PepsiCo Using Big Displays, Projection-Mapping In Experiential Pop-Up For New Nitro Soda April 12, 2022 by Super User Soft drinks giant PepsiCo is using a combination of projection-mapping, interactive gesture software and large format displays to drive the experience at a pop-up venue opened to drive awareness and buzz for a new version of its flagship soda. The company gas taken over the lounge at the High Roller ferris wheel in Las Vegas …
New Global Lego HQ Includes What Appears To Be A Giant LED-Clad Lego Brick Chandelier April 5, 2022 by Super User After five years of planning and construction, the new global headquarters of LEGO was officially opened today in Billund, Denmark – with one of the design features being what appears to be a set of suspended four-sided LEDs above a central court that are shaped to look like giant Lego bricks. The whole campus takes …
Rise Display At Center Of SPAC’s Plans To Market LED Ticker Solutions In Growing Sports Betting Market April 5, 2022 by Super User Long-time LED ticker display provider Rise Display has a letter of intent to go into an “arm’s length business combination transaction” that would take it public and brand products as the Skybox Sports Network, selling hardware and software sold into gaming and sports betting markets in the U.S.A. and Canada. A special purpose acquisition company …
Sharp NEC Combine Commercial Display Product Line IN EU April 5, 2022 by Super User The entire commercial display range of Sharp and NEC is now being sold under one roof in Europe, as the merged companies continue to blend operations, sales and marketing. The companies did a joint venture almost two years ago that saw Sharp acquire 66% of shares for NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Since then, the blended …
MLB’s Mets Partner With Samsung To Upgrade Displays, IPTV At Home Park April 4, 2022 by Super User On the heels of word that the Toronto Blue Jays MLB team has seen its ballpark upgraded with a lot of LED comes news that another team – the New York Mets – have also unveiled a big digital upgrade at their ballpark, Citi Field. The ballpark in Queens has added a bunch of LED …
LCD Video Wall Market Demand Up Despite Perceived Migration To Direct View LED: Research March 31, 2022 by Super User Here’s a case of perception not being reality, with research data suggesting the LCD video wall market is seeing very solid growth at the moment, even though it might seem like the large format display business has shifted heavily from flat panels to direct view LED. However, it looks like a lot of the video …
US Grocer Startup Includes Touchless Self-Checkout In Frictionless Experience Mix March 25, 2022 by Super User A U.S. grocery start-up that’s pairing healthy foods with frictionless shopping is including touchless self-checkout screens as part of its technology mix. Called Nourish + Bloom Market, the Georgia-based company has plans to include self-checkout terminals that use hand-tracking hardware and related software from Ultraleap as part of the shopping experience. The store is billed …
Miami Art Exhibit Creates Flat Panel Spectacle To Show “Hollowness Of Spectacle” March 24, 2022 by Super User Warning: art-speak ahead … This is a digital art piece running on a stack of seven narrow bezel 55″ LCDs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami – a seven minute ode to movies and … something. Marco Brambilla describes the piece, Heaven’s Gate, as a “video monument to Hollywood’s veneration of glamour, while retelling the …
E Ink’s Newest Color Displays Boost Color And Contrast; Intended As Print Poster Replacements March 24, 2022 by Super User E Ink continues to evolve the capabilities of its color e-paper – with a new version of its larger format displays substantially boosting both its color and contrast metrics. The latest generation of the Taiwan company’s Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) platform, called E Ink Gallery Plus, has a color gamut “ideally reaching” 60,000, and a …
Commercial Flat Panel Display Volume up 20.1% Year-On-Year, Projection Flat: Futuresource March 22, 2022 by Super User Year-on-year volume global sales for commercial flat panel displays jumped 20.1% in 2021, according to new data from the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting, but commercial projector growth grew by just 0.2%. Given these numbers are tied to an exceptionally weird period of lockdowns, deferred projects and supply chain shortages, they may not be indicative …
