Twin Experiential LED Video Walls Light Up Lobby Of Chicago’s Aon Center January 4, 2018 by Super User The Aon Center, one of Chicago’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, has followed the lead of some other major commercial office properties in turning a feature in the lobby to a giant LED digital wall. Part of a recent renovation of its lobby and atrium included a pair of 42-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall direct view LED …
LG To Show 8K OLED At CES; Samsung Rumored To Show Micro LED TV January 2, 2018 by Super User Numerous tech blogs are reporting that LG will be showing an 8K OLED display this year at CES. The 88-inch display has a resolution of 7680×4320, which is 33 million+ pixels. “The successful development of the world’s first 8K OLED display is a milestone for the 8K era and underscores the exciting potential of OLED,” …
Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017 December 21, 2017 by Super User I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. Going down the list, which is not in any order, most of these …
See How A Lexus Gets Lit Up And Reactive With 42,000 LEDs December 20, 2017 by Super User Hat Tip Tom McGowan … This is about a year old but the first I’ve seen of an interesting car launch promo – tied in with a music video – that uses almost 42,000 hand-applied programmable LEDs to light up a Lexus luxury sedan. Three distinct modes, says a press release, allow the LIT IS …
LCBO Pop-Up Booze Store Uses Digital Touchpoints To Market Wine, Whiskey December 19, 2017 by Super User When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. The LCBO Pop-Up west of downtown Toronto, at the hipstery nexus of King Street and Portland, was set up to build awareness and attract new customers …
Denmark’s Realfiction To Launch Large-Format Hologram-like DeepFrame At CES December 13, 2017 by Super User The Danish company that has shown small pyramid-shaped hologram-like displays at recent Digital Signage Expos will be showing a much larger take on mixed reality at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas. Realfiction will he unveiling DeepFrame, a large glass window that uses the reflection of an OLED display’s image to create an overlay …
Free Xibo Digital Signage CMS Adds Commercial LG webOS Player December 12, 2017 by Super User The open source digital signage CMS Xibo now has a software player that will work happily with LG’s webOS smart displays, but it’s not free like the mothership CMS. The new webOS player has a one-time fee of 120 GBP, or about $160 USD. If you equated that to a SaaS fee over three years, …
Media Studies College Makes Giant Trapezoidal LED Display Lobby Centerpiece December 6, 2017 by Super User This is the lobby of the new home for the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) on the campus of Georgia State University, with the focal point a 34-foot wide trapezoidal curved LED display. The downtown Atlanta building is home to the university’s digital media and film industries studies. “Our new Creative Media Industries Institute building …
Why All Room Management Signboards Are Not Created Equal December 6, 2017 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea The modern workplace is undergoing a digital transformation, reinvented with the latest technologies to strengthen employee productivity, improve returns of investments on the facilities and enhance corporate image for visitors. One of the most significant changes happening at the doorsteps of the meeting room is the installation of a “room …
Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift November 29, 2017 by Super User A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick …
