Samsung Remotely Disabling Connected Smart TVs Stolen By South African Looters August 24, 2021 by Super User Samsung has announced an interesting way to deal with looting and theft of smart TVs and, I assume, smart commercial displays – remotely disabling them and rendering the screens useless. The electronics giant announced recently that it would use a designed-in “block function” on smart screens to neuter stolen TVs in South Africa when they …
Saudi’s Expo Dubai Pavilion Includes Huge 1,300 Sq. M. LED Jutting From Ground August 23, 2021 by Super User The 2020 Expo in Dubai got pushed off by a year-plus by COVID-19, but is set to open in the UAE in October – with one of the biggest physical attractions the Saudi Arabia Pavilion. The boxy building rises at a sharp angle from the sand, and features LED light strips on the outer faces …
Korean University Uses LED-embedded Building Glass With Near 99%+ Transparency August 20, 2021 by Super User This is a video of architectural glass with embedded RGB LEDs that still offer 99%+ transparency – in this case at a university building in South Korea. There may well be engineering, supply and cost reasons why architects and building engineers say this sort of thing is not feasible, but it certainly seems there is …
Cleveland Sports Fans Get Amped For Games Walking Through LED Power Portal August 20, 2021 by Super User Cleveland sports fans will know about the Power Portal LED tunnel at the city’s main sports arena, but it is new to me – and likely many digital signage people. Lit up two years ago, it is one of the main entry passageways into the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, home of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The …
Korean-US R&D Effort Getting MicroLED Light Emitters Down To The Size Of Virus Particles August 20, 2021 by Super User If you listened to this week’s Sixteen:Nine Podcast or read the transcript, you may recall SCALA/STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel talking about the microLED plant he is spinning up and the huge advances being seen in microLED R&D. He reference how new manufacturing processes are making it possible to make light-emitting, addressable LEDs that are truly …
Intel Winding Down Its RealSense Computer Vision Business: Report August 19, 2021 by Super User Via CRN The long-running IT publication CRN is reporting that Intel is “winding down” its RealSense computer vision business, meaning its depth sensor cameras are going away just as Microsoft ended production and support for its Kinect sensor cameras. Reports CRN: We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products …
Philips Pro Displays Can Now Be Managed, Monitored From Crestron Controller Screens August 19, 2021 by Super User PPDS, the company that markets Philips commercial display solutions, has done an interesting tie-up with AV automation and integration giant Crestron that makes networked screens easily monitored and managed from Crestron’s XiO Cloud solution. The XiO Cloud platform makes it possible to remotely control a screen’s functions from a touchscreen Crestron AV systems controller – …
An LED Butterfly, Or Maybe Dragonfly, Lands At South China Airport August 19, 2021 by Super User This is an interesting solution to an architectural problem faced by whatever media company has the concession at the international airport in the southern Chinese city of Kunming. The big bulkhead between the up and down escalators is visually interrupted by a very large vertical support column. The standard solution would be to put separate …
Florida Developer Using LED Video Wall To Make Statement About Big Mixed-Use Project August 19, 2021 by Super User The developers of a big mixed-use site in Coral Gables, FL put in a giant fine pitch LED display in the main office tower lobby to make a statement about the project. The developer, Agave Ponce, wanted the display to make it clear the property was unique for the area. Mediterranean-styled Plaza Coral Gables is …
LG Now Marketing Full Digital Signage Solution, Inc. Software, For QSR Vertical August 18, 2021 by Super User If you are active on the software side of digital signage, you’ve undoubtedly seen Samsung evolving its MagicINFO software from a low or no-cost add-on for small jobs to a full-featured enterprise platform that competes against pure-play CMS software companies. LG has also had a product called SuperSign in the market for more than a …
