LG Starts Marketing EV Charging Stations With Integrated, Multi-Purpose Touch Screens October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG’s energy solutions business is huge, particularly with respect to EV batteries, so it is logical that the company is pushing deeper into EV charging solutions with a new fast charging station that bakes in a touchscreen display. LG Business Solutions USA has announced it has started taking orders for its first Level 3 DC …
Israeli Start-up Demo’ing Full Color Highway Billboard Tech That Uses Almost No Power October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes An Israeli company is doing a demo next week in New York of billboard technology that you might think is what would happen if color e-paper and electro-mechanical technologies snuck off to a hotel room and ended up with a baby. The product developed by KA-Dynamic Color uses a distinct type of reflective display tech …
Industry Vets Nista, Arnett Launch MOTV Experiential Creative Agency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes A couple of well-known industry guys have teamed up to launch an experiential design agency focused on generative AI app development, generative art, and creative services that leverage data to drive immersive experiences. MOTV reflects a partnership by LA-based creative and coding vet Jim Nista and Toronto’s Michael Arnett, who has a long history of …
Spreading Festive Cheer And Driving Sales With In-Store Digital Signage Technologies: Spectrio October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes SPONSORED CONTENT By Ron Levac, Spectrio The holiday season is a critical time for retailers – with the period between October and the end of December often called the golden quarter for sales. A successful holiday season can make a retailer’s year, while a poor one can lead to losses, cash flow problems, and excess …
Outform Founder Ariel Haroush On The Power Of Digital In Retail, And His Ambitious New Future Stores Pop-Up Venture October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the particularly interesting things about Outform is how a company that’s been doing digital in retail for 20-plus years is not all that well known in digital signage circles. Not that it’s hurt the Miami-based company, which has offices and manufacturing facilities all over the world, and has delivered countless tech-centered shopper engagement …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
Walmart Using Digital Menus To Market New In-Store Pet Services Centers October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes US retailing giant Walmart has started opening what it calls pet services centers, offering what amounts to one-stop shopping for routine pet care needs and using big digital signage displays behind the reception desk to relay what’s available. The stores within the bigger store offer in-person and virtual veterinary care, pet prescription delivery, grooming services, …
LED Displays Now A $9B Global Market; Biggest Sales Growth Now In Americas: Futuresource October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a new fee-based report about the global LED display market, suggesting it expanded by more than 6% in 2023 and hit sales of $9.0 billion. In a summary of the report, Futuresource says the APAC region (including China), is the most active market, representing almost two-thirds of …
Fingers Crossed For Industry People And Companies In Tampa, As Monster Hurricane Approaches October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes There are numerous digital signage people and companies based in the Tampa, Florida area, which will within the next 48 hours get slammed by Hurricane Milton. The storm developed out of pretty much nothing off the Mexican coast and is now heading east to Florida’s west coast, with the “spaghetti” tracking models all pretty much …
Info Screen In Way Of Subway Station Renos, So Construction Crew Just Builds Around (Most Of) It October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes There will hopefully be some logic to this, but here’s a screwball workaround to dealing with passenger information displays while a subway station is undergoing renovations. Instead of taking a ceiling-mounted display down, the framing crew just built around the screen, so that just a portion of it is now visible to riders. This is …
