BMW Continues To Tinker With Color E-Paper As A Future Lux Car Skin April 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes BMW continues to tinker with the idea of applying color E Ink to the metal skins of its high-end cars – though it concedes the tech is not ready for anything more than controlled showcases at trade shows and other events. The latest iteration is making the rounds of art shows – a BMW i5 …
Retail Technology Show Opens Tomorrow In London; 15,000 Retail Folks But Only 10 Or So Digital Signage Vendors? April 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes It’s a silly thing, I know, but I am fixated on this notion that suppliers and service providers targeting a specific vertical market might want to put some investment and resources into being at the largest events in a region that address that market. So it’s a bit puzzling to see how few digital signage-focused …
Display Analysts Ted Romanowitz and Morris Garrard Of Futuresource Review Highlights And Observations From ISE 025 April 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research and advisory firm Futuresource Consulting sends a big team every year to the ISE trade show in Barcelona, and then a few weeks later releases a big report that serves as a technical recap for the pro AV community – both for people who could not attend, and for people like me …
Hold Please April 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes When I was in Barcelona for ISE, I was quietly telling a bunch of industry friends I was going to make a big announcement on April Fool’s Day – because I’ve been a smart-ass all my life, and why change now. But … circumstances have deferred that for a few weeks. It’s still a thing, …
Spain’s Trison Now Rolling Out 5,000 Digital Signage Projects Annually March 31, 2025 by Florian Rotberg This is an interesting post from German language content partner invidis – an interview with Alberto Caceres, the CEO of Trison, the biggest pure-play digital signage integrator in Europe. The company, you may recall, recently acquired New York-based Zero-In, giving it an office, people and customer footprint in the United States. With more than €120 …
The Uncomfortable Truth About Interactive Digital Wayfinders March 31, 2025 by Jordan Feil Guest Post: Jordan Feil, Digital Signage Consultant After 17 years in the digital signage software industry, I’ve picked up a funny habit: I can’t walk through a mall, airport, or office building without checking out every screen I see. I notice how good the content looks, where they put it, if it works well, and …
Turns Out E Ink Not The Only Company Making, Marketing Large Format Color E-Paper Displays March 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes There were a dozen or so pure-play and specialty display manufacturers at Integrated Systems Europe last month showing their adaptations of base E Ink color displays as their own early-stage or prototype products. One of the questions I was getting over there from industry people when we talked about that was around competition: As in …
BlueZoo Adds To Patent Stack For Its Passive WiFi Audience Measurement Tech March 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Silicon Valley audience measurement tech firm BlueZoo has been granted a seventh patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office, having to do with its use of what they call passive Wi-Fi technology to measure and log the presence and movement of people without risking privacy intrusion. “With the revelations of misuse of the …
Auto Displays Seen By Taiwan’s Ennostar As First Scaled Use-Case For MicroLED March 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a little nerdy but interesting, as it shows the direction of one of the Taiwan companies putting a lot of money and resources in microLED as an emerging part of the display market. Ennostar, which has Taiwanese display giant AU Optronics (AUO) as its biggest shareholder, sees automotive displays and lighting as the …
Spectrio Launches RMN Gateway To Turn In-Store Digital Signage Screens Into Revenue-Generating Assets March 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes Tampa-based digital signage software and systems provider Spectrio has boosted its capabilities for targeted retail customers with the launch of what the company calls RMN Gateway, which enables businesses to transform their in-store screen networks into revenue-generating retail media networks (RMNs). RMN Gateway enables retailers to monetize digital touchpoints like shelf-edge and end-cap screens by …
