Future Displays: Exploring The Display Technology Landscape Of Today And Tomorrow January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Who knows what displays will look like well into the future, but what we all see today is pretty much what we’re all going to see in five to 10 years – though their form and underlying technologies are most certainly evolving. And will continue to do so. This Future Displays report started out as …
UK Electronics Retailer Currys Expands Its “Connected Media” Network To Almost 300 Screen-Filled Stores January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes UK electronics retailer Currys is happy enough with what it has been seeing from its retail media network that it is expanding the footprint across its full estate of almost 300 stores in the UK and Ireland, with each of the stores typically having 100+ screens. The expanded Currys Connected Media network is a partnership …
Italian Solutions Provider M-Cube Now Using AI-Generated Music For In-Store Radio January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Italian digital solutions provider M-Cube, one of Europe’s largest pro AV integrators, has started using AI-generated music for in-store radio in the luxury retail market that is its main customer base. M-Lab is described as an AI-powered music catalog designed exclusively for the retail industry, with all the music in M-Lab created using AI …
E Ink, Wi-Charge Partner On Wirelessly-Powered Color E-Paper Posters January 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Israeli start-up Wi-Charge is starting to get some traction with its efforts to work with display manufacturers, working out a partnership that makes it possible to power E Ink’s top-of-the-line Spectra 6 color e-paper display panels. While e-paper displays already have dramatically lower power demands than conventional displays, they use batteries that gradually loose …
Bug Or Feature? When Color E-Paper Switches Images, It Glitches Out (And I Think That’s Good) January 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper is mainly being marketed as a sustainable and efficient replacement for paper posters, and E Ink’s newest Spectra 6 products produce visuals that are genuinely good enough to supplant print. They don’t use any energy when the static visual is loaded and displayed, but they have a bit of what looks like a …
Here’s A Super-Skinny Sliding OLED Display That Can Almost Double In Width January 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes CES is winding down in Las Vegas, and amid all the stupid reports about cute robots and autonomous vacuums that pick up stray socks, there are still reports of genuinely interesting stuff trickling out from the show. This caught my eye – a flexible OLED display that Chinese display giant BOE calls a 31.6″ Spliced …
Transparent OLED Media Chandelier At LG’s CES Booth Perhaps A Hint Of The Bling For Its ISE Stand? January 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes LG routinely puts a lot of money and effort into coming up with showstopper designs and digital bling for CES shows in Las Vegas, and in recent years (setting the COVID era aside), some of that bling has then shown up a few weeks later at ISE. So … we have at least two hints …
Screenfeed, Signagelive Deepen Technical Ties, With Content Subscriptions Available On CMS Side January 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes The subscription content company Screenfeed and one of its longtime CMS partners Signagelive have deepened their ties through an integration that brings Screenfeed’s many content options inside the Signagelive user experience and can be bought without leaving the CMS software, and without needing to register separately as a Screenfeed account. Screenfeed’s content feeds are now …
CRI Enhances AdLogic Retail Media Networks Platform Ahead Of NRF January 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities has evolved the retail media networks-focused AdLogic platform it picked up through its acquisition of Reflect, adding a new CPM+ module that it says enables advertisers and publishers to plan, manage and optimize campaigns in physical stores seamlessly and within a unified AdTech stack. “Retail Media Networks are reshaping the advertising landscape, and …
Userful Evolves Infinity Platform With Full Suite Of Workplace Visualization Tools, Including Signage Applications January 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes Calgary, Canada-based Userful has been steadily evolving its platform offer through the years, and is now positioning its offer “as a comprehensive suite of interconnected data visualization tools for both centralized and distributed operations” that includes a lot of workplace digital signage capabilities. Userful says its Infinity Platform gives users single license access to as …
