Need To Hide Electronics For A Digital Signage Screen? Stick Them In A Drawer. March 11, 2022 by Super User Product innovation tends to be subtle and incremental in categories like flat panel and LED mounting hardware, and it’s hard (trust me here) to write something interesting about new variations on articulating arms and micro-adjustment thingies. But I came across what seems like an interesting approach to the challenge of tucking media players and other …
Shanghai Subway Adds 112-Meter-Long Fine Pitch Led Wall Along New Concourse March 9, 2022 by Super User One of the underground walkways between subway lines in central Shanghai now has a 112-meter-long fine pitch LED video display running along one wall. Yes, a 2.5mm pitch LED wall longer than the length of a football field – American or soccer. The LianTronics display is in the transfer passageway of Lujiazui station, on Shanghai’s …
Bat Signal Flashes In Movie Promo Running On World’s Tallest Ad Display March 4, 2022 by Super User The tallest building on the planet – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – is clad in LED light sticks that have enabled it to show visuals like very basic messages, huge photos and things like country colors. But I hadn’t really thought about the skyscraper’s media facade having tight enough pixels to run multimedia campaigns. …
14 LED Columns, Lighting, Wind-Driven Walls, Sync To Deliver Arrival Experience At Palm Springs-Area Resort March 3, 2022 by Super User It’s logical to think about the experience at a venue starting when visitors walk through the front doors, but it can actually start in the moments when people come on the property. That’s the thinking behind what’s termed the arrival experience at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa outside of Palm Springs, CA, which now …
Vancouver’s Ynvisible Says Its New E-Paper Displays Cut Energy Usage In Half March 3, 2022 by Super User Energy consumption and form factor are two of the key attributes of e-paper displays, so it’s notable when a company announces it has developed a version of it’s product that cuts power usage in half and has what it says are the thinnest, lightest displays on the market. Vancouver, BC-based manufacturer Ynvisible Interactive says its …
Immersive Floor-To-Ceiling LCDs Greet Lift Users At Edinburgh Shopping Mall March 1, 2022 by Super User My introduction to digital signage was almost 23 years ago (23 years???!!!) when I walked into an office tower elevator in downtown Toronto that had been kitted out with a small LCD screen up in one corner, and having seen how people all stared at that screen, I was convinced there was something there and …
Europe Has A New King Of The LED Ad Boards … In Suburban Vienna??? March 1, 2022 by Super User Via Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner Invidis … The largest LED Digital OOH display in Europe has long been the big Picadilly Lights display in central London, but an even larger screen has just lit up on an office building located in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. The semi-transparent LED appears, from, images, to cover …
Clever Solution Streamlines Airport Checkpoints With Screens, AI And Automated Barriers February 28, 2022 by Super User I am big fan of digital signage applications that may seem boring on the surface, but are spot-on in how they make something faster, better or easier. Here’s a great example of that mantra in action – airport queues for passenger screenings and/or passport and visa checks. A pair of companies – Qmetrix from Austria …
DISPLAX Turns Stretched 86-Inch LCD Into Wall-Mounted Piano February 28, 2022 by Super User This is a clever interactive display experience that converts an 86-inch stretch LCD display into a electronic keyboard. The demo developed by the Portuguese interactive technology shop DISPLAX probably has a limited range of practical applications, but has the benefit of being something loads of people would play with in a trade show stand, museums …
There’s A New Version Of That Digital Poster On Wheels, But The Original Question Persists: Why? February 25, 2022 by Super User I wrote a couple of years ago about a Dubai-based company that was marketing a three-sided ad poster on robotic wheels, and asked the simple question: Why? That company is still around, and RoboAds says it now has a new version – the RA-200 – that it calls the “most sophisticated signage robot that has been …
