Swedish Grocer’s Flagship Adds Vast LED Display To Back Wall; Plus Digital Endcaps January 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Here’s More Details And Video From Biggest Immersive LED Attraction In Europe December 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s some more detail, and images, from a new Tornado Hunters theme park attraction in France, which features what’s billed as the largest 360-degree circular LED screen in Europe. The immersive theater for the Chasseurs de Tornades at Futuroscope in Poitiers, France uses some 800 Samsung-manufactured direct view LED cabinets to give the paying audience …
Watch A Video Of What’s Described As The Largest Transparent LED Film Install In Europe December 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is what LG says is the largest transparent LED film installation in Europe, running atop a set of windows at the entry to the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, the main arts center for that country. I couldn’t find much on the way of detail, but you can see both the impact and the …
LED Mainstreamed: Toronto Mosque Puts Pair Of 217-Inch Displays In Main Prayer Hall December 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes More evidence that LED displays are now mainstream products: one of the larger mosques in the greater Toronto area has switched out aging, dim projection equipment for a pair of large all-in-one direct view LED displays in its main prayer hall. The Jaffari Community Centre (JCC) is described as a Shia “161,000-square-foot multi-faceted facility that …
