Projects: Auckland Airport’s Duty-Free Adds Digital End-Caps August 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the duty free at Auckland, NZ’s international airport – one of a pair of The Loop shops at the terminal equipped with some 70 screens. The system was put in by NZ-based solutions provider Hydro Media, which first did 40 digital screens into The Loop’s refurbished arrivals store last year. “This led,” says …
The Towering Faces In Chicago’s Millennium Park Have Had Some Work Done August 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes The giant LED towers in Chicago’s Millennium Park have had an upgrade, replacing the original LED set-up with newer display tech, while retaining the integrity of the iconic public art piece. If you’ve been along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue and found you way into a sprawling downtown park, you would have seen two identical 50-foot-high glass brick …
Meeting Room Signs Business On Big Growth Curve August 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes Traffic on a baby sister site to 16:9 – called MeetingRoomSigns.biz – has grown steadily since its launch in early 2016, as have the leads that come in from a form and then get kicked to site sponsors. The sheer growth in the number of available meeting room sign solutions – more than 5X …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Kall, LightnTec August 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes LED billboards and signs are now commonplace, and not just in Times Square and other landmark locations in big cities. But putting in LED has its challenges. Cost is the obvious one, but there are other issues, like the engineering needed to ensure a structure can handle all the weight involved with typical LED boards. …
Peerless-AV Debuts All in One Kiosk With Built-In BrightSign Player August 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes Peerless-AV has started marketing an “All-in-One Kiosk” with a BrightSign full HD media player module built inside the 55-inch display unit. The integrated unit supports IR touch can run HTML5 content, which is going to be important if the application wants to build in things like live data feeds. “Our new All-in-One Kiosk is an …
Here’s A Look At Subway’s New Self-Service Order Kiosks August 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Linkedin Here’s a look at the new self service ordering kiosks piloted by the massive Subway QSR chain. Boston-based agency Agilitee put the program together – which enables diners to walk in and order a custom sub, as well as pay for it, as opposed to the normal routine of starting the order with a staffer …
Research: 800,000+ Digital Signage Displays Shipped Q1 2017 August 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes LOTS of interesting stuff in the new IHS Markit Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis, this one for Q2 2017. Here’s the top-line stuff in the executive summary: For the first quarter of 2017 (Q1 2017), public display monitor shipments increased 2.6%, with shipments reaching over 804,000 units. Public display TV shipments recovered from the …
Giant Wraparound 8mm LED Board Set To Officially Light Up At 20 Times Square August 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes This beast gets officially lit up Wednesday at 7 PM in Times Square in New York – a wraparound screen corner display that will be the largest in the world using exterior-grade 8mm pitch LED display blocks. The display at 20 Times Square has more than 17,000 square feet of LED. It’s been put in …
Projects: New Ford Dealer Opens With Digital Brand Halo August 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a big “brand halo” LED sign suspended over the main showroom reception desk at the new LaFontaine Ford in Birch Run, Michigan – north of Flint. It’s a fine-pitch Panasonic LED that with its metal backing and struts weighs about 1,000 pounds. It is suspended using aircraft cable. The set-up was put in …
Raspberry Pi-Based Info-Beamer Sets Up Video Walls In Seconds With QR Code-Like GPS Tags August 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m nowhere near smart enough to properly explain this, but suffice to say a start-up that works with Raspberry Pis for a digital signage solution has come up with a way for users to rapidly set up video walls using a smartphone app and little visual tags that provide GPS coordinates. The AprilTag detection software computes …
