Belfast’s Main Live Events Venue Does Digital Signage Refresh Across Venue November 11, 2024 by Super User The SSE Arena in Belfast has had digital signage as part of its communication mix since 2015, and the 11,000-seat venue – Northern Ireland’s biggest live events destination – has now completed a big upgrade that includes a lot of LED display. The arena, which is home to everything from concerts to Belfast Giants ice …
Taco Bell Has Processed 2M+ Drive-Thru Orders Using AI; Now In Use at 300+ US Stores November 7, 2024 by Super User Hat tip to kiosk expert Craig Keefner for pointing to this … Anyone wondering if voice ordering in QSR drive-thrus would mature and would get adopted by consumers can reference what Taco Bell is doing in the U.S. The CFO of Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, said on a Q3 …
Start-up’s In-Cabin Digital Display Solution For Commercial Jets Permanently Grounded By Backers November 6, 2024 by Super User The German start-up that was developing a high-end commercial airplane information and entertainment solution built around OLED displays is shutting down, with the passenger cabin digital solution developed by Aerq and backed by Lufthansa and LG as a joint venture failing to get off the business runway. Started in 2019 by Lufthansa Technik and LG …
Quick Future Display Observations From Recent Travels, Inc. Color E Paper, MicroLED and Reflective LCD November 5, 2024 by Super User There are piles of interviews to write up and photos to sort through and edit from a bunch of recent travels to the US and over to Taiwan, and I will leave almost all of it to be detailed in a big special report on future display tech that will come out as a free …
Finance Firm Puts 15-Foot “Kinetic” LED Wall In Reno’d Global HQ Lobby November 5, 2024 by Super User This is an interesting video wall put together for the lobby of the renovated global headquarters of American Century Investments in Kansas City, by another KC company, Dimensional Innovations. DI worked with architect HOK and the Berkeley, CA creative tech shop Digital Ambiance, which handled the design, engineering and manufacture of custom LED panels and …
Back At HQ, Normal Posts Resuming As Jetlag Dissipates November 4, 2024 by Super User Back at World HQ after three flights and changing 12 time zones Saturday, which meant Sunday I was even more of an incoherent mess than my normal public presence. It is interesting to go from post-typhoon humidity walking into Taipei airport and waiting for a ride at the other end in Halifax and thinking I …
This Fine-Pitch COB LED So Light And Skinny It Hangs From Aircraft Cables October 30, 2024 by Super User I have seen some super-interesting stuff this week in Taiwan, and I will write those up for the report that will be out in early Q1, but here’s something I can relate now – a look at tech I have noted in the past but never seen in person. A company called PanelSemi, based at …
Why So Few Posts – I’m Seriously On The Road October 28, 2024 by Super User If you are wondering why the volume of posts have slowed to a trickle the last week or so, it’s because I am on an epic planes, trains and traffic research trip, and am typing this from my hotel room in Taipei at 6 in the morning. I’m not a good travel sleeper – planes …
This Window Glass Dynamically Shapeshifts, Grows Virtual Plants To Create Shade October 26, 2024 by Super User The Dutch start-up VideowindoW had a big moment this week at a trade show called Glass Technology Live, showing its very interesting dimmable glass that can use animated creative to block the glare and heat flooding a space like an airport departure seating area. Working with a consortium that included Arnold Glas and LamiPress, VideowindoW showed a …
Preview: Pix From Launch Event For Future Stores In London October 22, 2024 by Super User That very ambitious, digitally-driven pop-up store on Oxford Street in London had a preview party the other night, ahead of its formal opening next week. Future Stores is a space that brands can lease for short-terms – if for example a consumer device company with, I dunno, AR eyeglasses, wanted to make a big splash …
