IAdea Ships Small Smart Displays With Built-In Meeting Room Availability Light Bars June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes The meeting room signs market has grown to a point now that hardware manufacturers now make red and green LED colour bars part of the regular kit they sell with small, all-in-one displays. It wasn’t long ago, at all, that digital meeting room signs were pretty much done with consumer tablets or small open-frame LCDs. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Meric Adriansen, D3 June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes I find, more and more, that some of the more successful companies in this business are a bit like stealth submarines. They run silent and deep, and you don’t hear much about them or see them around. That would apply pretty nicely to D3, a New York company that is in the LED display business. …
NEC Donates 2,000+ Displays To Charity Hospital Ship June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions of America has stepped up in a big way to indirectly help sick and injured people in some of the poorest places on the planet, making a gift-in-kind donation of more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays to Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries. NEC Display will …
Panasonic, TransitScreen Form Smart City Alliance June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes Panasonic and TransitScreen have formed a strategic alliance that gives the North American wing of the Japanese tech company access to transport data to use in some of its smart city applications, marketed under a platform called CityNOW. The agreement, says a press release, will provide city residents and visitors with real-time transit and transportation information …
Four Winds Sets Dates For Third Forward Conference June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes Four Winds Interactive is going ahead with a third edition of its annual Forward conference in Denver, the software company’s home city. The Oct. 10-12 event targets existing and prospective clients, but is also pretty good networking for vendors within FWI’s ecosystem. I know companies like Scala and NDS (Netherlands) also do user events, though …
Projects: OLEDs On Walls And Ceiling In Seoul Skyscraper Elevator June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes The elevator that takes visitors to the observatory level of the Lotte World Tower skyscraper in Seoul is lined floor to ceiling, AND ceiling, with OLED displays that for the minute-long ride up immerse people in scenes of the Korean mega-city. The building is 555 meters (123 stories) tall, making it the the world’s fifth …
Dave Needs Women – 16:9 Podcast Summer Plans June 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m banking podcasts so they’ll be ready to air over the next few weeks, while I’m on an extended road trip – some interviews and also some advance work that might see World HQ relocated next year. The back-end stats on my cloud podcast host say between iTunes, Google Play, RSS feed apps and the …
Projects: Interactive Kiosk Does Car Dealer Service Desk’s Work After-Hours June 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Linkedin, here’s a Ford dealer in Albuquerque, NM using an interactive kiosk that does the work of an auto service desk after hours. The Panasonic Smart Service Kiosk handles drop off and payment, and gives you back your keys after said payment, all (I assume) geared to people who can’t do the drop-off or pick-up …
Back From The Dead: Transparent OLED, This Time Even Bigger June 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes Transparent OLED was nowhere to be seen (or at least well-hidden) last week at InfoComm, but the tech is not dead. ZDnet (among many tech sites) is reporting that LG Display has developed a 77-inch transparent flexible display with Ultra High Definition (UHD) resolution. “The development project was backed by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, …
Projects: World’s Largest Office Block Puts 60-Inch Screens In Its Elevators June 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes Elevators is what got me into digital signage waaaay back in 1999, so I am always intrigued by stories of how screens continue to be integrated in elevator cars. The giant Merchandise Mart in Chicago, a commercial building with 4.2 million sq. ft. of floor space, how has screens in 27 elevators – but not small …
