This is the big training room at the newly-built corporate headquarters in Atlanta of SMC3 – which uses a pair of fine pitch LEDs to showcase the company’s products, train employees, and host corporate events. […]
Back in May, 16:9 related the story of a Costa Rican digital signage solutions company that, like many, had been adjusting its business and offer to deal with the pandemic. I liked, at the time, that the company was not just taking something from China and reselling it. Four months later, I checked in with Adrian Carmona of Idea Media, to find out how things have gone. […]
It has been a few years since NEC Display bucked the big trend toward hard-wired System on Chip displays by instead focusing on smart displays that could be upgraded just by opening a trap door and swapping out the smarts. There has not been a mad rush to go down NEC’s path, as the platform focused on a snap-in module version of the Raspberry Pi, the UK-origin low-cost micro PC. […]
Via Inavate The Silicon Valley tech company Prysm has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, selling off the collaboration software software and handing over other assets to Kuwaiti backers. […]
Ouva voice-activated AI assistant guides and informs patients during the COVID-19 pandemic by eliminating contact between healthcare workers and visitors & patients. Dallas (August 26, 2020) — It’s an early afternoon and Mary is on her way to visit her father who has recently been admitted to the Medical City Heart Hospital. […]
The New York-based LED display solutions company Primeview has announced a new line of indoor turn-key LED displays, including what the company says is the world’s first 32×9 aspect ratio standard, 3840×1080 pixel resolution, bezel-free panel display. […]
Photo Credit: LED Inside The Taiwan-based display manufacturer Innolux has started showing demos of a new kind of rollable 55-inch screen that uses direct view miniLED and is touted as a better, less expensive version of LG’s rollable OLEDs. […]
A pair of well-established direct view LED companies have merged, creating what they’re touting as a “powerful mix of the best minds in LED engineering,” developing a proprietary American product line. The merger is between Texas-based Southpaw Live and California-based D3 LED. […]
LG Display has confirmed those are versions of its transparent OLEDs being used as information displays on the windows of subway cars in China. I can’t find the source PR, but there are numerous tech blogs like this one reporting and quoting an LG exec about how the company is “the first company in the world to supply transparent OLED panels for windows on subway trains. […]
One of a few positives of the pandemic is that facilities like airports can do capital projects and add technologies with minimal disruption , with passenger traffic down hugely and line-ups short or gone. LAX is among the airports adding new digital capabilities. This is a nice use of a display totem (guessing those LG stretch LCDs) for wayfinding and instructional messaging inside the terminal. […]
A district government in Seoul has installed and switched on 10 smart bus shelters they say are safe to huddle in – with protection against the coronavirus AND the elements. The glass-walled transit stops in the Seongdong-gu district check body temperatures at the door, blocking entry if you are running a fever. They also have UV disinfection lamps, and hand sanitizer dispensers. […]
LG’s commercial display wing is circulating via Linkedin a proof of concept of a sliding access door for retail and publicly accessible buildings that has a transparent OLED embedded between sheets of window glass. […]
Reflect Systems, BrightSign, NEC Display Solutions and NEC Financial Services have partnered up on what they’re collectively calling a Retail Resurgence Program that bundles a set of solution-specific digital signage tech packages with easy, built-in financing options. […]
Christie has developed and made available a free “Lite” version of its excellent projection-mapping software, Christie Mystique, making it easy for solutions providers to map and project on complex shapes and surfaces. […]
One of the most powerful effects in digital signage jobs is to add the visuals in unexpected places and ways. This is a lobby at the new David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Designed by the NYC agency C&G Partners, the lobby’s welcome wall is called Dreams in Fiber Optic Wood. […]
