Think of Casio and you probably (in pro AV) think of greener projectors. The general public, well, they might think first of timepieces, cameras or even musical instruments.

Yet the convergence between Casio and digital signage comes from a road less traveled: Casio owns a pocket of technology in EPOS (and hence commercial interest in selling to retailers).

At CES, Casio announced plans to "revolutionize" storefront advertising by launching a new digital signage business. Driving this new business is Casio Signage, a custom-designed screen where DLP helps them project a customized character to match the particular retail operation. A butcher pops up for a butcher store, a chef for a restaurant, a sandwich for a fast food store…ok, you get the idea.

Add content and voice and you have what looks to be a countertop digital signage that is unique—very different than most signage displays. Read more...

Project on it…write on it and erase. Designed for interactive short throw projectors, the Projecta Interactive Dry Erase Screen is a dual-purpose projection screen and writable marker board combination.

Projecta tells rAVe that what makes this screen stand out from anything else is that it has a superior projection surface that can be written on with dry erase markers. The projection surface has a gain of 2.5 and a 50-degree viewing angle. Also the projection surface practically eliminates the ambient light glare and hotspot that are known Read more...

Pico projectors continue to shoot up in popularity but here’s a new twist from Flanders: scientists at a Belgian university research lab developed a spherical, curved LCD projector embedded within a contact lens to display words and images.

Previously scientists have managed to integrate LEDs into contact lenses, but this has been limited to only a few pixels. The researchers at the University of Ghent and IMEC say their LCD-based technology is a big leap forward because it uses the entire display surface.

Researchers at the Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), IMEC’s lab at the University of Ghent, hopes this breakthrough could help people with damaged retinas by controlling light transmission towards the iris. Read more...

Medialine will bring to ISE their Android LED MONITOR series which features very low power consumption.

Leveraging the Android OS4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich), the Medialine Android LED MONITOR series are available in three different housings: 26” (HM916 landscape), 32”/40”/46” (HM970 landscape) and 40”/46”/55” (HM985 can be positioned landscape or portrait).

Via LAN, the unit can be remotely controlled. Comes in HD (26”/32”) or FULL HD (40”/46”/55”) with resolution 1920x1080.

Audio output 2x6W (26”/32”), 2x8Watt (40”/46”/55”) Comes with VESA mounting holes for professional use (such as digital signage), two USB 2.0 ports, and one HDMI port. Read more...