E-Paper Technology: Amazon’s First Color Kindle October 24, 2024October 22, 2024 by Antonia Hamberger With the launch of the Kindle Colorsoft, Amazon introduces its first e-reader with a color display. For the digital signage industry, this means that prices for e-paper displays could fall.
Preview: Pix From Launch Event For Future Stores In London October 22, 2024 by Super User That very ambitious, digitally-driven pop-up store on Oxford Street in London had a preview party the other night, ahead of its formal opening next week. Future Stores is a space that brands can lease for short-terms – if for example a consumer device company with, I dunno, AR eyeglasses, wanted to make a big splash …
Specialty Display Firm Praevar, Best Known For High-Bright LCDs, Goes Green With E Ink Posters October 22, 2024 by Super User A Toronto company known very much for its high-brightness outdoor LCD displays has taken a distinct pivot into e-paper poster displays that consume a fraction of the power. The specialty display manufacturer Praevar has started marketing a 32-inch ePoster based around the E Ink Spectra 6 display, aiming the product at indoor advertising and retail …
Lotsa Travel, Few Posts The Next Couple Of Weeks October 21, 2024 by Super User Posts will be limited the next couple of weeks because of travels – as I am heading to LA and then on to Taiwan this week and next – doing a pile of site visits and interviews for a big, and in hindsight overly-ambitious special report I am pulling together, to come out in January, …
Fixed: Pattison Crafts New Screen Layout To Deal With Screwball Hoarding Around Subway Screen October 21, 2024 by Super User You may recall a couple of weeks ago a post about the screwball workaround at a Toronto subway platform that saw construction hoarding built around part of a track information and ad display on the platform. It is a display managed by Pattison Outdoor, and the construction work was news to the media company. So, …
Korean Solutions Firm VECT Clearing Securities Hurdles To Do IPO October 21, 2024 by Super User Language, location and how private companies keep their financials to themselves means it is quite rare to come across data on how digital signage solutions companies do in other parts of the world, so it was interesting to come across a news report about a Korean firm that is planning to go public. It was …
Big 3 By 5 Meter Kinetic LED Tower Now Shape-Shifting At LG-Backed Korean Cultural Space October 21, 2024 by Super User Here’s a real world example of that kinetic LED tower that LG has shown this year at ISE and then InfoComm, an installation at a new cultural space in the Korean port city of Incheon. It is a bit of an inside job, so to speak, in that the venue – called Museum L – …
E Ink, Hanshow Launch 13.3-Inch Full Color E-Paper Display For Retail October 18, 2024 by Super User This is what’s at least described as the first commercial application of a full-color electronic paper display in a retail environment – at an Aeon China store in Changsha. I put the “described” qualifier in there because there often ends up being another example, done somewhere else. Whatever the case, it is certainly indicative of …
DIGICHIEF Debuts New API-Driven Content Feeds For Local Health Conditions October 18, 2024 by Super User Long-time subscription content provider DIGICHIEF has developed an interesting data partnership with a company that does what it calls healthcare intelligence to provide screen network operators with geo-targeted health information, like the prevalence of colds and flu in an area. It’s a collaboration between Lexington, KY-based DIGICHIEF, using APIs from IQVIA, which operates out of …
Optisigns Debuts Its Own $300 Pro Media Player, Paired With Its CMS Software October 18, 2024 by Super User Houston-based OptiSigns has developed and launched a third media player to a hardware line-up that pairs with its digital signage CMS platform – a $300 Pro version that slots in between an entry-level Android HDMI stick and a high-end 8K-ready unit. The OptiSigns Pro Player is a ruggedized unit, passively-cooled little box that can do …
