New Bangkok Skycraper’s Main Elevator Has OLED-Lined Walls And Ceiling December 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes As someone who got started in digital signage 20 years ago by putting screens in skyscraper elevators – single 12-inch screens that cost $2,500 each – it’s a little freaky to read about an elevator that has its walls and ceilings all lined with 55-inch OLEDs. This is a 360 video – you have to …
LED Feature Walls Give Renovated Space Center Shop Lift-Off December 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is what’s called the World’s Largest Space Shop, a renovated 15,372 sq. ft. retail space at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s east coast. The shop re-opened in June this year, upgraded among many things by big indoor and outdoor LED feature walls and interactive screens, all via RMG Networks. The solution uses …
Sydney’s New Train Ops Center Boasts Largest Control Room LED Wall On Planet November 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes A lot of the larger LED companies – particularly ones from China – have been going after the control room market with its finest pitch LED product, the thinking being large public and private companies might have deeper pockets than retail and other vertical industries. But it looks like a U.S.-based manufacturer has bagged the …
New Spanish Shopping Mall Greets, Entertains With Giant, Curved LED Facade November 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a new shopping mall – Torrecardenas – in Almeria,Spain, on the south coast, about 200 km east of Malaga (if that means anything to you). The mall developers went very big on direct view LED on a curved wall by the main entry point. What I like, based on the videos below, is …
Halifax Bank’s Splashy London Flagship Branch Features LED Halo, Interactive Stations November 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the London flagship branch for the UK-based Halifax Bank – located on Oxford Street across the road from the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. The new branch has a long list of digital signage and interactive applications, all pulled together by the Manchester-area solutions firm Pixel Inspiration., which has been working for years …
Nike Opens Screen-Filled, Frictionless Shopping Flagship In NYC November 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Nike late last week opened the doors to what it calls “House of Innovation 000” – a new six-level flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York that is built around making shopping largely frictionless, and uses a lot of screens. The 68,000 square foot store includes a center-hung, multi-level not-sure-what-I’d-call-it multi-sensory tower structure …
Anti-Racism Center Uses AR, Contactless Payments To Raise Funds Off Sidewalk DOOH Screens November 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting mash-up of augmented reality, sensors, contactless payment tech and digital OOH displays executed by JCDecaux in Norway, for the Norwegian Centre Against Racism In Lillestrøm. The fundraising campaign shows a bunch of white power thugs, on a street furniture screen, approaching people and chanting their nasty bile. That stops and they …
Sony’s Crystal LED Wall Spotted In Real World Retail Install November 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes A reader, doubling as a volunteer operative, sent me pix from Toronto’s ritzy Yorkdale mall of an actual, real installation of that giant, gorgeous Sony “crystal LED” screen that’s shown up at trade shows for the last couple of years. The CLEDIS display – new tech that is micro/mini/something LED versus the normal surface-mounted LEDs …
New Content Program Brings Famed Artworks From MOMA Collection To NYC Rail Platforms November 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes We can only wonder what Vincent van Gogh would have thought, in his more lucid moments, of seeing his work running on screens in New York subway stations. From my perspective, Starry Night beats the hell out of career college and Learn To Speak English posters. The media company OUTFRONT has launched a content program …
Taking Analog Style, And Going Digital With It November 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a digitized take on those analog flip-flap, flip-disc boards, like the ones coming out of Philadelphia profiled yesterday. The New Zealand wing of the Flight Centre travel agency chain, if it is like Flight Centres I’ve seen elsewhere, has for many, many years had signs in windows and inside that list airfare costs for …
