Flexible LEDs Create Giant Digital “Wisdom Tree” April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Shenzhen LED manufacturer Ocolour seems to specialize in somewhat unconventional products – both in shape and where they go. I see lots of interesting stuff from them posted on Linkedin, but I don’t tend to write about much of it because the descriptions often don’t do much more than say something is round, or …
Is This The Worst DOOH Deployment … Ever? April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Oh dear … The idea of putting ad screens in the washrooms of bars and restaurants – including embedded in urinals, no really – has been around forever, but as flawed as the early-stage DOOH networks in those environments might have been, they were brilliant when stacked up against this operating ad network in Malaysia. …
Did You Know A Curved LED Wall Could Support Touch? Me Neither … April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes When finer pitch LED video wall tech started coming on the market, one of the knocks other than the big one – high cost – was how the technology would not support touchscreen interactivity. The little light emitters were easily damaged or even knocked off, so big video walls were often roped off or had …
Elevator Giant Schindler Expands Its Own DOOH Media Network Via EU Partners April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes I found my way into the very nascent digital signage and DOOH sectors 25 years ago, puzzling the hell out of my daily newspaper colleagues by saying I was leaving the business to join a start-up that was putting ad-driven information screens in office tower elevators. Back then, the big international companies that manufactured, installed …
AI And The Other Technologies Helping Shape Experience In Auto Retailing April 25, 2024 by Robert Orndorff Guest Post: Robert Orndorff, Spectrio Customer experience, both pre and post sale, has always been at the heart of successful auto dealer operations, and steadily evolving display technologies are an increasingly big part of how those experiences are delivered and optimized. Screens in showrooms and waiting lounges are mainstays in most dealer environments, but emerging …
UK Firm Demos More Sensible Approach To Screens In Retail Chiller Fridges April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes A UK retail hardware solutions firm called Theravada is at the Retail Technology Show in London this week, among many vendors, and is showing what it calls a Digital Food To Go Cabinet. It’s interesting because it is a more sensible approach to the idea of blending digital displays with retail infrastructure like chiller fridges. …
How Sphere Has Triggered Global Interest In Making Big Structures Media Facades, With SACO Technologies CEO Jonathan Labbee April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I first spoke with Jonathan Labbee about the grand-scale media facades and displays being produced by SACO Technologies, the Sphere in Las Vegas was just yet another over-the-top thing rising up from the desert sands. Two years on, and a few months after the giant LED ball was first switched on, the Sphere is probably …
E Ink, AUO Partner To Develop Color E-Paper Poster Products Intended To Gradually Supplant Print Versions April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Two very different Taiwanese display manufacturers have teamed up up to develop e-paper displays aimed at gradually replacing the millions or billions of printed paper posters with richly colored, changeable, low-powered digital versions. E Ink has announced a strategic partnership and memorandum of understanding with AUO, one of the largest display manufacturers on the planet, …
Korbyt Anywhere Now Tied To Cisco’s Webex, Enabling Digital Signage On Meeting Displays April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Lots of announcements have found their way to my email inbox touting how CMS software companies have developed solutions that work with the video collaboration and meetings platforms Zoom and Microsoft Teams to turn inactive displays into digital signs, but I only remember one company that had also also integrated with Cisco’s Webex. Now there …
Loop Media’s Ongoing Losses Prompt Stock Listing Compliance Warning From NYSE April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes The digital place-based streaming content service Loop Media, which has been cutting costs and executives amidst financial struggles, now has a letter from the NYSE American stock exchange giving it a month to come into compliance with traded stock listing standards. LA-based Loop says it got a letter from the exchange advising the compliance issue …
