Commercial Block Retrofitted With LED-Embedded Glass Facade; Looks Good Even From Inside July 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a small commercial building in Tangshan, a city that looks like it is maybe an hour east of Beijing, with an 83 sq. meter LED on glass display on its main facade. This is interesting because it is LED in glass, and not the mesh LED products that can look great from the …
Manchester’s Airport Opens T2; Passengers Welcomed With Giant Display July 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Manchester, England’s airport opened its new Terminal 2 today, and it is filled with the kinds of operational digital signage typical at airports, but there’s also a very nice 81-square meter media wall in a common passengers area. I can’t tell from the pix if it is LED or LCD. I assume LED, but the …
imageHOLDERS, Ultraleap Partner On Touchless Kiosk Solutions July 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes After almost 18 months of a global pandemic I’d suggest the bulk of the population – save for the puzzling people who insist it’s a hoax or that their freedoms are threatened – has a routine down for touching things and then seeking out some hand sanitizer. We also know, broadly, that COVID is much …
Micromobility Start-up Taps Broadsign To Drive Media Side Of Its Business July 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Admittedly, I had to look up micromobility when I got a press announcement regarding a tie-up between the ad-focused CMS software shop Broadsign and a company called Swiftmile, billed as “the pioneer in micromobility charging infrastructure and technology.” The deal sees Broadsign’s platform driving the digital posters at specialized charging hubs around downtown Miami that …
Skinny LCD Used As Header On Nice Chain Drug End Cap For Allergy Relief Product July 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice, sleek digital endcap developed by the packaging and fixture giant WestRock for a US chain drug operator (not sure which one). It’s a good use of those stretch or bar-type LCDs that have seen a revival in the last couple of years – probably owing hugely to dropping costs and less …
DC’s Union Station Gets Big, Ad-Driven Digital Display Upgrade July 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Union Station, the main rail hub in Washington, DC, has been spruced up with a series of displays across the building’s three level – with a mix of travel, safety and weather information, supported by ads. The network is bankrolled by the media company New Tradition and was project managed by the LA consulting firm …
The Talking Flat Ladies Have Risen From The Dead, And They’re Now “Holograms” July 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes It was maybe 10 years ago, perhaps longer, when a few companies started marketing solutions for airports, retail and elsewhere that involved a looped rear-projection of a person on a sheet of plexiglas overlaid with a projection film. The idea was that this virtual person – albeit a short-ish and very flat person – could …
Passenger Rail Info Screens Hacked In Iran; Travelers See Faked Messaging, Times July 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes There have been lots of reports through the years of digital signage systems being hacked, but the usual end-product has been naughty videos taking the place of scheduled content. Something very different happened recently in Iran. The German digital signage publication produced by invidis is reporting how a hack took control of the track information …
Digital Signage Summit Europe Plans Full In-Person Event Late September In Munich July 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes My friends at the German consultancy and publishing firm invidis have released plans for Digital Signage Summit (DSS) Europe at the end of September in Munich. It will be a full, in-person event with no virtual components – acknowledging that while the pandemic is not over, a lot of people have been fully vaccinated and …
96M-Wide Visualized Data Display On Sydney’s Convention Center July 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes This isn’t new, but it is to me – a long, wide LED running visualized data as art on a permanent installation at the convention center in Sydney, Australia. The Datascape wall is 96 meters wide, or roughly the length of a football pitch. It is on a wall on what is known as Moriarty …
