LG Shows 30-Inch Extra-Wide Transparent OLED At K-Display Trade Fair In Seoul August 17, 2023 by Super User The largest display industry exhibition in Korea is on right now in Seoul, with companies such as LG showcasing their latest product advances at what’s called K-Display. Organized by the Korea Display Industry Association, the runs Aug. 16-18 and has roughly 170 exhibiting vendors. The trade show component, as you might expect, is dominated by …
Wendy’s Rolling Out Next Gen Store Design To Meet Evolving Customer Needs August 16, 2023 by Super User Here’s a look at how Wendy’s is tweaking its stores to align with shifting consumer demands, notably a jump in digital orders. The QSR giant has opened a pair of stores in Kansas and Oklahoma that were built to its Global Next Gen restaurant design standard and the plan is to have more than 200 similar …
Swiss Railways Using Adobe’s Screens CMS To Drive Passenger Information Displays At Stations August 16, 2023 by Super User The Swiss rail system is known everywhere for its punctuality and attention to details, so let’s assume railway operator SBB was anything but slap-dash in the sourcing and selection process for software to run its passenger communications screens. The railway company went with Adobe Screens, the digital signage sub-product of Adobe Experience Manager to drive …
LG Launches Health Care-Focused Line Of “Patient Engagement” Displays August 16, 2023 by Super User The US wing of LG Business Solutions sees an opportunity in health care that gets beyond lobbies and waiting areas – launching a new line of what it calls “Patient Engagement Boards.” The LCD displays are intended to communicate key information in patient care areas on screens – improving the experience both for caregivers and patients. …
Bernd Albl Of Germany’s Umdasch Outlines How A “Store Maker” Approaches On-Premise Digital Signage August 15, 2023 by Super User The Austrian firm Umdasch refers to itself as The Store Makers – designing, building and kitting out retail stores at scale both in Europe and globally. About seven or eight years ago, the company looked at the shifting state of retail and realized that staying relevant meant adding digital to its toolset – a decision …
University R&D Team Develops Process To Write LED Displays With A Ballpoint Pen August 15, 2023 by Super User A university research lab that had already come up with a way to inkjet print LEDs has now figured out how to write them onto surfaces like paper and fabrics using a ballpoint pen. The R&D comes out of the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, under a team led …
AI Platform Relo Metrics Uses Computer Vision To Track Sponsor Impressions Across Mediums August 15, 2023 by Super User This technology isn’t directly related to digital signage work, but it has some interesting implications on a larger scale – a computer vision solution that tracks sponsorship impressions in environments like stadiums and arenas. A company called Relo Metrics (previously know as GumGum Sports) – which has an AI-powered sponsorship analytics platform – has integrated …
Sony Releases Dates For 2023-24 Pro Display Tech Road Show In US, Canada August 14, 2023 by Super User Sony has announced a series of dates running from the end of this month all way into February 2024 for road show stops by the company’s US pro display solutions team. The first stop in is Chicago, on Aug. 30th. The other dates: Minneapolis, MN – Tues, Sept. 12 New York, NY – Tues/Wed, Oct. …
LED Mainstreamed: A Fine-Pitch Video Wall At Airport Car Rental Counter August 14, 2023 by Super User Hat Tip Michael Warner of LG More evidence of LED being mainstreamed – an airport car rental counter with a 17-foot wide fine pitch LED video wall as a backdrop. It is a 17′ wide by 7′ high 2.5mm LG wall at DFW, for the German car rental operator SIXT. It uses Peerless AV mounting …
By Adding Back Of House Digital Signage For Workers, “Everything Improved” – QSR Operator August 14, 2023 by Super User Chicago-based UPshow has a good little sponsored content piece on the QSR magazine site that gets into the impacts of back-of-house staff messaging in a food services environment – noting how better communication led to boosts in performance metrics. The CEO of a multi-brand franchise operator realized on store site visits that critical messaging – …
