This New Chinese Mall’s Signature Feature is Huge LED Waterfall Or Cylindrical Tower January 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes Finding details on projects that go up in China is rarely easy, and after seeing some images on a Linkedin post from an LED manufacturer, a few days after I got information suggesting that this was at a new urban shopping mall – Wuxi Yuanrong Plaza in Jiangsu Province, which is west of Shanghai. It …
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 …
75-inch Color E-paper Display For DOOH Networks Showing At ISE January 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes Well this is interesting … The Taiwan firm Agile Display Solutions has debuted what it calls the world’s first full color 75-inch e-paper display, at a digital out of home event in Belgium. The unit is an E Ink display – either Kaleido or the high-end, richer color Spectra 6. Agile already markets a 32-inch …
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 …
Samsung Demos A Small MicroLED Display That Can Be Bulged By As Much As 25%: CES January 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes Both Samsung and LG has been doing R&D work on stretchable displays. This is a video from CES at Samsung’s stand, showing an 11-inch microLED display with 120 pixels per inch that is flexible and, as the video demo shows, can support visuals that physically bulge from the screen. The microLED can be stretched by …
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 …
Clear Channel Continues EU Exit, Selling Europe North Business To Hamburg’s Bauer Media Group January 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes The US-based outdoor media company Clear Channel is continuing to back its way out of the EU market, with news now that the company has sold its Europe North business to a family-owned and run business that has operations in everything from radio and print to radio. Clear Channel has a binding agreement to sell …
Evexi CEO Andrew Broster On How His UK Software Firm Was Pulled Into Digital Signage January 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The UK software firm Evexi has an interesting story behind its move into digital signage – in that it was more a pull from a client than a push by the company itself. They got deeper into it because of a client’s needs, and then a change in technology support that really forced the hand …
Displace Shows Super-Premium Battery-Powered OLED TVs That Mount On Walls Using Just Suction January 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes CES always has a bunch of products on show that are interesting and buzzy, but don’t necessarily have much of a likely buyer market or make a pile of sense – and a Silcon Valley company that is back at the show with an update to its wireless TVs probably falls into that category. That …
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 …