This is the Esprit flagship store on Hong Kong’s Peking Road, which I stumbled across last night walking around the city. It’s a really, really different take on big digital facades, and like nothing I’ve seen before. What’s also a bit surprising is that it dates back more than eight years. […]
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 you have luggage. […]
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 fridge that then places them on a circuit board at blinding speed. […]
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. […]
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 how buyers are supposed to separate the great from the not-so. […]
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. […]
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 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 digital ad posters. […]
Sharp seems to be on the rebound after a seriously rough economic patch for the Japanese electronics giant. Less than three years ago there were big concerns Sharp was going under, having registered a nearly $2 billion loss. Now Reuters is reporting Sharp Corp has reported its fourth consecutive quarter of net profit, and sales are ticking along nicely. […]
Sony is reportedly planning to introduce an interactive digital signage platform at CES in Las Vegas in January that mashes up gesture sensors, augmented reality, audience analytics and signage. The Sony MITENE system has been around in Japan for several years, but a new 4K version will be shown and marketed in North America. […]
Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia is home to both the 76ers basketball team and Flyers hockey team, as well as the usual stream of arena-scale concerts and events (I’m looking at you Disney On Ice). […]
Here’s a sure sign that video wall LCD costs and digital out of home media demand and value have converged, at least in Los Angeles. This is a twin video wall in a parking garage at The Grove, a higher-end shopping mall and entertainment complex in LA, roughly in the Hollywood area. […]
In an interesting twist, at a time when many LCD display manufacturers are investing big-time on fine pitch LED product to offset the expected decline in video wall sales, a company known far more for LED and projectors is launching a flashy new LCD wall product. Belgium-based Barco is launching Barco UniSee – a full video wall platform built around what it calls bezel-less displays. […]
Google recently announced an Android Management API, designed for developers who want to integrate Android device and app management capabilities into their customer solutions, like digital signage. The API currently supports Android devices that are designed to perform a specific purpose use case, like playing out media. […]
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