New KC Airport Includes Digitally-Driven Simulation For First-Time And Anxious Fliers March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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, …
Cannabis Retailer Uses Short-Throw Projection, Giant Tiled Menu Array, To Drive Buyer Experience February 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is one of the more ambitious uses of digital signage technology I’ve seen in the still-emerging cannabis retailing sector – an order counter that uses short-throw projection on a back wall and what appears to be 10 flat panels tiled together as a menu display ribbon up above. Norton, Massachusetts-based CANA Craft Cannabis opened …
PUMA Uses See-Thru LED To Attract, Create Vibe For Singapore Flagship Store February 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a nice example of how mesh LED technology has matured and thinned out to a level that it works very effectively for retail environments – in this case the first and largest PUMA flagship store in Southeast Asia. The design goal for the store on Singapore’s upscale Orchard Road is to “mirror Puma’s …
LED Allows Drapes To Be Drawn Open At Renovated Conference Center February 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Not sure I’d call this digital signage, but it’s a compelling example of how fine-pitch LED screens are being designed in to new or renovated corporate spaces. This is the renovated executive conference center for Edwards Lifesciences, a medical tech company based in the LA area. With construction done, the 126-seat center now sports a …
KC’s New Airport Has Lots Of Digital, Including Real-Time Toilet Availability Screens February 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Kansas City gets a new airport terminal next week, and the airport’s operators have published a lengthy preview video that takes viewers through the $1.5 billion facility. I mention this because like a lot of new or refurbished airport terminals going up these days, there’s a lot of digital being used. As noted a lot …
