Color Blocks Frenetically Appear In This Public Generative Art Piece In Seoul August 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different take from the shape-shifting, oozing generative art for video walls that Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol pioneered and influenced in countless other LED video wall projects. Called Host and Ghost, the piece is running on the Donuimun Museum Village Media Facade in Seoul this summer – the latest in a rotation of …
Chick-fil-A Building New Store With Four Drive-Thru Lanes And Walk-Up Location With No Digital Menu Displays July 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes Drive-thru has been a huge part of the business for many to most QSR operators in North America, and pandemic-driven restrictions made that method of taking and fulfilling fast food orders essential – leading to something of a boom in demand for outdoor-rated pre-sell and menu displays, as well as the underlying technology. Now we’re …
Sports Firm On AG Uses Display Technology To Adjust To Changing Workplace Needs July 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a solid example of a company fully taking on display and related technology to create a working environment that’s in line with shifting trends and needs. Sports equipment designer and developer On AG recently renovated its Zurich, Switzerland headquarter digs and layered in a pile of new technology to make the space work better and …
Novartis Global HQ Integrates Solar Panels To Drive Its Own Media Facade On New Pavilion July 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Via German language content partner invidis (Photo: Laurids Jensen) … There is much to like and admire about this new pavilion on the Basel, Switzerland global HQ campus of the pharmaceutical company Novartis. It plays out purpose-designed digital art on its surface at night, on LEDs embedded and powered by the solar collectors that are …
Another Robotic LED DOOH Display Surfaces – Shape-Shifting In Seoul July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A vendor has passed along a link to a video showing its robotic LED DOOH billboard operating in Seoul, with the assertion that the unit has been mechanically shape-shifting without incident for more than a year. The manufacturer PJ Link was responding to a recent Linkedin repost I did about a kinetic display being used …
Vast LED Screen Inside Las Vegas Sphere Supported By Almost 2,000 Loudspeakers July 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The great majority of media attention about that giant LED ball that’s been lit up in Las Vegas has been about the outside visuals, but there will also be a huge 160,000 sq. ft. screen inside the 20,000 seat event venue, backed by what’s being called immersive sound. The Sphere, as it is called, will …
Florida Organic Grocer Fills New Store With LCD Ribbon Displays July 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting application of natively-manufactured LCDs – as opposed to cutting and re-manufacturing 16:9 screens – as ribbon displays in a small-ish organic grocery in Naples, Florida. The Food and Thought 2 store has a series of single and two-sided displays around the store, from larger-format versions suspended from the ceiling to shelf-edge …
Brussels Airport Transitions FIDS Video Walls From LCD To Fine Pitch LED July 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes It was always just going to be a matter of time when fine pitch LED costs would reduce to a point that they would fully supplant LCD-based video walls, and we appear to be there even with pedestrian use-cases like FIDS displays at airports. The airport in Brussels, Belgium has flight information (FIDS) videowalls that …
Philly’s Airport Rolling Out TSA Wait Time Screens Across Terminals July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Flashy, big dollar video walls and experiential installations at renovated airports tend to get the attention of industry writers and observers, and that makes sense, but there is a whole subset of very pedestrian – even boring – deployments that are just as important to making passenger experiences enjoyable. Like TSA screening status boards at …
Virtual Selfie Display For Football Giant PSG Drives Fan Engagement, Social Sharing July 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The German interactive software firm Sensape has been marketing an AR-driven virtual selfies application for a while now, including this one with Bayern Munich, but has pushed out PR that provides some interesting insights on what happens around in-store interactive screens. It draws traffic, boosts social sharing and causes a big bump in e-mail subscriptions …
