The Portuguese tech firm DISPLAX has focused on PCAP touchscreens for large format displays since 2011, but they’ve really now run with the idea ... […]
On the last day of ISE in Barcelona, I went early and walked waaaaay, waaaaay, waaaaaaay the hell back through the Fira Gran Via ... […]
This an interesting approach to doing an interactive video wall for a scenario in which budget restraints would almost certainly come into play – ... […]
What’s described by the vendor as the largest LED display at a European football stadium is in the process of going up (and appears ... […]
Instead of heading straight home from Integrated Systems Europe last month, I weirdly decided 17 Celsius and an AirBnB on a beach was more ... […]
A lot of different specialty display manufacturers have developed variations on digital out of home street furniture displays that have added components they then ... […]
This is a clever interactive display experience that converts an 86-inch stretch LCD display into a electronic keyboard. The demo developed by the Portuguese ... […]
I was on a call yesterday talking about how some of the most interesting work we’ve seen lately in digital signage probably looks pretty boring to people outside the industry – notably the use of queue management software for safer shopping. […]
There was much rolling of eyes, for many years, when companies in this sector would bring up QR codes as an exciting part of the communication mix. At its silly height, there were highway billboard ads that had QR codes on them – 300 feet away from the people seeing them. […]
TOMI launched a new way to interact with the device through remote control. The user only needs to read the QR Code with a smartphone and can explore all the contents (news, events, points of interest, public services, transport, …) or even take a photo. […]
There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what they needed. […]
One among many impressions I had walking around ISE a couple of weeks ago was that there were an awful lot of companies all marketing outdoor-rated displays, with me wondering if there was enough potential business out there to support them all. The other impression I had was how similar they all looked – big brushed stainless steel or powder-coated black vertical slabs. […]
There has been lots of talk through the years about how digital signage could be effectively bridged with smartphones, but I’ve seen very little exploration about bridging screens with printed material. A Portuguese start-up is marketing a smart catalogue that pairs a printed book with screens, changing on-screen material as a user flips pages in the book. […]
