Renovated Office Block Switches On 84-Foot LED As Boston Media Band Experience February 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the renovated lobby and street-level facade of 110 High Street, part of an office tower complex in Boston’s Financial District. The new owners of the building commissioned a “multi-faceted capital enhancement plan” that included a new lobby and entrance built around what is called a “first-of-its-kind 84-foot digital Boston Media Band Experience.” The …
LED Market Analyst Eric Virey Clears Some Fog About LED Tech And All The Jargon February 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes I have always felt sorry for any poor soul who gets the arm put on them to go to a trade show and get schooled up on digital signage – because there are so many hardware and software companies selling variations on what is essentially the same stuff. I would really feel sorry for someone …
Theme Hotel Adds Huge Samsung LED Wall Behind Registration Desk February 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Fantasyland Hotel at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Canada is a large tourist-focused hotel bolted to the side of what was once the biggest shopping center on the planet. It is best known for its bizarro theme rooms – like ones with trucks and igloos or polynesian decor. Very odd place, though there …
LG-iGotcha Demo’ing Transparent LED Film At Next Week’s Dx3 In Toronto February 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’m not totally sure LG has publicly shown its LED on transparent film product in Canada, but if not, that will change next week at a retail marketing and tech event in Toronto, called Dx3. LG is working with Montreal’s iGotcha Media on a couple of showcases for the annual trade show, including a demo of …
Missed ISE?: This Futuresource Report Gives A Solid Tech Rundown, And It’s Free February 14, 2019 by Dave Haynes If you were unable to get to Integrated Systems Europe, but very badly want and need to know what all was shown and demo’d there, you are in luck. The market research/consultancy firm Futuresource had several people fanned out in the many halls of the Amsterdam RAI, and has produced a comprehensive 63-page report on …
Leyard’s R&D Head Sam Phenix Dishes On LED, OLED, VR And Everything Display February 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes I managed to squeeze in a few podcast interviews in and around ISE last week, and this is the first – a long-planned and finally realized talk with Sam Phenix, who is the VP of research and development for Planar and Leyard. That puts her in the middle of everything happening in the display market …
Lava Flows, Fluid Mechanics And The Deep Science Behind Video Wall Waterfalls February 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes If you’ve been to the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco, or certain resort casinos, you will have seen and been blown away by giant virtual waterfalls that appear on LED walls and wash down, over and around things like entryways. It’s kind of amazing, and way beyond much of what you see on big digital …
Christie Launches Next-Gen MicroTiles Based On LED Display Tech February 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes In an interesting and, I’d argue, puzzling move, Christie has re-launched its much-celebrated MicroTiles display series with technology that has very little shared DNA with the original, stackable projection cubes. The new MicroTiles are LED modules that are, in just about every respect, similar to the scores of other fine-pitch LED products out there. “Christie …
LA Office Tower Video Walls Light Up To Support Rams’ Super Bowl Appearance January 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes The LA-based design studio StandardVision collaborated with the LA Rams NFL team to develop content celebrating the team’s season and its appearance in Sunday’s Super Bowl game, against the New England Patriots. The company produced huge video banners that are now running at at the US Bank Tower (633 Hope Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90071) and One …
Irony: Coke’s Times Square LED Board Shape-Shifting Again, But Done In Creative January 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here is some serious irony for you … A NYC reader who has a deep background in out of home advertising periodically sends me images and videos of that ill-fated Coca-Cola display in Times Square – the one that used incredibly-complex robotics to deliver visual effects that could have just been done in the creative. …
