Madrid Metro Upgrading Passenger Info Platform To Make Screens Smarter May 2, 2023 by Super User There are stories all the time about big mass transport venues that undergo renovations, upgrades and expansions, putting in big screens and flashy experiential set-ups. We hear far less, though, about infrastructure upgrades – like efforts by Madrid’s subway system to integrate more data and make its system smart for both passengers and operators. The …
More than 200 Displays Guide, Inform Rail Passengers At New Grand Central Madison In NYC May 1, 2023 by Super User A lot of mass transport infrastructure in the New York area has seen serious, much-needed upgrades in the last few years, and the latest is a new part of the Grand Central rail station that finally gives access to the Long Island rail system from the east side of Manhattan. For decades, if you were …
AUO Display Plus Debuts Screen-Integrated Meeting Pods For Airports April 28, 2023 by Super User If you travel a lot, you have likely walked along airport concourses that have little pods that can be rented/used for power naps or privacy for breastfeeding or pumping, and now the Taiwan manufacturer AUO Display Plus has developed an office pod that allows business travellers to do a meeting in an enclosed office. The …
How About An LED Video Wall That Folds Into A Golf Bag-Sized Roller Case? April 26, 2023 by Super User A Chinese LED display manufacturer has started marketing a solution that puts a totem-sized video display for the rental and portable market inside a roller case that’s roughly the size of those used by traveling golfers. As demo’d on Linkedin, the set-up from the Shenzhen company KX Display is stored in a heavy-duty travel case …
NYC’s Subway Screen Network Steadily Battered By Vandalism April 20, 2023 by Super User Photo credit: Fractenberg/The City Digital displays running everything from public information to advertising are having a rough ride on New York’s sprawling subway system – with 100s of LCD screens vandalized in just the past two and a half years. There is so much vandalism – from graffiti to shattered glass and damaged vending machines …
NY Company Touting Rear License Plates Of Vehicles As Part-Time Ad Displays April 19, 2023 by Super User Digital billboards and street furniture displays have long been used to advertise products to motorists as they make their way around an area, but a small New York company is suggesting the rear license plates on vehicles can also double up as digital OOH ad displays. An industry friend sent along the link to a …
Dubai Luxury Resort Invests Heavily in Fine Pitch LED And MicroLED Displays April 14, 2023 by Super User Fine pitch LED and microLED are big visual features at a glitzy new resort in a place where budgets are often not all that tight or fixed – Dubai. Atlantis The Royal, a new resort from on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, has big LED displays in the lobby, in the spa and on the pool …
Things We Don’t Need: A $6K Round 24-Inch Smart TV April 11, 2023 by Super User A Queens, NY company called Nova Vision is marketing what it says is the world’s first “Round Shape LCD Smart TV,” saying the $6,200 USD unit is “sure to make a statement in any room.” Unfortunately, I think the statement it makes is that any buyers had lost their minds. It is a 24-inch diameter …
E Ink Launches 3rd-Gen Color E-Paper Posters For Outdoor Ad Applications April 11, 2023 by Super User E Ink has announced a new, third-generation of color ePaper displays tuned to outdoor digital out of home (DOOH) applications, suggesting the static but digitally updated posters are particularly well-suited to meeting energy conservations guidelines and regulations bubbling up in regions like Europe. The new E Ink Kaleido 3 Outdoor is “based on print-color ePaper …
New-Gen E Ink Displays Feature More Saturated, Vivid Colors, Adds Flashing Sparkle Feature April 6, 2023 by Super User E-paper manufacturer E Ink has launched a new generation of its Spectra color displays that it says delivers more vivid, saturated visuals and includes the ability to draw consumer eyes by flashing elements of the otherwise static on-screen images. Spectra 6 – which I assume means this is the sixth generation – “builds upon the …
