Big Curving LED Welcomes Visitors To Stanford’s New House Of Champions November 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Home of Champions hall of fame-ish center at Stanford University – an old basketball gymnasium in the athletic department’s building on campus that is now a central showcase for the school’s sports teams and individual athletes. Opened to the public in September 2017, the museum now houses over 40 displays celebrating the …
Times Square LED Boards Use Petition Data To Drive Impeach Trump Campaign November 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Setting the undoubtedly polarizing politics aside, a media buy involving a couple of big digital boards in Times Square looks interesting for what it is doing with visualized data. Maybe the content presentation is canned in some way, but it LOOKS like a private U.S. citizen’s big dollar effort to see President Trump impeached is …
Renovated Abu Dhabi Telecom Retailer Has Wall To Wall Screens November 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Linkedin This is the renovated Axiom Telecom store in Dalma Mall in Abu Dhabi – which has a Microsoft Store-like approach to LCD displays not just being screens on walls, but largely being the walls. I like. Axiom is a big retailer and distributor of wireless products in the region.
A Magic Interactive Mirror For Gyms November 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen no end of photos and videos of “magic” mirrors for fashion retailing applications, and one or two for hotel rooms, but this is the first suggestion of how an LCD mirror display with a touch overlay could be used in health and fitness. This is a video from UK-based Crystal Display Systems showing how …
ASU’s New Law Center Adds Three Very Different Video Walls November 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Arizona State University Beus Center for Law in downtown Phoenix,, which includes three very different video walls put in by integrator Level 3 Audiovisual. There is: An 11.5 ft high by 33 ft wide, multi-window-capable Nanolumens video wall that adjusts to the desert sun through the day; A 2×6 interactive Multitaction …
NDS, Tripleplay Add Support For Samsung’s Tizen Smart Display Platform November 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes A pair of well-established digital signage software firms across the Atlantic have announced integrations with Samsung’s Tizen-driven Smart Signage platform. The Dutch firm NDS has announced its flagship software PADS4 is the first software in the world that has been tested and approved by Samsung engineers to optimally run on Samsung’s System on Chip (SoC) …
A Kiosk Screen Stand Shaped Like A Longneck Beer Bottle November 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes There is no end of options for floor-standing digital signage displays being put together and shipped out of Guangdong, and they all pretty much look the same. Except this one. It’s an upside-down bottle shape, which is kinda clever. You could imagine a beer brand having some fun with the creative on this. Can’t speak …
Watch How That Giant LED Selfie Head In Columbus, OH Came Together November 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a really good explainer video about the giant selfie head that switched on as an interactive art piece a few weeks ago at the newly-renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. Design Communications Ltd., a fabricator of architectural specialties and custom experiential design elements, worked with artist Matthew Mohr to develop, engineer and fabricate …
Back At HQ After Week In LED Land November 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes Back at World HQ after a week in the heartlands of narrow pitch LED. As noted, the report will be out in January ahead of ISE. I’ll get back on regular news, though I don’t the impression all that much happened last week. I don’t know if it was a function of my not looking …
Esprit’s Giant Low-Rez Digital Facade In Kowloon November 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the Esprit flagship store on Hong Kong’s Peking Road, which I stumbled across last night walking around the city. It’s a really, really different take on big digital facades, and like nothing I’ve seen before. What’s also a bit surprising is that it dates back more than eight years. Three sides of the …
