Austrian Firm Uses Interactive Digital To Update Staffers On Factory Floor June 27, 2022 by Super User A few years back I did a consulting gig for a big auto manufacturer, and one of the first things I wanted to do was see the production floor. First, because it’s almost always interesting to see things being made by people and machines, but also to see the workplace dynamics and communications needs. One …
Here Are Details And Video Of That Stunning Lenticular LED Wall At Rebuilt Laguardia Airport June 24, 2022 by Super User If you get past the sheer wonder of New York’s LaGuardia Airport going from quite awful to quite nice, one of the true highlights of Delta’s brand new Terminal C is a grand-scale fine pitch LED mural that welcomes passengers into the departure hall. It was designed to borrow on the concept and delivery of …
Company Adds Screens To Anti-Theft Totems Common At Retail Gateways June 22, 2022 by Super User A Vancouver, BC-area company is marketing a display totem product for retail that, interesting, doubles up as a loss prevention tool. Just about any consumer will be familiar with vertical totems that shoppers need to walk though as they exit a store, with embedded electronics in the devices doing what’s called Electronic Article Surveillance loss …
Digital License Plate Vendor Reviver Wins Partial Approval; Adding Texas To States That Can Use Them June 22, 2022 by Super User A company built around the idea of replacing stamped metal license plates with connected, e-paper versions is starting to gain some traction – with U.S. state government clearance to sell and use them in Arizona, California, and Michigan, and now approval for them on commercial vehicles in Texas. Based near Sacramento, Reviver uses e-paper technology …
1M Daily Commuters Take A Color Bath At Tokyo’s Hyper-Busy Shinjuku Station June 22, 2022 by Super User Just stumbled on this 2021 project from Montreal’s Moment Factory – a grand-scale synchronized multimedia experience in the east-west passageway of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest transit hub. Called The Colour Bath, the project combines video displays with audio and sync’d lighting for content that changes throughout the station’s 24/7 days. Transforming the tunnel into …
Steel Giant’s VIP Bus Has Windows Overlaid With Transparent OLEDs June 21, 2022 by Super User All the information is in Korean and doesn’t give me many answers when translated, but I was nonetheless intrigued by this Youtube video of a bus specially kitted out with transparent OLED displays in all the windows. It was done by Hyun Sun Display, a Korean specialty display and integration company for Posco, a huge …
Korean Firm Marketing LCD In Film As Projection Screen June 21, 2022 by Super User One of my routines at trade shows – revived recently at InfoComm – is doing a big walk of an exhibit hall and going first to the back and sides, bypassing the big booths up front and in the middle. That tends to avoid the crowds at the start of a day, but some of …
Tech Joint Venture Touts New Digital Signage Options, Applications For Inside Commercial Jets June 20, 2022 by Super User Airports were among the earliest adopters of digital signage, for air traveller communications, and those venues continue to add more and more displays to tell people what to do, where to go and how much time they have. But the only approximation of digital signage on commercial jets has been the use of seatback displays …
Delta Air Lines Turning On Its First Parallel Reality Display At DTW Before Month Is Done June 17, 2022 by Super User Delta Air Lines plans to switch on what it calls the first-ever Parallel Reality display on Concourse A at Detroit’s airport at the end of this month – offering a way for up to 100 people to see content personalized to each viewer, at the same time. Huh? What? The technology was developed by the …
Ukraine’s President Zelensky Appears At Multiple EU Conferences Via One Of Those Hologram-Ish Set-Ups June 17, 2022 by Super User There is absolutely a gimmick side to the hologram-ish set-ups that are a bit like shower stalls with a transparent LCD front to them, like showing spinning NFT art or allowing people to pose for selfies with long-deceased rappers. But there are times when these displays can be quite powerful, and really the only way …
