Airport Trade Show Demo Has Fine Pitch LED Wrapping Jetway Entry As Departure Gate Portal April 29, 2024 by Super User Anyone who does a lot of commercial flying for business travel knows the quality of information on the screens at depature gates is all over the map – from rich and detailed to minimal and not all that useful, beyond confirming the gate number and destination. So it is interesting to see a departure gate …
Flexible LEDs Create Giant Digital “Wisdom Tree” April 25, 2024 by Super User The Shenzhen LED manufacturer Ocolour seems to specialize in somewhat unconventional products – both in shape and where they go. I see lots of interesting stuff from them posted on Linkedin, but I don’t tend to write about much of it because the descriptions often don’t do much more than say something is round, or …
Did You Know A Curved LED Wall Could Support Touch? Me Neither … April 25, 2024 by Super User When finer pitch LED video wall tech started coming on the market, one of the knocks other than the big one – high cost – was how the technology would not support touchscreen interactivity. The little light emitters were easily damaged or even knocked off, so big video walls were often roped off or had …
LED Mainstreamed: A Retail POP Fixture On A Pallet, With A Display On Its Front Face April 22, 2024 by Super User I have seen merchandising tables in big box environments like Best Buy and even Costco that have LED displays below the counter, so to speak, to draw attention and market product – but in another sign of this stuff being mainstreamed, it’s now being used for temporary POP displays on pallets that get plopped in …
Phish’s Four-Night Sphere Run Takes Predictably Different Visual Approach From U2 April 22, 2024 by Super User On Sunday night, the American rock band Phish finished the last of a four-night weekend run at Sphere in Las Vegas – the second touring act to put on performances that use the giant 16K curved screen as a backdrop. The freeform music of Phish is wildly different from Ireland’s U2, and that was reflected …
Future Tech: Researchers Makes LED Displays Inherently Interactive, And Solar Collectors April 18, 2024 by Super User As spotted in Display Daily, which is paywalled. One of the minor knocks against using LED display for video walls was how they did not support touchscreen interactivity, because the displays with micro-soldered light emitters were fragile and really not meant to be touched. It didn’t matter much because LED video walls didn’t tend to …
Oooops! – German Football Team’s Perimeter LED Displays Trashed As Fans Invade Pitch After Historic Win April 18, 2024 by Super User Hat Tip Craig Denholm for posting about this on Linkedin … LED ribbon displays – more formally known, I think, as perimeter screens – are common along the sidelines of professional football (soccer) playing surfaces around the globe. They are, by necessity, ruggedized to deal with balls being kicked at them, and players taking out …
Big Multimedia Cylinder Display Previewed For Houston Airport’s New Int’l Terminal April 17, 2024 by Super User When I spoke with Thibaut Duverneix of the Montreal creative studio Gentilhomme on a recent podcast, he alluded to work that was underway for a big multimedia display piece at the main airport in Houston, Texas. It won’t be live until some time in 2025, but Gentilhomme presumably has the OK from the airport to …
What If A Big Building’s Construction Wrap Or Hoarding Was A Display? April 17, 2024 by Super User The German company LightnTec has been steadily refining its unique LED display technology, which I’d inelegantly describe as a rugged tarpaulin that can double as a dynamic display. The Karlsruhe company has been at it for a few years now, and as happens with display tech, their products over time have become lighter, brighter, thinner …
Boring But Good: Denver’s Busy Airport Uses LED Header Banner At New TSA Checkpoint April 16, 2024 by Super User Denver International Airport recently opened a new 17-lane TSA security checkpoint on the terminal’s northwest end of Level 6, part of a $2.1B upgrade project at what is the third busiest airport in the US. The engineering and design firm Stantec is doing a big list of work at the airport, and one component is …
