Brad Koerner On How The Display And Experience Future Is Already Here, But Unevenly Distributed March 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes Brad Koerner is a Harvard-trained architect who has spent decades looking at how technology affects and defines built environments. He has a specific interest in technologies like lighting and digital displays. An American based now in beautiful Amsterdam, Koerner works with both end-users and technology companies. By his own admission, he’s obsessed by the question …
App Gets Transit Stop Displays Talking For Riders Who Are Blind Or Low Vision March 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting application that pairs a smart phone app with a color e-paper transit information display, enabling people with vision issues to hear key transit route and arrivals information. A UK company called React Accessibility is a supplier and manufacturer of technology intended to help people who are blind or have limited vision. …
Philips/PPDS Tighten Technology Ties With Red Bull F1 Racing Team March 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Philips display brand and the people who sell it have tightened their ties and profile with the hottest team in Formula One auto racing – Oracle Red Bull Racing. PPDS was already labelled as an Official Team Supplier, providing a variety of monitors and TV screens for the “paddock club” that sits atop the …
Canadian Start-Up VueReal Demos Tech That Prints MicroLED Displays As Fine As 30,000 Lights Per Inch March 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes When you start to get into the technical weeds on emerging display technology, you learn all kinds of mind-wobbling things – like R&D work to print super-premium microLED displays in kinda sorta the same way as commercial print shops do photos, documents and signs. A company in Waterloo, Ontario (the Kitchener-Waterloo area south of Toronto …
LED China’s Two Versions For 2023 Each Expecting 2,000 Vendors, 80K+ Attendees March 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes To get a sense of the sheer scale of the LED display manufacturing ecosystem in China – and the many, many companies who only or mostly sell domestically – consider that the two main trade fairs this year for that sector will each have about 2,000 vendors. A little confusingly (there are long-winded explanations but …
MediaVue Founder and CEO David DeGiorgi (1954-2023) March 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Sad news out of New England: the founder and CEO of the media play-out hardware and software services company MediaVue Systems has passed away. David DeGiorgi died on Saturday after a 16-month battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer. He passed peacefully, surrounded by his family, and is survived by his sisters, Debbie and …
Dutch Master’s Painting Comes Alive In New Coke 3D DOOH Spot March 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a fun little “activation” at a Brazilian airport that pairs a famous painting and consumer brand, using anamorphic illusion creative on a 90-degree corner LED billboard. The 17-century Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” comes alive in creative on a DOOH display owned and cold by JCDecaux at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International …
Dutch Start-up Videowindow’s Smart Glass Turns Glare Control Measures Into “Biophilic” Art March 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is very cool … smart architectural glass that does glare control wth nature-themed digital art. The Dutch startup VideowindoW has started marketing its Biophilic Glare Control – patented technology that can create a dappled natural light experience by rendering a canopy of leaves that is tied in to light sensors and VideoWindow’s software. Biophilic …
Proto Gets Canadian Patent For Its Hologram-Ish Video Display Device And Method March 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The company that first came up with the concept of using large transparent LCDs to create hologram-ish visual experiences has added Canada to its patent profile, building off the US patent it secured last year. LA-based Proto Inc. says its display and communications platform has had its 2022 USPTO patent recognized by the Canadian Intellectual …
Appspace Ties In Workplace-Focused Platform With Logitech’s Office Technology March 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The software firm Appspace has long leveraged partnerships with larger (and sometimes much larger, like Cisco) technology firms to open doors and chase deals with enterprise-level customers. With the company’s heavy focus now on what it calls workplace experience, Appspace is doing the work to integrate with hardware partners, including ones its customers might see …
