Consulting Firm 1,100+ Sq. Ft. Of Fine Pitch LED In Its New AZ Training Center March 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is increasingly common to see keynotes, panels and business presentations on stages that use big digital visuals as the backdrop, but the business consulting company Cardone Ventures has taken what’s usually an event-specific set-up and made it permanent at its new training center in Scottsdale, AZ. The company wanted a tech solution for live …
Giant Crystal-Inspired Venue Adds To Over-The-Top Designs Set For Men’s World Cup In Saudi Arabia March 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes Another over-the-top, digital-heavy supports stadium is in the works for Saudi Arabia – a 46,000 seater in southwest Riyadh that will host some group stage and knock-out round games for the 2034 men’s World Cup. This one, like some others, is backed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, and named after a Saudi real estate development …
Sphere’s Owners Looking At Quarter-Sized Venues To Spur Global Expansion March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Guy Campos and AV Magazine, which keeps a close eye on the Las Vegas Sphere’s business fortunes and plans … The company behind the giant LED-clad Sphere attraction in Las Vegas said in a quarterly earnings call with investment analysts this week that it is actively working on a franchise-like model that …
New London Office Complex Includes Custom LED Arches On Protected, Georgian-era Facade February 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes Hat tip invidis for noting this … A new high-rise office development in London’s financial district looks like a lot of sleek, modern skyscraper developments from the outside, but the complex – which opened in 2024 – incorporates a listed (protected) building in its footprint, and has a central square area that mashes up custom …
Tampa’s Airport Has Giant LED FIDS Display At Its Cell Phone Waiting Lot February 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes The guy who has the airports portfolio for Atlanta LED display manufacturer Nanolumens never seems to stop traveling, and part of his schtick on Linkedin is to take photos or quick videos showing displays in situ in these environments – most or all of it presumably being product from his company. Most of the signs …
Aussie Online Beauty Retailer Adds First Physical Store With 100+ Screens In Small Footprint Space February 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Australian retailer Adore Beauty, which sells guess what, is another story about a company that starts online and eventually decides to add physical locations, and in this case, purpose-built stores dominated by screens.Adore Beauty recently opened its first physical store in suburban Melbourne, using an omni-channel management software platform that does online, mobile and …
Amazon Opens Screen-Filled Bricks And Mortar “Parapharmacy” Store In Milan February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Online shopping and fulfillment giant Amazon has opened its first bricks and mortar store in Italy – a health and beauty store in Milan’s city centre filled with screens. The Amazon Parafarmacia Beauty store opened Feb. 12th, featuring a “curated” selection of beauty and personal care products from brands including Eucerin, La Roche-Posay, Vichy, Avène, …
Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
Here’s The Winner List For 2025 Global Digital Signage Awards February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes I don’t have an overly useful file that lists all the winners from the global Digital Signage Awards from, wow, a couple of weeks back in Barcelona, so I will point you instead at a set of slides from the awards site that shows the various winners with images of the projects. Sixteen:Nine helps guide …
Future Displays: The Pixel Whisperers At Peerless-AV Use Precision Engineering To Makes Curved LED Walls Beautiful January 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a digest summary of a profile story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … Peerless-AV was one of six companies that kindly stepped up to sponsor the report – the sponsor dollars covering off a lot of …