Shifting From Chipsets To Vegan Sneakers: London’s LED-Filled Future Stores Gets New Tenant December 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes Intel has moved out and a VERY different brand has moved in to that hyper-ambitious immersive retailing pop-up store in central London. The new short-term tenant at the LED-dominated Futures Stores, on London’s Oxford Street, is the Scandinavian “urban-lux vegan trainer and apparel brand LØCI” – with substantial help and shared branding by the social …
CAPEX Spending By Display Manufacturers Surpasses $7B This Year; On Both LCD And OLED November 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes One indicator of the relative health of the display tech sector would be how much manufacturers are spending on equipment, and by that measure, the sector looks quite robust. But a 47% jump in spending in 2024 comes immediately on the heels of big dips in investment the previous year. The research and consulting firm …
New Downtown Toronto Bank Branch Draws Eyes With Some 250 Sq. Meters Of LED Display In Windows November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Chinese display manufacturer Muxwave will soon have another high-profile reference case for its in-window LED mesh displays – the windows of a new street-level branch of the Bank of Montreal in downtown Toronto. The branch, set to open Monday, is tied in with Toronto Eaton Centre, the busiest mall in Canada. It is at …
New Digital Board On Venetian In Vegas Wraps Around Resort Archway November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes The F1 race circuit is back in Las Vegas this week, so the city and glitzy Strip will be getting even more attention than usual. And taxi and ride share drivers will be using a lot of salty language as they crawl through traffic clogged by diversions needed to make the Strip a race track. …
A LOT Of LED Planned For Inside Of New Saudi Mega-Stadium Outside Riyadh November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Plans have been unveiled for yet another entertainment-themed mega-project in Saudi Arabia – this one for King Salman Stadium, which would be the largest-capacity stadium in that country and among the largest globally. While some recent Saudi project plans have a lot of very overt digital components, this one is the opposite in style – …
Dubai Mall Adds Shape-Shifting LED Halo Rings To Busy Atrium Area November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The sprawling Dubai Mall in Guess Where, UAE has added yet more digital bling – commissioning and seeing installed a five-ring LED halo sculpture suspended over the shopping center’s Fashion Catwalk Atrium. Each of 3.9mm pitch Daktronics LED halo rings measures 0.75 meters high by 24 meters in circumference. Halo LEDs are kinda sorta common, …
This LED Totem Folds In Half To Create Digital Sandwich Board November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen at trade shows a few versions of LED poster columns that can be pushed together to make larger displays, but I don’t think I’ve seen one that folds in half to create a shorter, back-to-back display for marketing inside or outside operations like retail or hospitality. As you can see from the video …
360-Degree LED Column, 10M-High Dynamic Windows At New Public Media Project In Taipei November 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Taipei now has an LED-driven public video installation that has some similarities to Outernet London, though not nearly at the same scale. Taipei Lumitree is a public-accessible media installation at the base of one of the many modern buildings in the same district as the Taipei 101 skyscraper. It has 254 square meters of LED …
Have A Look At This Crazily-Big Control Room LED Wall In China November 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes It has been my experience that when something is touted as the largest, there’s almost always something else, somewhere, that is even larger. Whatever the case, this newly switched-on control room screen in China would certainly be, at minimum, among the largest indoor LED video walls deployed to date. It is roughly 1,200 square meters …
LED Die Maker Cree Launches Product It Says Bridges Gap Between Old-School And New Display Tech November 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The American LED die manufacturer Cree has launched a new product for outdoor displays that it says bridges a gap between old-school through-hole LED and much newer surface-mounted device (SMD) display technologies. Cree LED says its new CV28D LEDs with what it calls “FusionBeam Technology provides a big boost in resolution and image quality and …
