Taipei’s Planned Twin Towers Are Ground-To-Roof LED Media Facades August 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes A few months ago, a New York journalist rang me up, asking about that LED advertising barge that had started running along the Hudson and East Rivers as a floating billboard. I told the guy I was not surprised many New Yorkers hated the thing, but said that was potentially just the start of what …
E-paper Screens Used As Patient Room Digital Signage In Florida Hospital August 14, 2019 by Dave Haynes Using screens as digital meeting room signs has turned into a big business, with dozens of companies offering a smarter way to designate whether a meeting space is occupied or booked, and by whom. There’s another very different scenario where digital signs make a lot of sense outside of rooms, and that’s in medical centers. …
Giant Wraparound LED Upgrades Messaging At Sydney’s Convention Center August 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is well done – a wrap-around LED display board that addresses multiple needs at a convention center in Sydney, Australia. The new LED display at the International Convention Centre Sydney is 47.5 sq. meters – 19m wide by 2.5m tall, and sitting above some existing print signage. The screen in the ICC Sydney foyer …
Cruise Line’s Mega-Ship Includes Dining Hall With Experiential LED Walls August 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Spectrum of the Seas, a new mega-cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International, uses big direct view LED screens to great effect in its main dining room. The three level dining area can feed more than 1,800 people at once. Passengers walk in from two decks, via a 16-meter-long LED corridor. For …
Empire State Building Opens Screen-Filled Museum Designed To Entertain, Educate Observatory Line-ups August 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Empire State Building in New York has opened a 10,000 square foot museum in the 2nd floor of the building as a mechanism to reduce perceptions of long waiting lines to get to the observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors. The museum has a pile of technology in it, most notably a gallery with 72 …
Iconic Philly Department Store Building Adds Gorgeous LED Digital Entry Canopy July 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. Now renovated, revitalized, and …
Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe July 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café.” It will have nitro-infused cold brew coffee, americanos, lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, cortados, macchiatos and all …
Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal July 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays …
Abu Dhabi Court Uses Screens To Make Proceedings Almost Totally Digital July 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes This probably doesn’t fall into the digital signage bucket, and is much more of an AV job, but it is an interesting application of screens in a workplace. The Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM) in guess where is entirely digital – with witnesses, lawyers and plaintiffs able to participate in courtroom proceedings from anywhere, …
Quebec’s Lottery Corp Rolling Out Menuboard-Style Screens In Walmart Kiosks July 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Loto-Quebec was an early adopter for digital signage, putting screens in retail sites well more than a decade ago. Much of what the lotteries concern does is a basic set-up in convenience stores, but like other lottery companies they try to create a larger, special purpose presence in shopping malls and heavy foot traffic retail …
