Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Super User I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
Home To Raptors, Leafs Upgrades Its LED Screen Used For Public Viewing October 3, 2019 by Super User This is the new direct view LED board facing out to sports fans and local office workers outside the Toronto arena that’s home to both the Maple Leafs hockey team and NBA champion Raptors. The new LG-made screen at a plaza called Maple Leaf Square is 62 feet by 35 feet – 37 per cent …
Korean Tire-maker Adds Mind-Blowing LED Video Wall In HQ Lobby October 1, 2019 by Super User The content for the video wall in the Seoul R&D offices of Nexen, a Korean tire company, is freaking amazing. The lobby of the building has a 30 meter (98.5 feet) wide by 7 meter (23 feet) tall fine pitch LED media wall running a diverse range of custom creative developed by the agency d’strict. …
McKinsey Opening Test Lab Store In Mall Of America September 26, 2019 by Super User The huge management consultant firm McKinsey & Company is opening a retail test lab store tomorrow that’s designed to try out and analyze different technologies touted to transform shopping experiences. The store – called Modern Retail Collective – opens Friday at the vast Mall of America, in suburban Minneapolis. McKinsey says this differs from other …
Chinese LED Maker Attaches Transparent LED To Sliding Glass Shop Doors September 23, 2019 by Super User I’ve seen projection on sliding glass doors, but this transparent mesh LED that’s attached in some way to a pair of glass sliders that serve as an entry to a shop, or something, in China. A sensor triggers the doors to open and content to change as someone approaches and passes through. This is from …
Linq Casino In Las Vegas Switches On Visualized Data Feast Dubbed Dataland September 13, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip John Baggott of ComQi for pointing me at this … The Linq Casino on the Las Vegas Strip added a pile of new displays, custom content and interactive experiences in a refresh unveiled in June. I stayed there back in March (budget-conscious trip) and none of this was in place, but you could …
Clever AR-To-Digital Signage Mash-Up Lets Fans Pose With NFL Pros September 10, 2019 by Super User I was asked recently, for a podcast, where I thought augmented reality fit with digital signage, and I suggested it might often be a better fit to see AR through a big screen, rather than the little ones in our hands, stuck in front of our faces. Here’s a fantastic example of that, introduced at …
Spokane’s Airport Hangs An LED Chandelier September 5, 2019 by Super User This is an LED chandelier in the rotunda of one of the main post-security concourses at Spokane International Airport in eastern Washington state. It’s part of modernization work at the airport, and includes a big welcome LED wall and tiled LCDs at airline counters. The skinny LEDs are from NanoLumens.
It’s Showing Its Age, But This Taiwan Bank’s Lobby Has One Of The Best Digital Signage Installs On The Planet August 27, 2019 by Super User It’s showing its age a bit, but an experiential media installation in Taipei is easily one of the best digital signage projects I’ve seen … anywhere. IAdea’s John Wang ran me over from his office in a tech-heavy office park to a big office tower complex that is home to the financial services firm China …
I Haven’t The Foggiest Idea If This Eye Candy-Filled Airport Activation Works August 25, 2019 by Super User JCDecaux’s Polish operating unit really went to town on the digital eye candy with this pop-up relaxation zone thingie on a concourse at Warsaw’s airport. There is one of those fog screen things, functioning as a projection surface and using sensors to make it interactive. There is also one of those units you look into …
