New Seattle Arena Has 224 Distinct Daktronics Displays; Touted As Most LED-Filled Venue In Sports October 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The new sports and entertainment venue in Seattle – Climate Pledge Arena – opens tomorrow with 224 distinct LED displays around the building – 28,175 square feet of digital signage totaling more than 145 million pixels of display. The arena is the home of the new pro hockey franchise – the Seattle Kraken – but …
Not On My Bingo Card: Christie Digital Getting Into Pathogen-Killing Ceiling Lights October 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The pro AV and digital signage communities know Christie Digital for its projector systems and displays, so it’s slightly odd to see the engineering-led company getting into commercial disinfection products … until you remember who owns Christie. The company, which has a big offices in suburban LA but a main R&D and production facility in …
New London Pop-Up Venue Brings TopGolf’s Digital Razzle-Dazzle To Footy October 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes A pop-up venue in London, that you could very loosely describe as TopGolf for football players, is using interactive technologies to measure and celebrate skills. Called METRIX, the site at a shopping mall in the White City area creates a reactive sensory experience for players and fans who want to test or show off their …
Planar Takes Its Displays On Road This Fall For MicroPalooza Tour October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a nod to the travel-hesitant times, Planar is taking its display pots and pans on the road this fall – on what it calls the MicroPalooza 2021 Tour. The Oregon-based display manufacturer is staging a six-city US product tour in November through mid-December that will see its LCD and LED product showroom hauled to …
Study Suggests High Affinity For Digital Messaging Displays In Patient Care Environments October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes Selling non-medical technology solutions into the health care sector is long and involved at the best of times, but in the COVID-era even more so. But health care presents what is likely a big opportunity for companies who decide to go after it with solutions that directly address operational pain points. The e-paper giant E …
Edmonton Library System Blends LED And LCD For Big Wall In Flagship Branch October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am highly skeptical of the assertion that this is the “biggest digital wall in North America” – unless there are some qualifiers in there – but this installation in a public library in Edmonton, Alberta is nonetheless impressive. The Edmonton Public Library’s flagship Stanley A. Milner Library had a recent re-design that included a …
LED Mesh Displays In Windows Turn Iconic Madrid Bank Building Into Media Facade October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship Caixabank branch in Madrid, in Plaza Colón, that uses much of the facade of a Norman Foster-designed building as a screen. The digital aspect used see-through mesh LED displays in the windows, and there is a LOT of full-wall LED inside the branch, all running custom experiential content that does not …
Video Wall-Filled Bus “War Room” Sitting Unused In New York: Report October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Photo: NY Post The public transport authority for the city of New York opened a flashy, video wall-driven command and control center in Brooklyn a a couple of years ago, but those big screens have few or no viewers because the bus dispatch “war room” is already falling apart, the New York Post is reporting. …
QSR Chain Uses Transparent LCDs On Grab’n’Go Lockers To Guide Order Pickups October 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Transparent LCD displays have been around for a decade or more, but aside from those screens in grocery chiller doors, I’ve not seen widespread adoption or many use-cases that looked all that good or effective. But here’s one … This is a flagship location in Austria of True Chicken, a QSR chain that specializes in …
Italian Outdoor Brand Includes Small LED Screen On Packaging For New Fragrances October 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Tim Allan for making me aware of this post in Beauty Packaging, which is not exactly a regular read for me. The Italian Skiwear brand Moncler has resorted to the gimmick of putting what amounts to a low-tech digital sign on the bottles of its new fragrances for men and women. The woody, …
