AI-Generated Messi Artwork Sells for 1.8 Million Dollars July 24, 2025 by invidis You’ve seen it in the movies: a gentleman with a gavel looks around the room and calls out, “First, second, third – sold!” The winning bidder beams with joy, clutching their new artwork. This still happens today – but now, it also happens online. And yes, serious money changes hands there too. Case in point: …
Transparent LED DJ Stage to Elevate Bouncy Play Park July 24, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Bounce Empire, just outside Denver, Colorado, has added a new DJ stage framed with transparent LED screens. The venue – touted as the world’s largest indoor inflatable amusement park – had the screens installed in a circular formation around a 360-degree hydraulic stage, measuring 65 feet in circumference and 4 feet high. The setup uses …
Massive São Paulo LED Façade Gets 4× Resolution Upgrade July 22, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger What’s framed as “Latin America’s largest open-air digital art gallery” has just undergone a major tech upgrade. The original setup – a low-res LED light façade spanning 2,818 m² (303,323 ft²) – was installed in 2012. Now, the screen wrapping the triangular Fiesp building in São Paulo boasts four times the number of LED dots …
Omdia Projects Display Market to Hold Steady in 2025 Despite Tariff Concerns July 22, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Despite the threat of U.S. tariffs, market research firm Omdia expects the display market to see slight growth in 2025. According to its latest “Large-Area Display Market Tracker,” about 75.3 million panels larger than 9 inches are expected to be shipped for use in public information displays (PID), which includes digital signage. This represents a …
LA’s Sunset Strip Just Got Its First Anamorphic LED Screen July 21, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger A ride down LA’s Sunset Strip is like a journey through the history of out-of-home advertising. Some remnants still linger of the iconic billboards that showcased the Beatles parading over Hollywood’s hottest nightclubs in the 80s. Today, nearly half the billboards on the Strip are owned by streaming giant Netflix, which began steadily acquiring OoH …
Almo’s Linklab Wants to Take the Headache Out of DV-LED for AV Integrators July 21, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Earlier this year, U.S. ProAV distributor Almo, consolidated its service offerings under a new sub-brand: Linklab. Led by former Director of Services, now Vice President Cory Allen, Linklab allows AV integrators to bolster their own offerings through a range of services, including design, installation, content creation, and ongoing support. To strengthen its capabilities in the …
AI in Digital Signage: Lukas Danek on How SignageOS Integrates AI Across Teams July 18, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Some may argue that the digital signage industry has been slow to embrace AI. But that claim doesn’t hold up across the board. In fact, many software vendors are actively experimenting with AI agents and tools to automate workflows for their users. Internally, companies across the industry are also seeing AI completely reshape how their …
2,580 Square Feet of Absen LED Powers Australia’s Expo 2025 Pavilion July 16, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger In Japanese Osaka, 150 countries are currently showing their vision of “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”. One of the pavilions that’s being praised for its immersive design is Australia’s. Titled “Chasing the Sun,” the pavilion incorporates more than 2,580 square feet of LED displays from Chinese manufacturer Absen. Four types of LED products are …
Nanolumens Sued by Cree LED Over Alleged Patent Infringement July 16, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer Nanolumens. The lawsuit alleges that Nanolumens has infringed six U.S. patents held by Cree LED and involves the sale of certain Nanolumens display products. North-Carolina-based Cree LED develops LED chips and components. The patents the company allegedly holds …
Microsoft Pushes to Standardize Digital Signage with Android-Based Platform July 15, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Over the past few months, our newsroom inbox has seen a few press releases trickle in about hardware vendors joining the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) for digital signage. This prompted me to have a chat with MDEP expert Jon Sidwick from AV consultancy Blue Touch Paper. The article I wrote for invidis.com ended up …
