Museum Down Under Uses In-Glass LED To Mark, Promote Sharks Exhibit November 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a nice application of in-glass LED, marking and promoting a short-term exhibition about Sharks at the Australian Museum in Sydney. The instal was put together by Aussie solutions provider Lymlive, and was lit up in September. Lymlive installed a 9 meter wide by 3 meter tall (roughly 30′ by 10′ for the metric-impaired) …
London Rail Company Testing Boring But Useful Passenger Info Screens November 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Last week at Digital Signage Experience in Las Vegas, I had a number of conversations about what’s happening in the industry and use-cases that I found interesting. What I tended to say I was attracted to thing applications a lot of people would regard as boring. Giant LED displays, super-skinny OLEDs and interactive jobs are …
Qatar Adds Connected E-Paper Transit Displays To Help Guide World Cup Visitors November 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Given that the Qatari government has spent about $220 billion on infrastructure for the World Cup tournament now underway, the cost of digitizing bus stops on Qatar’s mass transport system with e-paper displays would have been a rounding error. London, UK-based Papercast won the tendered bid to equip stops with e-paper displays that provide real-time …
San Francisco Adds Three New DOOH Display-Filled Subway Stations November 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the things that’s always surprising when I pass through the Bay Area is how awful the subway system is, given how it is a world capital of technology. But that is starting to change. The central transit terminal is a big, tech-filled wonder that feels like a nice airport, and now the city …
Here’s The “Dizzie” Awards List From DSE 2022 November 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Back at my desk now after a delayed-filled return trip from Las Vegas and Digital Signage Experience, which at the end of the second day announced the winners of its 2022 DIZZIE awards for project and creative excellence. The 2022 DIZZIE Award Winners: Corporate Environments Verizon at The Hub on Causeway Presented to: NBBJ | …
Newark’s New Digitally-Rich Terminal A Gets Previewed November 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes Ribbons have been cut and the press and other interested parties have now had a look at the new 33-gate Terminal A at Newark International Airport – the first new terminal at Newark in almost 50 years. The terminal won’t be ready for passengers for a few more weeks, but all the visual stuff is …
Office Lobby Uses Projection-Mapping For Directory And Info Screen November 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a clever, budget-friendly variation on big video walls in office lobbies – a projection-mapped feature that functions as a building directory and information screen. It’s in an office block in Jersey City, across from Manhattan, and uses a projection system to light up a wall that’s JUST off a lobby filled with ambient …
Qatar’s Expanded Airport Has 1.2 Kilometers Of LED Ribbon In Flashy New Terminal November 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes Qatar’s main airport has been expanded just ahead of the World Cup, with a mind-blowing 1.2 kms of fine pitch LED ribbon around a new retail-focused terminal space. The Hamad International Airport (HIA) Expansion adds more than 90 brands in the shopping area, a premium art collection, and a 10,000 sq m indoor tropical garden …
NJ Medical Center Makes Digital Big Part Of Its Hospital Rooms Of The Future November 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes Health care seems like a particularly attractive and underdeveloped vertical market for digital signage and pro AV products – throttled perhaps by long project timelines, layers of bureaucracy and a pandemic that has kept services providers of all sizes tied up for the last almost three years. But it’s an environment that would benefit greatly …
75-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Media Tower Dominates Seoul Airport Terminal November 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes My friends at German language content partner Invidis were evidently in South Korea recently, and noted how metro Seoul’s sprawling international airport has a very impressive 75-foot tall LED media tower in the terminal, fronting what seems to mimic an old palace wall. “To our surprise, we discovered the ‘Super-Large LED Media Tower’ at Seoul …
