LED Screens Starting To See Adoption By Cinema December 10, 2018 by Super User It would not have been unreasonable to look at Samsung’s push into digital cinema – marketing fine pitch, direct view LEDs as an alternative to screens and projectors – as an interesting concept, but not one that would see much adoption because of cost. I saw a proof of concept at a special booth at …
Sports Retailer Decathlon’s First US Store Features LED Video Wall December 3, 2018 by Super User Decathlon is the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, with more than 1,350 stores in 39 countries, but the French company only recently entered the US market. Decathlon Sports has moved into 8,313 square feet on the ground-floor space of 735 Market Street, a building designed by legendary architect Willis Polk and opened in 1908, in …
LED Feature Walls Give Renovated Space Center Shop Lift-Off December 3, 2018 by Super User This is what’s called the World’s Largest Space Shop, a renovated 15,372 sq. ft. retail space at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s east coast. The shop re-opened in June this year, upgraded among many things by big indoor and outdoor LED feature walls and interactive screens, all via RMG Networks. The solution uses …
20+ LED Screen Firms Fined By FCC For Compliance Problems; Two For More Than $100K November 30, 2018 by Super User Some US LED sign manufacturers started making noises a couple of years ago about competing manufacturers – especially those from China – were selling product that did not comply with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations. The primary argument was that the FCC has rules in place that ensure light-emitting display devices do not interfere …
Sydney’s New Train Ops Center Boasts Largest Control Room LED Wall On Planet November 28, 2018 by Super User A lot of the larger LED companies – particularly ones from China – have been going after the control room market with its finest pitch LED product, the thinking being large public and private companies might have deeper pockets than retail and other vertical industries. But it looks like a U.S.-based manufacturer has bagged the …
That Insane ETISALAT Booth At GITEX Also Had Shape-Shifting LED Walls November 27, 2018 by Super User One of the buzziest impressions from the recent GITEX trade show in Dubai – a very large, by the looks of it moderately crazy variation on CES – was the way, way, way over-the-top ETISALAT booth – with the telecoms company having LED everywhere, and a flying car (only kinda sorta – it appeared to …
New Spanish Shopping Mall Greets, Entertains With Giant, Curved LED Facade November 26, 2018 by Super User This is a new shopping mall – Torrecardenas – in Almeria,Spain, on the south coast, about 200 km east of Malaga (if that means anything to you). The mall developers went very big on direct view LED on a curved wall by the main entry point. What I like, based on the videos below, is …
Nike Opens Screen-Filled, Frictionless Shopping Flagship In NYC November 19, 2018 by Super User Nike late last week opened the doors to what it calls “House of Innovation 000” – a new six-level flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York that is built around making shopping largely frictionless, and uses a lot of screens. The 68,000 square foot store includes a center-hung, multi-level not-sure-what-I’d-call-it multi-sensory tower structure …
Sony’s Crystal LED Wall Spotted In Real World Retail Install November 9, 2018 by Super User A reader, doubling as a volunteer operative, sent me pix from Toronto’s ritzy Yorkdale mall of an actual, real installation of that giant, gorgeous Sony “crystal LED” screen that’s shown up at trade shows for the last couple of years. The CLEDIS display – new tech that is micro/mini/something LED versus the normal surface-mounted LEDs …
LED Light Displays Show The Ebb And Flow Of Boston’s Tides, Using Data Visualization November 8, 2018 by Super User This is one of those projects that treads the line between light and signage – though I’d probably argue it’s much more about lighting. But very smart lighting, that is visualizing data. So kinda signage. Which is why I am writing about it. Tidal Light is a public data sculpture that uses addressable LED light …
