Taiwan’s HANNspree Starts Marketing Energy-Sipping Reflective “ecoVISION Paper Displays” August 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based flat panel display manufacturer HannStar, through its HANNspree division, has started advance marketing on what it calls an ecoVISION Paper Display – a reflective digital display that consumes up to 80% less power than traditional LED-backlit display panels. There are versions for e-readers and specialty monitors, but also a pair that have digital signage …
Cranky Virtual T-Rex Greets Visitors To Down Under Dino Museum Show August 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Melbourne Museum in Australia is using three big transparent LCDs tiled side-by-side to create the hologram-ish illusion that a rather cranky 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus named Victoria is greeting visitors to a new dinosaur exhibition. Victoria the T. rex is an interactive exhibition starring the real fossil skeleton of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus named Victoria. The show …
Fake And Faux OOH Are Becoming More And More Fact August 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Technology marketers have always been a little, let’s say, relaxed about the accuracy and validity of their product claims. So the influx of what has been dubbed fake DOOH over the past two years is really just a new chapter in a long-running story. The good news, however, is that audiences are now more aware …
Eyefactive Adds User Analytics To Interactive Platform August 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes The German interactive touchscreen software provider eyefactive has added analytics to its multi-touch content management platform, giving AppSuite customers detailed information about usage behavior on their interactive software projects. Now, says the Hamburg company, all user interactions on the device can be recorded and evaluated in various business intelligence tools such as Microsoft PowerBi or …
Quebecor Acquires One Of Canada’s Longest-Running DOOH Networks, NEO-OOH August 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the longest-running digital OOH and conventional OOH media companies – Montreal-based NEO OOH – has reached a deal to be acquired by the OOH division of Quebecor Media Inc. The deal gives Quebecor, a BIG player in Quebec media, a bigger footprint in other parts of Canada. NEO has more than 3,000 ad …
Samsung Shows R&D Prototype Of A MicroLED Display That Can Bulge And Bend August 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes Samsung’s R&D team showed off a prototype last week at a Korean display nerds conference of a microLED display that is stretchable, capable of bulging by as much as 25% more than its normal size and state. The demo was at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMID 2024) conference, which looks like a more …
Will There Be A Sixteen:Nine Digital Signage Industry Mixer At ISE? Yup! August 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes With summer winding down (sigh), the emails are starting to come in from people thinking well ahead, asking me if there will be a mixer at ISE in Barcelona. Yes, there will be, though it will likely be mid-December or maybe even January before I do registration. It sells out in a snap, so no …
This Cell Tower In Oman Doubles As Giant Digital DOOH Ad Totem August 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Damian Rezner, COO of Poland’s Screen Network, for noting this project on Linkedin … Cell phone towers have been disguised as trees and cactuses, and even church bell towers, but I’ve not come across anything like this – a cell phone tower in Oman that doubles as an LED DOOH and community …
Chanan Averbuch Shares How Blue Square X Prioritizes Creative With Its LED Display Solutions August 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes LED video wall technology is now so pervasive, and there are soooo many vendors, that it is increasingly hard for manufacturers to differentiate and compete. That’s compounded by a lot of manufacturers selling on specs like pixel pitch, and the form factor of their products. Very few, however, spend much if any time talking about …
Houston’s PickleJar Enhances The Digital Signage Toolset In Its Broader Live Music Venue Tech Offer August 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Houston company is going at the model of putting revenue-generating digital signage in bars from a different angle – making it part of a broader software and managed services model for bars that operate as live music venues, that includes e-commerce engines for ticketing and tips for performers. PickleJar Entertainment Group says an enhanced …
