It’s Now Clear Big Digital Displays Are Fundamental To How Las Vegas Creates Wow Factor June 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes In late and up early in Las Vegas, as I poke around and get myself sorted for being at InfoComm this week. The first thing I learned in coming here is that after 28 months of not doing it, I don’t miss the process/rigmarole of commercial air travel. At all. The second thing I have …
Transparent OLEDs Tiled To Create Dynamic Window In Korean Retail Bakery June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has been floating a variety of possible use-cases for its transparent OLED displays – with dynamic messaging on things like subway car windows and sliding glass entry doors to stores. Now it is touting how a retail bakery in South Korea has tiled a set of the see-through displays to create a window looking …
Video Walls As Patchwork Content Quilts Are A Bad Idea … June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes I haven’t a clue what’s going on with the LCD video wall in this Buffalo Wild Wings franchise in Portland, Maine, and neither does one of the guys who founded the fast casual restaurant chain. Scott Lowery, who let’s assume cashed out because his Linkedin profile describes him as a ubiquitous snow skier, popped into …
Delta’s Airy, LED-Filled New Terminal C At NYC’s LaGuardia Finally Opens Saturday June 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big investment in money and years to make New York’s LaGuardia Airport into a facility appropriate for one of the world’s great cities is reaching a conclusion after six years of construction, with word this week that the $4 billion Terminal C will open for travellers on Saturday. The new consolidated Delta terminal – …
So The Section In The Manual About Micro-Adjustments … Maybe Read It? May 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes Most of the failed digital signage efforts I come across, or have sent my way, involve computing hardware or programming software that goes bad. But here’s a case of a video wall project in which the player, software and creative are all fine, but the installation or service job was a disaster. Christopher Gillespie of …
Tech Firm’s NYC Offices Use LED Video Walls To Energize Elevator Wait Lobbies May 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Readers may have noticed how the odd post about a corporate project goes up … and then disappears – in pretty much every case because the vendor didn’t secure any or all of the permissions needed to use the client name and images in press material. I had one of those earlier in the week. …
Auto Museum Fires Up Big Curved LEDs To Greet, Inform Visitors May 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is the brand new Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, which is using a lot of LED and a little LCD to welcome, guide, entertain and inform visitors who come to see everything from vintage station wagons to retired race cars. The 65,000 sq. ft. facility northwest of Atlanta has a series of LG …
London’s New Elizabeth Line Adds 300+ New Screens To City’s Rail System May 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Services started running this morning on the Elizabeth Line, a new railway service running through central London. The new line, years in development, includes nine brand new stations added to the London Underground map. As you might expect, starting from scratch enabled Transport For London to design in a lot of digital to inform, guide …
LaGuardia Does A Different Take On Flight Status Displays For Travelers May 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Paul Fleuranges sent me a quick note and photos from the mercifully-renovated Terminal B of New York’s LaGuardia Airport – his first time in that or any airport since COVID hit. The refresh of an airport that would be generously described as a hell-pit included a big re-think and upgrade of the digital displays at …
Beauty Brand’s Uses Planetary Inspiration For Digital Around Terrific Madrid Flagship May 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does super-nice work, and one of the things I particularly like about the company is the amount of detail it puts into explaining the creative thinking and outputs for its higher profile projects. The company has a deeply detailed, very visual page up online explaining what was done, how …
