London’s Transport Authority Expanding LED-based Countdown Signs; Testing Interactive And E-Paper Signs March 7, 2023 by Super User The integrated mass transport authority for the UK’s capital city area – Transport For London (TfL) – is adding 300 more of its simple LED countdown displays to routes this year, and also started trials of e-paper displays on bus stop poles and interactive full color displays inside bus shelters on one route. Beginning this …
16 Sq. Meter MicroLED Wall Greets Shoppers At Belgian Mall March 6, 2023 by Super User I’ve not seen or read a lot of PR about actual deployments of super-premium microLED products like Samsung’s The Wall, but there are indeed end-customers out there, including this shopping mall near Antwerp, Belgium. It’s at the Waasland Shopping Center and is measured at 16 square meters. It appears to be fixed along a corridor, …
Now There’s An Acronym For Something That Isn’t Really A Thing: FP3D Billboards March 6, 2023 by Super User Now media companies are getting into the flawed habit of calling their advertising displays something they’re not. Abu Dhabi-based BackLite Media sent me PR about its winning the concession to deploy new digital billboards at a flashy new waterfront destination in the city state – trumpeting how the “new range includes a curved screen, which …
Magic Mirror At Sydney Mall Transforms Shoppers Into Human Bouquets March 2, 2023 by Super User My gut tells me interactive, gesture-based displays in public spaces only tend to engage little kids and extrovert adults, but perhaps compelling creative and the right strategy get more people involved. Consider this “activation” done last year for a shopping mall in the north end of Sydney, Australia. The media production shop Vandal was engaged …
New KC Airport Includes Digitally-Driven Simulation For First-Time And Anxious Fliers March 1, 2023 by Super User The brand-new terminal at Kansas City International Airport has, like most new and reno’d airports, a lot of digital display deployed around its sprawling footprint, including some 300 feet of fine pitch Nanolumens LED used to designate and locate airline check-in. But there’s also a super-interesting component that uses digital displays as part of an …
Fine Pitch LED Walls Create Virtual Aquarium At IT Giant’s NYC Offices March 1, 2023 by Super User Aquariums have been used as office lobby decor for decades, but LED video wall technology has now matured and lowered in cost to a point that big virtual fish tanks can maybe go in instead – likely saving on a lot of maintenance and food for the fishies. The IT firm World Wide Technology has …
IT Giant Insight Uses LG’s Big Stretch LCDs For Business Communications At New Phoenix HQ February 28, 2023 by Super User Here’s an interesting and mostly different approach to messaging for staff and guests on a corporate campus – a set of 88-inch stretch LCDs set in portrait mode along three different hallways in the Phoenix-area headquarters of the IT company Insight Enterprises. Officially named Insight Way, the company’s new Gensler-designed headquarters is a 200,000-square-foot facility …
Skinny Bar-Type LCDs Help Guests Navigate New Downtown LA Destination February 27, 2023 by Super User Wayfinding and directory digital totems are pretty common in outdoor retail, leisure and transport destinations, and almost all of them look kinda sorta the same – except for these new ones deployed around a new dining destination in LA. Instead of high-bright 55-inch displays in portrait mode, these ones are skinny 37-inch stretch displays, with …
Idaho Municipality Adopts Digital Signage To Efficiently Promote Local Events, Services February 24, 2023 by Super User Vertical markets that offer a lot of scale are understandably attractive to vendors in the digital signage industry, so it is logical that a lot of companies have spent years chasing business with retailers and fast food operators – because they both tend to have a lot of locations, and therefore might use a lot …
PPDS Studios Opening Up In EU, UK And US To Support Sellers, Inspire End-Users February 24, 2023 by Super User The company marketing Philips digital signage and related pro AV solutions has started building and opening a series of showroom/demo/meeting spaces across Europe and North America under the handle PPDS Studios. Intended to support partners like system integrators, consultants, distributors, AV/IT designers/architects), as well as end customers, PPDS Studios have already opened in Amsterdam, Madrid, …
