Impressions From LED Land November 10, 2017 by Super User A ferry will take me this morning from Shenzhen, China to Hong Kong, which I am assuming is a far nicer way to get between the two cities than the subway rides I took to get here. Yeah, you can take the subway to China. It’s cheap and kinda sorta fast, but hard work if …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sean Levy, MediaSignage November 8, 2017 by Super User There’s no question that consumers like the word free, and it’s a term that has certainly worked for LA-based MediaSignage, which sees about 100 new accounts opened up everyday for its mostly free digital signage platform. There are lots of software offers in this business that are free for the first account, but you pay …
Report From LED Land November 7, 2017 by Super User Doing the drinking from a fire-hose thing in my LED learning trip to Taiwan and Asia. This a stack of reels of teeny LED packages – microscopic diodes mounted and sealed in cubes with lenses. The reels, with something like 3,000 diodes on them – are loaded into a robotic machine the size of a …
Taipei 101 Has An LED Display Cone Between Retail Floors November 6, 2017 by Super User The base levels of the tallest building in Taiwan – Taipei 101 – are a lot of retail and restaurants, and a lot of escalators. One of them had this multimedia set-up I can’t recalls seeing anywhere else – a fine-pitch LED display that runs up the span between the escalators. About halfway up the …
Heading To LED Land November 3, 2017 by Super User My butt gets sore just thinking about the long plane ride ahead this weekend – eventually taking me to Shenzhen, where most of the world’s consumer and business electronics are made. I’m going there for a few days to take a deep look at direct view LEDs – how they’re made, who makes them and …
Watch A Video Of The Digitally-Loaded Sephora Flagship In Barcelona November 3, 2017 by Super User Here’s a full video of the Sephora flagship that opened this summer in Barcelona. The entryway leading in to the escalator (or tube slide, if you feel like it) is all digital, and you can see some serious investment in creative. Very impressive.
MediaSignage Debuts $245 All-in Android Tablet For Interactive Digital Signage November 3, 2017 by Super User Lots of digital signage CMS companies have software that will run on a consumer or commercial tablet, or smaller, special-purpose displays, but LA-based software shop MediaSignage may be the first to market its own home-brewed tablet for interactive applications. The company has started shipping MediaTouch, a 10-inch Android-based tablet that costs just $245 USD. The …
Price Gap Between OLED And LCD Displays Closing November 3, 2017 by Super User Via Display Daily OLED displays have tended to generate a couple of uniform reactions from onlookers:1) they look amazing and 2) they’re amazingly expensive. The latter is changing, according to research firm IHS Markit, which says the manufacturing cost gap between OLED displays and LCD displays is closing. IHS says its OLED Display Cost Model analysis estimates …
Intersection Signs Downtown Philly For 100 Smart City Ad Screens November 2, 2017 by Super User The Google-backed media firm Intersection has reached an agreement to install 100 of its smart city ad posters on the streets of downtown Philadelphia, with the network dubbed LinkPHL. The large street-level kiosks will bring free gigabit public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging, wayfinding, local content and information, and be bankrolled by large street furniture-style …
MVIX Adds ChromeOS And Devices To Digital Signage CMS and Player Options November 1, 2017 by Super User The Washington, DC-area CMS and solutions company Mvix is the latest well-established software shop out there to develop a version that runs off the Google ChromeOS operating system and the variety of low-cost devices tuned to work with it. A just-launched product, Mvix Flex, supports the full Mvix platform and is available for download through the …
