Samsung Teases Frameless Transparent MicroLED Display At CES January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit – Sam Rutherford/Engadget CES is this week in Las Vegas, and while a hell of a lot of the reporting that comes out of the giant consumer tech show will involve stuff that will never really be available to buy and use, there are glimpses as always of what’s coming somewhere down the …
Bluefin Launches New Flex-OS Displays That Run Built-in Brightsign or Android, Or Use External Player January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based specialty display manufacturer Bluefin has broadened its product line to offer more flexibility in what play-out hardware and software can be used with its range of retail-centric shelf-edge and header displays. The company now has an LCD display line-up called Flex-OS that ranges from 27 to 55 inches in standard formats, but also include …
The ISE 2024 Badge Thing Is A Mess January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Scot who runs global partnerships for the huge AV integrator GPA put out a post this weekend on Linkedin that is framed as an open letter to the team that runs Integrated Systems Europe, suggesting the exhibitor and attendee badge plan in place for ISE three weeks from now is a recipe for opening …
ISE Updates: Mixer Status, DSS Conference Agenda, And A Key Tip On Getting In To The Show January 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was out walking with my wife Joy late yesterday, trying to march off some of unfortunate tummy expansion incurred in holiday eating and drinking, and saying, “Holy crap, we head to Barcelona in three weeks!” That trip and show came up fast, and I am now heavily into pulling together a variety of things …
Cybersecurity Firm Deploys Some 150 Sony Pro Displays For Multiple Uses Across Global Offices January 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an example of a company heavily adopting display technology across its workplaces, and standardizing on a manufacturer for everything from control room video walls to menu displays in the break areas. The cybersecurity company ReliaQuest has offices in Tampa, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Dublin, London and Pune, India, and has recently deployed roughly …
Ladies And Gentleman, Elvis Is Coming Back To The Building … Virtually, In London Later This Year January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis may have left the building and planet, but he’s coming back … sorta. Hat Tip to AV Interactive for reporting that Elvis Presley is being virtually raised from the dead to perform as a hologram-ish projected entity at a new immersive attraction targeted to open later this …
Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen a lot of real-world retail uses for those big transparent LCD shower stall-like displays marketed as holograms, but here’s an interesting pop-up example of one used during the Christmas season in the T3 terminal of Toronto’s main airport. Retail operator Paradies Lagardère – which has a big footprint in airports, hotels and …
Double-Curved LED Store Facade, Winding LED Ribbons Light Up Duty-Free At Abu Dhabi’s Expanded Airport January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a nice project involving the duty-free operator at Abu Dhabi’s main airport – with the main highlights a clever “double-curved” digital facade and big curving LED ribbon inside the store. The entry to the store has a half-circle tight-pitch LED that is curved both vertically and horizontally – like part of a sphere, …
LCD Flat Panel Production Starting To Make Shift From China To India: DSCC Prediction January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The display-focused research and consulting firm DSCC has an interesting (albeit nerdy) set of predictions up about what might happen in the next 12 months with the LCD, OLED and LED display businesses. I won’t go through them all, as you can read yourself (I think you might have to register). But here are two …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
