Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Super User I’ve not seen a lot of real-world retail uses for those big transparent LCD shower stall-like displays marketed as holograms, but here’s an interesting pop-up example of one used during the Christmas season in the T3 terminal of Toronto’s main airport. Retail operator Paradies Lagardère – which has a big footprint in airports, hotels and …
Double-Curved LED Store Facade, Winding LED Ribbons Light Up Duty-Free At Abu Dhabi’s Expanded Airport January 4, 2024 by Super User This is a nice project involving the duty-free operator at Abu Dhabi’s main airport – with the main highlights a clever “double-curved” digital facade and big curving LED ribbon inside the store. The entry to the store has a half-circle tight-pitch LED that is curved both vertically and horizontally – like part of a sphere, …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Super User I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
Digital Signage-Driven Sook Pop-Up Stores Cease Operations January 2, 2024 by Super User Well this makes me sad … the UK start-up that was using digital signage technology as the core visual marketing feature of a set of short-term rental pop-up stores has ceased operations. The company, called Sook, had what I thought was the clever idea of establishing small, ready-to-use retail stores on UK high streets that …
New Saudi Gov’t Back Giga Project Involves E-Sports Arena With Massive 3,600 Sq. Meter Chandelier-Like LED Screen December 21, 2023 by Super User Given the extraordinary cost and the need in much of the world to clear planning hurdles and local objects about light pollution and energy usage, it’s widely thought the next variation on the Las Vegas Sphere might rise up in a money-is-no-object place like Dubai or Saudi Arabia. And now there is word of a …
Interesting Cutaway View Of Sphere Interior … December 20, 2023 by Super User Came across this online – an interesting cutaway view of the Sphere in Vegas, showing the exoskeleton and how the seating and common areas are set up. There have been countless external photos, as well as shots of the U2 concert and the nature film, but not many of the common areas inside. There’s a …
NYC’s 5th Ave Snowflake Gets Big Digital Upgrade From i5LED December 19, 2023 by Super User Most of the LED display project news I see out of New York City involves either big outdoor displays in Times Square or big indoor video walls in flagship retail, but here’s a very different project supplied, in part, by an LED display firm – a giant Christmas snowflake suspended over Fifth Avenue. The Fifth …
KC’s Dimensional Innovations Helps Drive Visual Experience For Ted Lasso-Filled Thundergong Charity Concert December 19, 2023 by Super User This isn’t digital signage, but some great set design and supporting creative done by a company that is well known and very active in digital signage and creative technology jobs – Dimensional Innovations. If you’ve been on YouTube and come across videos of a charity concert involving some of the cast of Ted Lasso, that …
Office Tower Elevator’s Controls Tied To Digital Mirrors To Show Floor Location December 18, 2023 by Super User A UK company called iFaceMirror has been putting LCD-backed digital mirrors in the interiors of elevator (lift) cars for a bunch of years, with their purpose heavily focused on advertising and branding for the venue or the businesses in that office tower, hotel or shopping space. So I was intrigued by this video (below) that …
1,100 Custom LED Light Strips Drive Experiential Visuals At Bangalore’s Main Airport December 18, 2023 by Super User Wide LED walls over the entry to the big security screening areas of new or modernized airport terminals are almost becoming something of a standard – with great examples from Singapore to Newark, NJ – but I haven’t seen one like this variation in Bangalore, India. It involves almost 1,100 custom LED light strips, using …
