Portuguese Youth Center Nicely Integrates Ribbon-Style Touch Into Center’s History Wall September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes This an interesting approach to doing an interactive video wall for a scenario in which budget restraints would almost certainly come into play – a touch-enabled stretch display on an otherwise printed wall display that provides a community youth center’s history and milestones. Floor to ceiling video walls are great, but the costs can be …
Storied Kentucky College Basketball Program Using That LED In Glass Dynamic Surface For 2024-25 Season Launch September 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes In what is likely a preview of what may grow increasingly common among deeper-pocketed, alumni-supported programs, the storied University of Kentucky basketball program will introduce its 2024-25 teams next month on one of those multimedia LED sports floors out of Germany. An ASB GlassFloor – the same tech used for the NBA All-Star Skills night …
Vancouver Airport Upgrades Include New Digital Gateway At Screening Checkpoint September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Canada is so freaking big it is easier and faster, based on my living way out on the east coast, to get to Europe than it is to Vancouver, BC, which is way on the west coast. So … I have not been through Vancouver’s airport in ages, and certainly haven’t seen in person some …
NBA’s Miami Heat Incorporates Giant LED Torch Inside Its New Center-Hung Scoreboard At Home Arena September 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a good example of how LED introduces more design flexibility for digital displays in large venues – a giant LED sculpture shaped like a flame that fills the space inside an otherwise floating center-hung scoreboard and replay screen array at the arena where the NBA’s Miami Heat plays. The logo-shaped LED sculpture is …
Chinese Mall Fills Its Atrium Space With Transparent LED And Experiential Creative September 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Maybe it’s a simple case of the people generating posts having a limited command of English, but sooooo many Chinese LED manufacturers who use Linkedin as part of their marketing efforts put up material that can be interesting to see, but offers few or no details on what readers are looking at. This is a …
Red Bull F1 Team Switches On Huge 46-Meter-Wide LED Wall At UK Tech Campus September 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Red Bull F1 racing team has had a LOT of success in recent years (though McLaren really coming on now) and that success and profile has helped bankroll and warrant a huge 2.4mm pitch LED wall at the team’s “Racing Technology Campus” in the UK. The wall is 46.25 meters wide and 2.75 meters …
ITESMEDIA, Teleste Forge Strategic Partnership Aimed At Optimizing Passenger Information For Public Transport Systems September 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Montreal-area software and solutions firm ITESMEDIA has developed an interesting technical partnership with a Finnish company that streamlines information-sharing on public transport systems. The strategic partnership with Teleste is built around a solution called the Teleste Hub, which runs on on ITEStransit software platform. Teleste Hub, says PR, helps transport operators improve the passengers’ …
Hair Styling Tool Brand GHD Uses Lift-and-Learn Solution Powered By Bluefin, Nexmosphere Tech September 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Retail-centric all-in-one display company Bluefin has an interesting case study online about helping a manufacturer get noticed in store, and thinking through the fine details to make the screens effective. Manufacturer GHD makes hair styling tools and competes in a many-many billions market for things that dry, curl or straighten hair, and the company decided …
Transport For London Renews Giant Ad Concessions For Rail And Bus Systems September 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The organization that runs London, England’s vast, multi-modal public transport network – Transport for London (TfL) – is sticking with its existing media partners for the conventional and digital out of home ad concessions on the rail systems and in the streets. Global will continue to manage the rail estate, including advertising sites on the …
Blinged-Out College Sports Locker Rooms With Screens For Each Player Seemingly Becoming A Standard September 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes A few years ago some big US college football teams started adding digital to their blinged-out locker rooms and training facilities, and it is now looking like elements such as digital signs over each player’s locker and stall are something of a standard in new builds or renos. This is the new $14 million facility …
