Projects: 280 Foot Wide LED Wall Lights Up In World Trade Center’s New Mall August 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes The retail component of the new World Trade Center in New York finally, formally, opens next week, and the 16 acre site will include some 5,000 square feet of LED. The signature installation is a 280-foot wide 4mm pixel pitch LED wall running along a concourse, driven by 12 sync’d HD outputs from players that …
Orlando Airport Investing Big On Passenger-Facing Digital Signage August 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes Orlando International Airport continues to invest heavily in digital displays to improve the look and experience. The Orlando Sentinel has a story up about a $146 million makeover underway, and targeted to be complete by late next year, that will include a band of tiled displays behind the ticket counters at the departures level. The …
Projects: Have A Look At The Largest Outdoor LED Wall in South China August 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Massive LED billboards are by no means found only, these days, in world capitals and insane places like Las Vegas. This is a an 1,855 square metre LED wrapped around a building in the south China city of Shantou, up the coastline from Hong Kong (if that helps). Touted as the largest outdoor LED in south …
Projects: Charlotte Pizza Joint Uses Interactive To Engage Waiting Customers July 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting take on using digital signage to deal with lengthy dwell times in a fast casual restaurant setting: an interactive display patrons can monkey with while their custom pizza bakes in the nearby oven. When Zablong Pizza opened in Charlotte, NC earlier this year, the operators wanted an interactive experience from the time people walked in. So …
Projects: Turning Stone Casino Makes Digital Part Of Guest Experience July 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m outside of Syracuse, NY for part of this week, hanging out at Seneca Data’s annual Partner Connect conference, held at a casino resort. First time at the conference, which is really well packaged and executed – something that probably makes sense because the Syracuse-based pro computing solutions company is populated by persnickety engineers and …
Board The Queen Mary For A Digital Signage Tour, Aug. 10th July 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo is planning an informal tour and mixer on the Queen Mary cruise liner, which has been a part of the Long Beach, CA waterfront for many years as a working museum hotel and restaurant. The August 10th event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on the ship. At rush hour, it’s about a three …
Projects: Giant Interactive Wall Turns On At Smithsonian’s Flight Hall July 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is a massive new interactive video wall at the newly renovated Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It’s a 16- by 12-foot interactive media wall that prompts visitors to explore, collect, and save their favourite objects from the museum’s collection, using the museum mobile app. The project was put together …
Projects: True Religion Goes Digital On Carnaby Street July 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes The US denim jeans brand True Religion has opened a new small footprint, digital-heavy store concept on London’s Carnaby Street. The 2,500 sq ft shop, which opened in June, has a concept focused around a denim bar at the front of the shop, and uses digital screens that will showcase how the products are made, an interactive …
Projects: 80 Million Pixels Light Up At Dubai’s New City Walk Market July 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital …
Projects: Digital Signs Sync’d With Audio, Lighting Ease Sick Kids’ Fears July 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes The James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, SC is using a combination of digital signage players and screens, synced with audio and mood lighting, to run a sensory-driven solution in treatment rooms that are designed to defuse the anxiety of the kids and ease the worries of their families. “In the …
