SignageOS Expands Hardware-Software Handshakes To Include VCRs April 1, 2023 by Super User SignageOS has done a pile of integrations that bridge commercial CMS software to different operating systems and devices, and having done the heavy-lifting to create handshakes to devices like smart displays, it has turned attention to more traditional hardware – like VCRs. Despite VHS tapes being considered a technology from the 1980s, says the company …
Ocean Outdoor Bulks Up Deep Screen 3D Visual Illusions Offer With Complementary Tech March 31, 2023 by Super User UK-based OOH media company Ocean Outdoor evidently sees the use in the last three or so years of 3D illusions on big LED ad displays as much more than a flash in the pan, announcing a suite of complementary services intended to amplify creative spots in a curated set of locations. Back in August 2021, …
Workplace Occupancy Intelligence Platform Releases API That Helps Make Case For Office Screens March 31, 2023 by Super User Digital signage technology solved a persistent problem in a lot of workplaces by putting bookings and availability on screens right at the doors of office meeting spaces, and now related software and hardware is minimizing conflicts and chaos in offices that have dropped workstation assignments and shifted to hot-desking. Resolving disputes and confusion over who …
Chasing A Niche: French Firm Dematerializes Local Gov’t Legal Notices Using Screens March 30, 2023 by Super User I always advise smaller companies looking to get a foothold in the digital signage industry to be “the people” who do something in particular – finding a niche and offering a solution that solves a problem for that very particular activity. So I was intrigued to come across a French company that is marketing what …
Freshwater Digital Testing Content Automation Using Templates And ChatGPT AI Tools March 30, 2023 by Super User Michigan-based digital signage solutions firm Freshwater Digital has started using artificial intelligence to blend updated content feeds with pre-designed templates. Pre-designed, subject-specific templates for producing content have been around for years, as have data integration tools that pull information from sources like spreadsheet cells or networked folders, but Freshwater is testing a method that uses …
LG Launches “First” Digital Signage-Specific Projector, With Built-in SoC Smarts And webOS Support March 29, 2023 by Super User LG Electronics has taken the interesting step of developing and marketing a new 4K laser, 7,000 lumens projector it says is specifically tuned to the needs of digital signage applications. LG has been manufacturing and marketing projectors for years, but the main use-cases have been applications like corporate boardrooms and lecture theaters. What’s perhaps interesting …
DOOH Start-up iCleanse Pairs Smartphone Sanitizing Device With Ad Screen For Hospitals, Public Spaces March 29, 2023 by Super User A Hartford-area company is marketing a DOOH advertising solution that mashes up a screen paired with a device that uses UV-C light to sanitize phones, and rolls in a hand sanitizer dispenser beside it. Called iCleanse, the company’s websites suggests it is in some 100 hospitals across the US, as well as public spaces like …
App Gets Transit Stop Displays Talking For Riders Who Are Blind Or Low Vision March 28, 2023 by Super User This is an interesting application that pairs a smart phone app with a color e-paper transit information display, enabling people with vision issues to hear key transit route and arrivals information. A UK company called React Accessibility is a supplier and manufacturer of technology intended to help people who are blind or have limited vision. …
Philips/PPDS Tighten Technology Ties With Red Bull F1 Racing Team March 28, 2023 by Super User The Philips display brand and the people who sell it have tightened their ties and profile with the hottest team in Formula One auto racing – Oracle Red Bull Racing. PPDS was already labelled as an Official Team Supplier, providing a variety of monitors and TV screens for the “paddock club” that sits atop the …
Canadian Start-Up VueReal Demos Tech That Prints MicroLED Displays As Fine As 30,000 Lights Per Inch March 28, 2023 by Super User When you start to get into the technical weeds on emerging display technology, you learn all kinds of mind-wobbling things – like R&D work to print super-premium microLED displays in kinda sorta the same way as commercial print shops do photos, documents and signs. A company in Waterloo, Ontario (the Kitchener-Waterloo area south of Toronto …
