NC State’s Flashy Library Refreshes Video Walls With Sony CLEDs October 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes North Carolina State was a pretty early adopter of big video walls, putting them in when its James B. Hunt Jr. Library first went up about 10 years ago. That tech – including a big Christie MicroTiles wall (those little rear-projection blocks) – was agin out, and the university has started to replace them with …
Belgian Firm Uses Big LED To Help Customers Build And Visualize Their Dream Bathrooms October 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen display technology used to help consumers do everything from configure their ideal cars in digital showrooms to accessorizing outfits on interactive screens in fashion retail dressing rooms, but I don’t think I’ve seen a set-up built with the intent of helping homeowners come up with a visualize their dream bathrooms. The Belgian firm …
Chilean Bakery Uses Digital Split-Flap Displays For Full Five-Screen Menu Board October 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes Most of the flip-disc and split-flap installations I’ve seen – old-school mechanical or digital – have tended to be single screens that are used more for the visual novelty than as a functional communications tool – which was the main use for the original spinning and chattering status board displays at airports and rail stations. …
Newark’s New-ish Terminal Borrows LED Surprise From Comcast Tower October 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the brilliant aspects, going back some 15 years, of the Comcast Tower LED lobby experience in Philly was and is how the big video wall takes on the appearance of the lobby’s non-digital wall finish – and then stuff starts appearing. Newark and Philly are pretty close in proximity, so the Comcast lobby …
NYC Walkabout : The Tiffany Virtual Windows Are Lovely, But Reflection Is An Issue October 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes The front end of this week was spent in New York, moderating a DSF panel and also doing a few things like catching some of the DPAA conference and getting a peek inside a very ambitious new tech-focused attraction that hopes to open next month (more on that once it’s OK to mention). I also …
US Grocer Hy-Vee To Use Samsung’s VXT And Retail Ads Solution Across 10,000+ Screens October 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Samsung has announced a big commercial win for its increasingly integrated digital signage solution, providing smart displays, CMS software AND in-store ad sales and placement for a roll-out of more than 10,000 screens in the US grocer chain Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee will use VXT CMS to manage a network of screens installed in aisles, deli, meat …
Video: Profile Of Saco, The Montreal Company Behind The LED-Filled Las Vegas Sphere October 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes The suppliers behind some of the highest profile digital display projects often don’t get much marketing mileage out of their closed deals, because the client doesn’t allow or greatly restricts PR about te job. But the company behind the big new Sphere in Las Vegas seems more relaxed about it – with several suppliers this …
Virtual Models Prowl Projected Catwalk In Dutch Fashion Show October 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes This isn’t really digital signage, but an interesting application of technologies used for signage – a fashion show that uses a variation of the Pepper’s Ghost illusion to create a virtual runway/catwalk at a Dutch fashion show. A start-up called Future Front Row developed the show for Amsterdam Fashion Week. Pepper’s Ghost is an illusion …
420 Of Those Madly-Spinning LED Sticks Create Big Visuals In Las Vegas Sphere Atrium October 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’ve never been able to work up the level of trade show attendee enthusiasm I see for those madly-spinning LED light sticks, mainly because moving parts inevitably fail and conventional display products can often do a better job for many of the suggested use cases. But there are times when I think it can work, …
A Close Look At Transparent LED Foil In Retail, And A Broader Look At Digital In London’s Revitalized Battersea Development October 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the work stops I wanted to make while in London recently was the revitalized and re-imagined Battersea Power Station, a huge decommissioned structure along the Thames and just up-river from the central part of the city. It is now a multi-purpose development – with the turbine hall turned into retail and food, and …
