RaaS). The idea is to streamline shopping for things like groceries, using smart shelves and things like portable scanners. The first elements of the service are …
First OLED, Then QLED, And Now ULED January 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes First there was OLED. Then QLED, which looks like OLED but is actually LCD tech. Now there is also ULED, which is like QLED, but different. The Chinese display manufacturer Hisense has started touting, via its CES appearance, ULED displays – which are conventional 4K LCDs that have a second LCD layer, using Quantum Dots …
Freeman, Pisano And Smith Added To DSF Board January 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) has announced the 2019 Board of Directors, including three newly elected at-large board members. Chris Freeman of United Airlines, Frank Pisano of BrightSign and Kelly Smith of Capital Networks were voted on to the board for two year terms. Wayne Rasor of FastSign and Will Amos of Diversified were each voted back on …
A Sliding Shelf-Edge Display That Recognizes The Products It Fronts January 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Stumbled via Linkedin on this video post about a retail merchandising solution that puts a tablet on a slider rail in front of a bank of related products. It’s from a San Francisco area company called OnQ that designs and manufactures category displays for retailers and brands. Instead of “push to learn more” buttons, sensors …
Samsung Debuts Jumbo And TV-Sized Versions Of The Wall Micro LED Display January 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung now has jumbo and small versions of The Wall – the micro LED display it introduced year ago at CES. The Korean electronics giant’s First Look CES 2019 event today features a new 219″ display and a 75” version that’s in line with the form factor for large TVs in homes. At last year’s …
LED Billboard Barge Cruising NYC’s Waters Predictably Upsetting Residents January 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes It should surprise exactly no one that at least some of the good residents of New York are not all that thrilled that a barge with big-ass LED screens on it is working as a floating billboard on the Hudson River. This Gothamist post lays out the public upset and civic position on Ballyhoo Media, …
