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NEC Donates 2,000+ Displays To Charity Hospital Ship

NEC Display Solutions of America has stepped up in a big way to indirectly help sick and injured people in some of the poorest places on the planet, making a gift-in-kind donation of more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays to Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries. […]

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Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 2:11 PM

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16:9: OLEDs On Walls And Ceiling In Seoul Skyscraper Elevator

The elevator that takes visitors to the observatory level of the Lotte World Tower skyscraper in Seoul is lined floor to ceiling, AND ceiling, with OLED displays that for the minute-long ride up immerse people in scenes of the Korean mega-city. […]

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Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:11 AM

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Projects: Interactive Kiosk Does Car Dealer Service Desk’s Work After-Hours

Via Linkedin, here’s a Ford dealer in Albuquerque, NM using an interactive kiosk that does the work of an auto service desk after hours. The Panasonic Smart Service Kiosk handles drop off and payment, and gives you back your keys after said payment, all (I assume) geared to people who can’t do the drop-off or pick-up on the dealership’s opening hours schedule. […]

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Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:13 PM

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16:9: Back From The Dead: Transparent OLED, This Time Even Bigger

Transparent OLED was nowhere to be seen (or at least well-hidden) last week at InfoComm, but the tech is not dead. ZDnet (among many tech sites) is reporting that LG Display has developed a 77-inch transparent flexible display with Ultra High Definition (UHD) resolution. […]

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Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:47 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: James Fine, Telecine

James Fine has been around the digital signage ecosystem since the earliest days. He founded Telecine in the mid-80s to do high-end video production for the corporate sector. By the mid-90s, he was getting into signage, putting networked screens in Quebec casinos. […]

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Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:11 AM

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16:9: Subway Steps Up Digital Game; Adds Self-Ordering Kiosks, Menuboards

Subway is stepping up its digital game, adding self-ordering kiosks and digital menuboards in a bid to reverse three years of declining sales. Bloomberg reports that Subway is testing about 50 self-ordering kiosks that allow people to walk in and tailor their order, instead of doing the back and forth ordering with the worker actually adding the lettuce and tomatoes and other options. […]

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Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:00 PM

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Projects: 100 Square Metres OF LED In Lithuanian Cinema Lobby

This is the Forum cinema in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has invested in a big way in 3.9mm pitch LED screens and ambient content around the theatre’s lobby. The set-up was designed and installed by the Italian firm MacroPix. The total resolution is 4K plus and there is about 100 square metres of digital on the walls. […]

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Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:57 AM

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16:9 from Infocomm 2017: Day Two Impressions – Where Are The Gimmicks?

  My time on the floor was pretty finite on Day 2, but here some quick impressions … Panasonic now has a projection mapping software tool aimed at the sports market, going after Christie and its Mystique software, which makes projection mapping possible on the competition surfaces of, for example, an NBA or  NHL arena. […]

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Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 6:14 PM

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16:9 from InfoComm 2017: Day One Impressions

It was readily apparent to just about anyone that the big InfoComm pro AV trade show down in Orlando this week would include a lot of exhibit hall real estate filled up by LED display manufacturers. But I’ve never seen as many of them as I saw here – not even at the version of InfoComm staged right in China. […]

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Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM

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16:9: LG Launches Low-Rez See-Through LED Film at InfoComm

LG is formally launching a transparent LED film that’s meant to stick on things like windows and dividers and offer low-rez graphics. The tech is being launched for the North American market this week at InfoComm in Orlando, but was shown several months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. […]

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Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:41 AM

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16:9: E Ink’s Programmable Surfaces Gets More Colors

E Ink has added more colors to that programmable Prism technology that can be used to make things like feature walls in lobbies changeable. The Taiwan-based company says Prism will be available in seven paint-like colors that can switch out even using just a battery. […]

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Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:36 AM

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16:9: Digital sign maker NanoLumens files patent infringement lawsuits on four US competitors

interior of an empty modern courtroom Atlanta LED manufacturer NanoLumens has filed four patent infringement lawsuits against competing companies it says are marketing knock-offs of its flexible LED display panels, called nixels. […]

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Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:20 AM

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NanoLumens Adds Infrared-based Touch To Fine Pitch LED Displays

Atlanta-based LED manufacturer NanoLumens has added infra-red edge sensors to make its narrow pixel pitch LED walls interactive, if needed. “It used to be extremely difficult to add interactive elements to LED displays, but recent technological breakthroughs have made it much more feasible, practical, and affordable,” says NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope. […]

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Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:08 PM

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16:9: Massive Video Wall Lines Moving Sidewalk In Seoul Rail Station

This is a massive LCD video wall – maybe 16 wide by 3 high – in a corridor of a high speed rail station in Seoul, as spotted in LinkedIn from Sungwon Kim. No other details. The scale is impressive. […]

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Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:33 AM

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16:9: Panasonic Spin-Off Starts Demo’ing 8K Digital Signage Touch Tables

Source: Nikkie Asian Review The practical use-cases for 8K digital signage aren’t readily apparent, but a Japanese tech company owned in part by Panasonic is demonstrating just that – suggesting the demand for that is tied to the 2020 Olympics on Tokyo. […]

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Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:56 AM

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