Innolux Demos Rollable 55-Inch MiniLED Display That Unfurls From Housing August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit: LED Inside The Taiwan-based display manufacturer Innolux has started showing demos of a new kind of rollable 55-inch screen that uses direct view miniLED and is touted as a better, less expensive version of LG’s rollable OLEDs. The company, part of the huge Foxconn group of tech companies, did a product premiere this …
D3, Southpaw Live Merge Their LED Businesses August 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes A pair of well-established direct view LED companies have merged, creating what they’re touting as a “powerful mix of the best minds in LED engineering,” developing a proprietary American product line. The merger is between Texas-based Southpaw Live and California-based D3 LED. Located in suburban Dallas, Southpaw has been around for 30 years and focuses …
Digital Facade Greets Deep-Pocketed Travelers At Louis Vuitton Store In Rome’s Airport August 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes The luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store at Rome’s international airport back in late February, just as the pandemic really started to take hold in Europe. So with airports almost empty for months on end, not that many people have likely seen the giant LED facade that welcomes shoppers to the store …
Bucket List Done In Giant 3D Toys On Seoul Shopping District LED Board August 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another terrific long-form art piece developed by the Seoul creative shop d’strict for a big outdoor LED display in that city. The display wraps around a corner of the SMTown Coex Artium building, part of the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in the upscale Gangnam district. This piece is called Giant Toy, and plays …
Subtle Animations Appear From The Wood Lobby Wall At NYC Cancer Care Center August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the most powerful effects in digital signage jobs is to add the visuals in unexpected places and ways. This is a lobby at the new David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Designed by the NYC agency C&G Partners, the lobby’s welcome wall is …
Display Week 2020: This New Mexico Spin-out Making MicroLED Displays On Paper-Thin Metal Foil August 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am virtually attending the Society for Information Display’s annual display-nerd festival – DisplayWeek. The live show was done in by COVID-19, but lives on as a virtual show. It is NO replacement for the real deal – having seen that last year in Silicon Valley – but a reasonable alternative, given our collectively crappy …
LG Starts US Marketing On Its NFC-driven, Cable-Free LED Display Series July 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has started making some noise on this side of the Pacific about a new kind of direct-view LED video wall that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. I wrote about the tech five weeks ago, when it was touted in South Korea. This new signage product – …
Orlando’s New Airport Terminal Schemes In Big LED Display Plans July 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes The new terminal rising at Orlando’s main airport – remember air travel? – is about 60% ready, and an update piece in the local newspaper indicates big direct view LED is central to the design and experience. The Orlando Sentinel reports: The new terminal will house a trio of digital displays, either floor-to-ceiling or several …
NBA Latest Pro Sports To Add Virtual Fans To Games Via LED July 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes HT, Shea Darlison at Rise Vision for noting this … Professional sports teams have been and are trying to figure out how to get back to live competitions when packing people into their venues is not allowed. There are a few places around the globe where live sports is on and fans are allowed in …
Biggest Indoor LED Mesh Ceiling In N.A. Switches On … In Maine Furniture Store July 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes The biggest indoor mesh LED ceiling in North America – unless you want to describe the Fremont Experience in Vegas that way – has been switched on in an unlikely location – a new furniture store at a mall in Portland, Maine. The Jordan’s Furniture chain opened its first store in Maine last week at …
