LG Plants OLED Palm Tree At Dubai’s GITEX Trade Show October 10, 2017 by Super User LG is using flexible OLED displays – made into a digital palm tree – as the centerpiece of its stand at the annual GITEX consumer electronics trade show and conference this week in Dubai. The OLEDs are open frame (no rigid borders) so they can flex concave or convex. The company has also been heavily …
Finland’s Valota Adds Former Angry Birds Exec As Advisor October 10, 2017 by Super User Finland’s Valota, which makes and markets the Valotalive platform for workplace communications on screens, has made an interesting addition to its advisory board – the longtime global brand ambassador for the Angry Birds game franchise. Peter Vesterbacka will, according to Valota, “use his global reputation and contacts to serve as Valotalive´s Brand Ambassador, accelerating the Espoo, …
Bunn Winds Down Consulting Work To Focus On Education Through New Center October 9, 2017 by Super User One of the better known faces in the North American side of the digital signage industry says he is re-tooling his business to focus on education, and wind down consulting work. Lyle Bunn sent me a note saying he’s started something called the Center for Digital Experience (CDX), which is all about end-user education through …
Does Your Idea Of Relaxing At Beach Include Watching Digital Billboards Float By? October 8, 2017 by Super User A Miami-based media start-up is running a boat along the Miami Beach shoreline that features back to back LED displays – effectively creating a floating billboard. So your relaxing day at the beach can now include big ads for ride-share services and local restaurants wafting back and forth. The 46-foot wide boards go back and …
ClearChannel Provides Las Vegas LED Board Inventory To Aid FBI Investigation October 7, 2017 by Super User The Las Vegas office of ClearChannel Outdoor has partnered with the FBI to put material on digital billboards around that city related to the recent shooting massacre. The boards will feature the slogan: “If you know something, say something.” People will be encouraged to call a tip line. While what happened and who did it was …
New Lloyds Flagship Branch Reimagines High Street Banking In UK October 6, 2017 by Super User UK-based Lloyds Bank has just opened a new flagship branch in Manchester – full of tech and customer comforts – that’s positioned as a re-imagined approach to high street banking. The branch has a coffee shop, a dedicated business hub aimed at attracting the start-up culture, free WiFi, and a lot of screens (including tabletop …
Video: 360 Degree Virtual Real Estate Tours Run Off A Chromebit October 6, 2017 by Super User I know very, very little about the inner workings of media players and things like graphic cards, but what I do know is that I have seen enough interactive virtual tours on different devices to know they’re often choppy and sluggish. They’re smooth, usually, when there’s a PC with a dedicated graphics card driving things. …
NYC Penn Station Adds Intersection Digital Screens On Amtrak Concourse October 6, 2017 by Super User Seriously busy, seriously dumpy NY Penn Station got a little bit of a digital facelift with the addition of a dozen digital totems in the Amtrak concourse, with the screens providing passenger information, bankrolled by digital OOH ad spots. The station handles a staggering 600,000 passengers a day, so it gets a lot of coveted …
Samsung’s Display Roadmap Adds More LED, More UHD, Ends Small And Square Screens October 5, 2017 by Super User Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. I made a rare trip away from the live bait shop/office to …
Sharp Starts Shipping Its 70-inch Video Wall-Ready LCDs October 4, 2017 by Super User We’re at a point with monitors that a 70-inch unit doesn’t even sound all that big anymore, but it’s a bit different when it is a monitor to use as one of many as a video wall. Sharp will start shipping this month a 70-inch display – the PN-V701 – built for 24/7 video walls. …
