More than 200 Displays Guide, Inform Rail Passengers At New Grand Central Madison In NYC May 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes A lot of mass transport infrastructure in the New York area has seen serious, much-needed upgrades in the last few years, and the latest is a new part of the Grand Central rail station that finally gives access to the Long Island rail system from the east side of Manhattan. For decades, if you were …
Watch This Video On How An Apparel Brand Uses Dynamic LED Lighting To Drive Experience May 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes This video (below) does a nice job showing how simple LED lighting strips can add a lot of visual interest to businesses like retail. It is used by Stradivarius, a retail chain that sells women’s apparel (not priceless, centuries-old violins). It’s a Spanish company, part of a larger group that also owns Zara. The design studio …
Text Messages Drive Experiential Wish Fountain At San Diego Office Building April 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes In the days before fine pitch LED video walls, property developers often put fountains into the ground floor lobbies of office towers as an amenity and attraction. Here’s a very different kind of fountain – made with machined wood and LED lighting – to deliver an experience at a San Diego office building. Developed by …
AUO Display Plus Debuts Screen-Integrated Meeting Pods For Airports April 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes If you travel a lot, you have likely walked along airport concourses that have little pods that can be rented/used for power naps or privacy for breastfeeding or pumping, and now the Taiwan manufacturer AUO Display Plus has developed an office pod that allows business travellers to do a meeting in an enclosed office. The …
C-stores Are Nicer In Germany (Or At Least This One Is!) April 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes The stores tied in with gas stations in Germany are evidently much nicer than the ones crammed and grubby ones I’ve seen around North America – at least the new ones operated by a company over there called TotalEnergies. The store design and execution team at the German firm umdasch pushed out images of a …
How About An LED Video Wall That Folds Into A Golf Bag-Sized Roller Case? April 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Chinese LED display manufacturer has started marketing a solution that puts a totem-sized video display for the rental and portable market inside a roller case that’s roughly the size of those used by traveling golfers. As demo’d on Linkedin, the set-up from the Shenzhen company KX Display is stored in a heavy-duty travel case …
Startup SignageLab Touts “Universal Remote Control” For Digital Signage Displays April 26, 2023 by Florian Rotberg This post appears in German on the site of our content partner invidis – in a new series about emerging companies. Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis Three years ago, David Šauer and Tomáš Skala started SignageLab with a self-developed digital signage CMS based on WordPress. The website CMS quickly proved to be an inadequate technical …
Loop Media Partners With Group Buying Power Firm To Push DOOH Network Expansion In Canada April 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes The streaming on-premise digital signage and DOOH firm Loop Media has struck what seems like a novel deal to expand its footprint in the Canadian market, adding distribution though a firm that offers group purchasing power to small and medium-sized businesses. The partnership puts the Loop TV service – curated streaming content channels supported by …
New Tiffany Flagship Uses LED To Create Million-Dollar Views Of New York From Solid Walls April 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to UK-based AV Magazine for catching something I missed at first glance about the very expensively renovated Tiffany & Co. flagship at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York. The photos I first saw suggested there was little to no digital in the reworked “Landmark” store, but AV picked up that the …
Oakland As Buy Las Vegas Land; New-Build Ballpark (Presumably With Many, Many Screens) Targeted For 2027 April 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Health care, airports and sports and entertainment venues tend to all present long and bureaucracy-filled sales processes, but the projects can offer a lot of scale in terms of hardware and software deals for companies selling digital signage solutions. So word that the Oakland As are getting closer and closer to moving to Las Vegas …
