This Fine-Pitch COB LED So Light And Skinny It Hangs From Aircraft Cables October 30, 2024 by Super User I have seen some super-interesting stuff this week in Taiwan, and I will write those up for the report that will be out in early Q1, but here’s something I can relate now – a look at tech I have noted in the past but never seen in person. A company called PanelSemi, based at …
Charlotte’s NASCAR Track Upgrades To 200 Foot Wide LED Board October 30, 2024 by Super User Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina has lit up one of the larger LED displays on the planet – a 200 foot wide by 77 high beast visible to pretty much everyone who comes to watch NASCAR racing. The display was built and installed by Dallas-based GoVision, using DigiLED’s product. It is described as being …
Why So Few Posts – I’m Seriously On The Road October 28, 2024 by Super User If you are wondering why the volume of posts have slowed to a trickle the last week or so, it’s because I am on an epic planes, trains and traffic research trip, and am typing this from my hotel room in Taipei at 6 in the morning. I’m not a good travel sleeper – planes …
Preview: Pix From Launch Event For Future Stores In London October 22, 2024 by Super User That very ambitious, digitally-driven pop-up store on Oxford Street in London had a preview party the other night, ahead of its formal opening next week. Future Stores is a space that brands can lease for short-terms – if for example a consumer device company with, I dunno, AR eyeglasses, wanted to make a big splash …
Big 3 By 5 Meter Kinetic LED Tower Now Shape-Shifting At LG-Backed Korean Cultural Space October 21, 2024 by Super User Here’s a real world example of that kinetic LED tower that LG has shown this year at ISE and then InfoComm, an installation at a new cultural space in the Korean port city of Incheon. It is a bit of an inside job, so to speak, in that the venue – called Museum L – …
Sphere’s Owners Partner With Abu Dhabi Government To Put A Vegas-Scale Version In That Emirate October 16, 2024 by Super User Most observers will have long ago concluded that if another version of the Las Vegas Sphere was going to be built, it would likely be in the Gulf region – where big-money Wow Factors projects are regularly announced and often built. Sphere Entertainment, the live entertainment company that owns Sphere, has announced intentions to bring …
Downtown Dallas Sports Bar Installs Giant LED Halo Over Drinks Area October 11, 2024 by Super User This is a sports bar in Dallas that now how has a center-hug halo LED display over one of the drinks stations and visible to presumably everyone in the place. The Hero Bar at 3090 Nowitzki Way is next to the American Airlines Center, home arena to both the NHL’s Dallas Stars and NBA’s Dallas …
Telecom’s Tech Arm Makes Immersive LED Cube A Main Feature Of New Flagship Space In Madrid October 10, 2024 by Super User Telefónica Tech, the technology arm of the telecom giant Telefónica, has added an LED-driven immersive cube experience to its new flagship venue in Madrid, the Espacio Movistar. The cube is a five-sided installation that enables 360-degree immersive experiences using visual effects and surround sound. Visitors enter through a big stainless steel portal. The set-up uses …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Super User Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
LED Displays Now A $9B Global Market; Biggest Sales Growth Now In Americas: Futuresource October 8, 2024 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a new fee-based report about the global LED display market, suggesting it expanded by more than 6% in 2023 and hit sales of $9.0 billion. In a summary of the report, Futuresource says the APAC region (including China), is the most active market, representing almost two-thirds of …
