Big Roadside Digital Board Now On Third Generation For Oklahoma Casino January 16, 2023 by Super User Here’s an interesting story about the evolution of roadside digital billboard displays – a big casino sign in Oklahoma now on its third generation. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa has lit up a new version of the giant sign along Interstate 44 – a big LED that rises 134 feet up from the …
Here’s A Helpful Explainer Video On How Visual Illusion Pieces Are Made And Work January 13, 2023 by Super User This is a very helpful post put up on Linkedin by UK-based freelance director and VFX artist Anthony Rubinstein – showing how visual illusions come together for big LED digital OOH screens, like the reference location in the post – Picadilly Circus. It’s great because he explains how this stuff works, notes how there is …
You Can Now Book 15 Seconds Of Digital Billboard Fame In Times Square – For $40 January 13, 2023 by Super User The owner/operators of a new multi-purpose development in NYC’s Times Square are making it possible for people to book 15 second messages on its 18,000-sq. ft. LED screen for $40 – an offer already taken up by a Scottish man, who used his fleeting moment of purchased fame to eat a slice of bread in …
Swedish Grocer’s Flagship Adds Vast LED Display To Back Wall; Plus Digital Endcaps January 12, 2023 by Super User Here’s yet more evidence that LED has been mainstreamed by the people who design things like retail spaces – a supermarket in Sweden that now sports a 16-meter-wide LED videowall over the bulk food section. The 52-foot LED wall is in a flagship store of the grocer Maxi ICA, at the Stormarknad Universitetet store in …
Future Displays: AUO Shows High-Rez Transparent MicroLED At CES January 10, 2023 by Super User MicroLED displays that are genuinely that technology – and not the almost microLED video walls marketed by display manufacturers – are starting to get demonstrated at consumer-focused trade shows like CES in Las Vegas, and the potential is exciting. As you can see in the main photo, this is an AUO display shown at the …
Watchfire Lists LED Displays With Local U.S. Government Purchasing Cooperative January 10, 2023 by Super User The Illinois-based LED display manufacturer Watchfire has announced an interesting little deal with a cooperative that simplifies and streamlines purchasing for a lot of municipalities, counties, school districts, and government entities. Watchfire now has a national purchasing contract for Parks and Recreation Equipment, Products, and Installation Services via something called the BuyBoard National Purchasing Cooperative. …
UK’s The LED Studio To Show Outdoor DOOH Display At ISE Powered In Part By Attached Solar Array January 9, 2023 by Super User UK-based LED manufacturer/marketer The LED Studio will be showing a version its fine pitch outdoor LED display at ISE, touting its ability to substantially reduce energy costs via an attachable solar canopy. The unit is a version of the AEGIS Pro 130″ outdoor kiosk solution announced by the company last summer – a unit that …
Twin Cities Airport Using LED Medallions At Curbside, Check-in To Help Guide Travellers January 5, 2023 by Super User Hat Tip to Craig Keefner, who runs the Kiosk Manufacturer Association, and has a detailed post up about the digital signage built into upgrades at the sprawling airport in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I did a post last month about four large LG LED displays in the terminal, but Keefner adds a lot more detail as well …
LightnTec Gets EU’s Financial Backing For Its Foil-Based LED Displays January 4, 2023 by Super User The German LED start-up LightnTec now has the European Union as a financial support for its super-thin foil-based displays, based on a grant from its 10 billion EU accelerator program. The European Innovation Council – which has a mandate of identifying, developing and scaling up “breakthrough technologies and game changing innovations” – lists LightnTec among several …
New LED Ceiling In Paris Office Block Works With Building’s Unique, Curvy Interior December 30, 2022 by Super User Let’s finish off 2022 on a positive note – highlighting a terrific creative job at a renovated building in Paris that respects and works with the building design and is not just a big screen filling a large interior space. This is 21 rue Châteaudun, an 1930s office building in Paris that was influenced by …