Dubai’s Burj Khalifa Adds Cracking Virtual Glass Floor, Driven By Sensors January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes I always have mixed feelings around visual tricks designed to scare the living sh*t out of some unwitting visitors. It’s one thing if you are in a theme park or one of those Halloween pop-up places that are billed as scary. But introducing an abrupt scare into something that is, by nature, intimidating is one …
PORTL Founder David Nussbaum Explains Tech Behind His Hologram-Ish Displays January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes David Nussbaum has years invested in the whole idea of creating what are called holograms – but aren’t – for high profile concerts and other events. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. …
McDonald’s Completes 10,500 Drive-Thru Screen Rollout In US January 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes McDonald’s is without question a market leader and influencer in the QSR market, so news in the last two-three years that the chain restaurant giant was rolling out digital displays in its drive-thrus would certainly have been encouraging to any company developing and trying to market outdoor display technology. Now there’s more interesting and encouraging …
Hisense Drops OLED To Focus On ULED As Its Premium Display Tech January 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes More turbulence in the OLED display business – with a significant Chinese manufacturer bailing on the tech after only a year, and switching back to LCD. Hisense, which is mainly known for TVs but has a commercial displays business unit, has indicated that the OLED TV it debuted last year was the first and last. …
Watch How Screens Fill A New Florida Grocery In Unique Ways January 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes A new grocery store that opened last month in Naples, FL is interesting in a couple of ways – its food offer and its use of digital. The Seed To Table Market store is owned and was built by a local grower, and the majority of the fresh food is grown, raised and harvested within …
Expect To See A Lot Of Mini And Micro LED At ISE 2020 January 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe starts three weeks today in Amsterdam, and the PR is starting to roll in from display and software vendors, trumpeting what will be shown at stands at the big AV/IT trade show. A main thing I will be looking for that week is the expected advances in LED display tech, coming mainly …
Gamer Disables Digital Signage Screen At PDX Airport, Plugs In Playstation January 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes The argument can be made compellingly that a digital signage network operator can’t be expected to anticipate every crazy thing that might happen out at the displays, and I will therefore cut some slack for the IT people at Portland, Oregon’s airport – where a traveler turned a wayfinding sign at the terminal into a …
Report: MicroLED Adoption Expected Within Four Years As Tech Improves, Prices Fall January 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes A report from the Taiwan-based tech publication Digitimes suggests the microLED displays that are mostly seen these days at trade show stands will start seeing broad adoption as early as 2024, for a few reasons. While Sony and Samsung Electronics have unveiled micro LED-equivalent display modules, their prices are over US$50,000 per square meter, far …
NYC’s Chelsea Market DOOH Network Updated, Media Deal Extended January 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the advantages of smaller, more intimate shopping malls and other public spaces is that when digital OOH screens go in, those screens don’t need to be overly big (and expensive) to stand out from the visual noise and be noticed. This is a good example of that in Chelsea Market, a big old …
New Chicago School Has Big (And Big Dollar) OLED Art Feature In Lobby January 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes I have this scene in my head of teachers walking into a brand-new elementary school in Cicero, Illinois, looking at an art installation of 34 OLED displays that run up a wall and make a wavy ceiling, and quietly wondering about their skimpy salaries and tight school supply budgets. Located in Cicero, Illinois, a Chicago …
