CRI, Uniguest And LG Team Up On 900-Screen Digital Refresh Of Vancouver Canucks’ Home Arena March 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes The sports and entertainment venue that’s home to the National Hockey League’s Vancouver Canucks, in Guess Where, has completed a big digital transformation that is nicely indicative of why these kinds of live events venues are now a big target vertical for a lot of digital signage technology providers. The technology refresh at Rogers Arena …
Video: Aussie QSR Using Conversational Voice AI To Process Drive-Thru Orders March 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes There have been numerous stories in the last couple of years of some of the largest quick service restaurant chains out there working with tech giants on AI-driven voice ordering in the drive-thru lanes, but I’ve not seen much about smaller regional QSRs having the resources or business ties to also test and possibly adopt …
An LED Display Light Enough To “Dance In The Air” Like A Flag March 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen LED displays cover buildings and fill windows, and even be used as fashion garments, but I’m not sure I’ve come across the suggestion that they could be used for waving flags. The Shenzhen LED manufacturer Coxeled is marketing something it calls the LED Flying Screen – a display it says is as flexible …
Bluefin Further Broadens Platform Support For Its All-In-One Flat Panels With SpinetiX Partnership March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes Atlanta specialty display firm Bluefin continues to broaden its range of supported platforms, with news its retail-centric all-in-one displays now support via Intel hardware the media playout software and custom operating system of Switzerland’s SpinetiX. Bluefin displays with SpinetiX enabled, says a web announcement, combine powerful display technology with a robust, user-friendly signage platform. Featuring …
AVIXA Puts Out Five Top Pro AV Considerations For Dealing With Tariff Turmoil March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes The pro AV trade association AVIXA – which owns and runs the InfoComm trade shows and co-owns ISE – has a market intelligence unit that produces both free and AVIXA member-based material that looks at the state of the industry and key issues like trade. So as you might expect, the market intelligence team has …
Here’s A 31-inch Color E-Paper Display Running Full Motion Video March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the well-established and oft-stated limitations of e-paper displays is how they only really support static images and cannot do motion graphics and video that look anything like what’s possible with more conventional display tech, most notably LCDs. But here’s a trade show demo of a Shenzhen embedded computing company running smooth-looking video on …
Health Tech Company Adopts Hollywood Sci-Fi Look For Display-Filled Welcome Center March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The very ambitious new headquarters of the Draper, Utah health tech firm LifeWave has a welcome center reminiscent of the set of a sci-fi movie and has what is described as the largest deployment to date of the super-skinny, architecture-focused Ventana LED display tiles. It also uses Sony OLEDs and LG Transparent OLEDs, as well …
DISPLAX Grows Its Support For PCAP Touchscreens All The Way To 135-inch Displays March 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Portuguese tech firm DISPLAX has focused on PCAP touchscreens for large format displays since 2011, but they’ve really now run with the idea of large format, with support for flat responsive touch panels as large as 135 inches diagonal. PCAP, if you don’t have much reason to know your way around touch technology, is …
Proto’s Virtual Presence Healthcare Solutions Now HIPAA-Compliant March 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes Marketing of display products that claim some type of hologram-ish visual effect has focused heavily on the whiz-bangery of the experience, and it is easy to forget that other technical aspects need to come into play for specific use-cases – like compliance with security and privacy standards in sensitive industries like health care. Among the …
German Firms Collaborate On Display That Disappears Into Surroundings March 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes The idea of using display tech to make visuals appear on unexpected surfaces is not overly new, but the German tech firm Data Modul has really gone after it with a small form factor prototype display it is showing this week at a trade show called Embedded World, in Nuremberg. German language content partner invidis …