Outdoor Mesh LEDs Now Bright Enough For Daytime Applications February 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Semi-transparent mesh LEDs that have mainly been used in windows or inside buildings are now a combination of bright enough and light enough to retrofit buildings and use as 24/7 advertising and marketing machines. Manufacturers used to tell me mesh LEDs were great for nighttime, but didn’t necessarily have the lighting power to overcome direct …
Projection-Mapped Illuminarium In Atlanta Sweats Asset By Adding Immersive Bar To Experiences February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Temporary and permanent indoor projection-mapping experiences are starting to grown common in big cities – large, open spaces like old loading docks and storage rooms in which the walls and floors are painted in edge-blended motion and still graphics. The main business model for these spaces is as large-scale art spaces that people can walk …
Subtle Mini Projection On Tabletop Fixture Helps Market Lab-Grown Diamonds February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of what gets attention these days in digital signage and pro AV has to do with scale – the biggest this or that. Here’s something quite effective in retail at small, almost miniature scale. It’s a tabletop projection display by Dallas-based Glass Media for the lab-grown diamond brand Clear Origin. I don’t have …
Digital Displays Evolving From Trade Show Add-Ons To Main Components In Stands February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes It was about four or five years ago when rental LED displays came up enough in visual quality and durability and down enough in price to make them feasible as backdrops, headers and feature walls in trade show exhibits. Back then, you’d see them here and there – and mostly as add-ons, save the biggest …
New Elevator Test Skyscraper In Atlanta Clad With 8-Storey Mesh LED February 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes The German elevator company TK Elevator (old name was ThyssenKrupp) has opened a new North American headquarters and test facility in NW Atlanta that features a 420-foot test tower and an eight-floor-tall semi-transparent mesh LED. The mesh LED is being touted as the largest of its type on a building in the U.S., and it …
Wing Stop Rolls Out Smart Digital Menu Displays Across Growing UK Footprint February 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes It now seems odd to see a QSR chain that is NOT using digital menu boards and other displays in their stores and in drive-thrus, but a deployment of screens across the UK estate of a wings and fries chain is interesting on a couple of counts. Wingstop UK (managed by Lemon Pepper Holdings ltd) …
Dubai Outdoor Shopping Complex Upgrades 40 Display Network February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s Dubai, where just about everything done is over the top and budget restraint is an abstract concept, but nonetheless this is an interesting look at how large format digital signage can dominate an outdoor retail development. The development is call The Beach and is in the lux Jumeirah Beach area of Dubai, along the …
Locating Graves Made Easy By Putting Digital Wayfinding Kiosks In A Norwegian Cemetery February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Peter Ødemark for pointing me to this … There will be people who will utter the old “Now I’ve seen everything” phrase when they read about a Norwegian cemetery using interactive digital wayfinding screens, but I think it is clever way to address a tangible and very familiar problem. A Norwegian firm located …
Beijing Opening Ceremonies Clearly Used A Lot Of LED, But Nothing Clear About The Supplier! February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The giant display that covered the full floor of the stadium hosting the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics was definitely LED technology, but what’s not at all definite – it seems – is the supplier of all those LED tiles. In various reports and social media posts from companies, the 10,000-plus square meters of …
Is The Beijing Bird’s Nest Floor One Big LED Display? February 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I watched a little of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony this morning as Nespresso very slowly re-animated me, and thought to myself, “That’s some serious projection-mapping going on there.” But looking online at some of the images coming out of the Bird’s Nest stadium, I am now thinking the whole stadium floor and the ramp …
