Dubal Mall Snapshots November 25, 2015 by Dave Haynes I went walkies Tuesday in a couple of Dubai mega-jumbo-Godzilla malls, guided by Nick Giorgetti of 2.0 Concepts, and took a buncha photos of signage installs. Back at the malls tomorrow. More pix to follow.
13 Options For Fine Pixel-Pitch Indoor LED Displays November 23, 2015 by Curtis Tilly You’re probably seen those big, bright digital billboards along a busy highway in your city, in a place like Times Square or in the form of those monster screens looming over the field at major sports stadiums. They look amazing … until you get up close. A few feet away they look anything but amazing. That …
Projects: Giant Curved OLED Clusters Suspended By LG At Seoul’s Airport November 21, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a bit of a statement by LG about its commitment to large-format OLED displays – 280 55-inch OLED displays in a couple of curved, suspended video walls in the terminal at Seoul, South Korea’s Incheon International Airport. LG worked the French design firm Wilmotte & Associés to develop the massive structures – a pair of curved …
Projects: NFL’s Patriots Add Interactive LED Towers To Game-Day Experience November 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Kraft Group, the family-owned company that owns Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, the NFL team that plays out of there, have done a technology upgrade around the facility that includes a set of striking, double-sided LED video columns at an attached fan attraction. The Hall at Patriot Place has four 22-feet-tall-by-4.5-feet-wide columns designed to …
US Lobby Group Warns Ultra HD Screens Can Be Energy Hogs November 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes Via Display Daily The emergence of LED-lit LCD displays and the disappearance of plasma displays would probably, reasonably, make end-users think that energy consumption is no longer much on an issue in digital signage deployments. LEDs, after all, are far more energy efficient than the older technologies that were light up flat panel displays. Turns …
Anthony, Real Digital Media Pair Up On New Transparent Display Doors November 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes Another set of companies has entered the competition to win the eyeballs, hearts and budgets of grocers, convenience store operators and consumer brands with connected, transparent LCD displays embedded in cooler and freezer doors. Sarasota, Florida-based signage software firm Real Digital Media and Anthony, which makes display equipment for refrigeration systems, are launching a new product …
Projects: Lowe’s Goes Virtual To Squeeze More SKUs Into NYC Stores November 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes Commercial space is insanely expensive in Manhattan, so if a big box store wants to have a footprint in New York City it has to slim down the number of SKUs it has on hand and get creative with how products are marketed. One of the ways the DIY chain Lowe’s is doing that is …
Joan E Ink Door Signs Honored In CES Innovation Awards November 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes The massive CES trade show in Las Vegas is just weeks away, and ahead of it each year, the newly renamed Consumer Technology Association runs an innovation showcase for selected products. There are dozens of honorees, for all kinds of tech and gadgets, and among them for 2016 is the Joan Meeting Room Assistant (or Joan), …
Projects: Using Slick Kiosks To Change Company Culture November 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting take on how something as simple as a kiosk pedestal can influence company culture. The gaming company Kabam redesigned the lobby of its San Francisco offices to celebrate the completion of a new product Star Wars: Uprising, it did up a Star Wars scene and layered in a pair of illuminated tablet-powered AURA kiosks from …
Projects: The Space Needle’s 20-Foot Wide SkyPad November 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes The CBS Morning News had a piece this morning about new technologies that have spruced up the 53-year-old Space Needle tower in Seattle, and the element that caught my eye was something it calls the SkyPad. Developed and guided by the local studio Belle & Wissell, the SkyPad interactive wall is a set of tiled …
