Projects: The World’s Biggest (Virtual) Fish Tank June 3, 2013 by Super User I am still trying to wrap my head around the most popular show on US cable being about guys who make duck calls, and now I have to also deal with the notion of a massive and expensive Times Square media spectacular for a show about (I assume) people in the fish tank business. …
Projects: NC State’s Display-Filled Research Library Of The Future June 3, 2013 by Super User North Carolina State University’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, NC is a new purpose-built environment designed to allow students and faculty to interact with top-of-the-line digital technology that furthers their research and education. The school has a big online gaming program and the library has a series of massive video walls that use Christie’s …
Projects: Clorox Promotion Pushes Consumer Photos To LED Board May 29, 2013 by Super User Clorox recently promoted its new Smart Tube Technology which, I guess, cleans stuff, using a mobile to big-ass digital billboard in Toronto’s big Yonge and Dundas Square are, which is kinda sorta like Times Square. Put together by Titan Outdoor and using Capital Networks’ Audience software – which already drives a pile of the screens …
Projects: Giant MicroTiles Wall Launches Kazakh Rail Line May 28, 2013 by Super User The details are a little fuzzy on what this was for, but the execution is pretty impressive. This is an abstract cluster of some 100 Christie MicroTiles used for a presentation launching (I think) a rail line in Kazakhstan. The presentation located factories in different parts of that country, and an iPad was used to …
Projects: ABSA’s Bank Of The Future In Suburban Johannesburg May 14, 2013 by Super User A little pre-dinner wander around the Clearwater shopping mall in Johannesburg Monday (here on a gig) walked me up to a bank of the future digital install that was both impressive and dumb. I had no idea it was there. First, the impressive … The ABSA bank (part of the Barclay’s group) has installed a …
Projects: Franklin Institute’s New Ticketing Boards May 2, 2013 by Super User Here’s the new ticketing display system at The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia Science Museum. There are five 55-inch displays at the ticketing entrance, showing ticket prices, current or upcoming exhibits, show and tour group times, and video trailers. The museum uses Scala and has set its scheduling to shuffle ticket packages for museum …
Projects: Skier Info At Chamonix Mont Blanc May 2, 2013 by Super User The Swiss software company Navori has its QL platform the communications for Compagnie du Mont Blanc, which runs the French Chamonix Mont Blanc area. There are 16 outdoor and indoor screens, some as high up as 10,000 feet and operating at waaay below zero, running snow conditions, wayfinding, cable lift information, weather information and alerts. …
Projects: Boise State Hangs Giant NanoLumens Panel In Arts Center April 25, 2013 by Super User The Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University a very big digital display in its lobby to communicate with people before, during and after shows, and settled on a six-feet-tall by eleven-feet-wide NanoLumens 4mm LED skinny and light enough to hand on the wall like a tapestry. The NanoSlim display’s …
Projects: Radford University’s Finance Lab April 22, 2013 by Super User Here’s another example of a trading room simulation put together for a university by Rise Display. Virginia-based Radford University’s finance lab features two interactive touch screens that show indices, currencies, commodities, and bonds, along with tables and charts and financial news updates. Three passive digital displays featuring financial charts, tables, and Reuters news. The room …
Projects: Digital Fixtures In Strasbourg’s Galeries Lafayette April 16, 2013 by Super User The press release is in French, which I am proficient at when it comes to ordering beer, but not much else. But what I could tell is that French integrator Eikeo is working with the Galeries Lafayette store in Strasbourg, France to get large vertical displays around the place. Two things: 1 – The sleek black …
