LED And The Perils Of Public Reach April 17, 2018 by Super User Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. In plain terms, if they’re within public reach – …
Struggling German Visual Solutions Firm Eyevis Acquired By Chinese LED Giant Leyard April 17, 2018 by Super User The big LED display manufacturer Leyard, based in China, has acquired the German video wall and display cube company eyevis – giving the company a greater sales and marketing foothold in western Europe and into the Middle East. The announcement names both Leyard and Portland, OR-based Planar (which Leyard acquired) as the companies leading the …
How We Demystified Shelf Digital Tags, And Put Them To Use April 16, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Matt Downey, Freshwater Digital A couple of years ago my company started researching and contacting e-paper (or ESL manufacturers, as they’re commonly referred to) to learn more about the requirements, capabilities, and costs of digital shelf tags. We’re a digital signage solutions company to the core, but this new technology intrigued us. Living …
Danish Company Adds Tweakable Mood Settings To Art-Based Digital Signage Service April 14, 2018 by Super User A small Danish company has added a new wrinkle to its fine art-based digital signage content platform – tweakable mood settings. ArtPlayer, says a press release, can display artworks and nature pictures based on your selected mood setting: Happy, Sad, Calm, Excited, Awed, Disgusted, Angry or Afraid. This is done using artificial intelligence and advanced …
Research Suggests Buyer Confidence Increasing Numbers Per Site Of Commercial Displays April 13, 2018 by Super User New research is suggesting confidence in the durability of commercial display products will mean the numbers of them will grow, per location, by 20 percent over the next three years. A new report from the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and PMA Research says that growth will happen even though replacement cycles for displays …
New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps April 13, 2018 by Super User The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. The company says while it has for several years supported data integration with third-party platforms, IntuiFace Version 6.2 adds Web Triggers that work with …
16:9 Podcasts – Jenn Vail of E Ink On The Future of E-paper In Digital Signage April 11, 2018 by Super User E-paper has been around for 20-plus years and it has gradually been improving to a point that it makes operating, commercial and visual sense for digital signage applications. There are companies like Slovenia’s Visionect that do a really nice job of making small black and white displays look beautiful for applications that vary from meeting …
How To Screw Up A Digital Signage Deployment. April 10, 2018 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix While costs are certainly coming down, a comprehensive digital signage deployment is still a chunk of change. What a shame to spend all that money and then fumble the project when it comes to getting the system up and running. Unfortunately, that happens far more often than you might think. …
Startup Releases API For Cannabis Tech Companies, Including Digital Signage Solutions April 9, 2018 by Super User Via Pot Network With all of Canada going to legalized cannabis this summer and more U.S. states doing so (California is roughly the same population as Canada) there will be a lot of points of sale and a lot of digital menus and promo displays over the next few years. There’s a whole technology industry, …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Super User Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
