Changi Re-Opens Terminal 2 With Digital Waterfall, LED Halos And Virtual Sky November 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Singapore’s Changi Airport has consistently been ranked as one of the best airport experiences anywhere, and while there are undoubtedly many operational reasons for that, our interests here are of course on what it does with digital. After 3.5 years of work, the upgraded and expanded Terminal 2 fully reopened today – with the terminal …
SpinetiX, Sharp NEC Partner On Upgrade-Capable Smart Pro Displays October 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Swiss digital signage hardware/software SpinetiX has partnered with Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe to market a different take on so-called smart commercial displays – units that ship with Spinetix software on Intel compute modules that can slot-load into certain pro displays. The all-in-one displays run the Spinetix DSOS operating system and Arya CMS. One …
PPDS Upsizes Its E-Paper Tableaux Series With 32-Inch Unit To Launch At ISE October 30, 2023 by Dave Haynes PPDS is adding a modestly-upsized version of its full-color e-paper Tableaux display – a larger 32 inch version it will show for the first time at ISE in Barcelona. A 25 inch version of the Philips Tableaux series – the e-paper component is from E Ink – was brought on to the market earlier this …
Stretched Display Built Into Order Counter Presents Hot Chocolate Options At UK Shop October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an approach to digital menus I haven’t seen before – embedding one of those stretch “bar-type” LCD displays on a tilted stand on the order counter. It’s used by what I guess is a hot chocolate with marshmallow toppings shop in Lincoln, in the UK. There are conventional menu boards up behind the …
Interesting: A Big All-In-One LED Display That Folds In October 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes All in one LED displays are now commonplace across a variety of manufacturers – in part because they offer portability, but probably more so because the companies selling them and the customers buying them can readily get their heads around the idea of a giant TV. It’s far easier to explain a jumbo TV than …
Here’s a Very Different Use For Those LCD Ribbon Strips: Dynamic Name Plates For Legislators October 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes LCD ribbon strips have been around for many years now, but it’s only been in the last few that they’ve been natively made at these dimensions – lowering costs and upping reliability, because they’re not re-manufactured from bigger screens. Almost all of the attention has been around using these strips as shelf-edge displays in big …
100+ Square, Framed LCDs Celebrate Hamburger U Trainees At McDonald’s Global HQ October 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes There’s a lot of good stuff going on with the experiential design and execution for the relocated downtown Chicago headquarters building of QSR giant McDonald’s. The company was in suburban Chicago for decades, but shifted its global headquarters to the Chicago West Loop, in a historic-looking building designed by Gensler. The HQ opened in 2018, …
Racapé Leaving Post As Global Commercial Head For PPDS; Last Day Just Before ISE October 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes I don’t normally write about personnel stuff like new hires and departures because page view metrics clearly suggest few readers have much interest in that kind of news, but this is a big one: the guy who has been a big part of building up the profile and user base for Philips pro displays is …
Chilean Bakery Uses Digital Split-Flap Displays For Full Five-Screen Menu Board October 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes Most of the flip-disc and split-flap installations I’ve seen – old-school mechanical or digital – have tended to be single screens that are used more for the visual novelty than as a functional communications tool – which was the main use for the original spinning and chattering status board displays at airports and rail stations. …
Revel, Absen Forge Alliance To Chase Arena, Stadium Display And Signage Business October 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Utah-based solutions provider Revel Media Group has done a partnership deal with the US wing of Chinese LED manufacturer Absen to mutually chase business in sports and entertainment venues. Under this exciting alliance, says PR, Revel Media Group and Absen Inc. will champion each other’s products and services, with a specific focus on elevating the …
