Yodeck Now Supporting NEC’s Raspberry Pi-based Smart Displays September 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes It has been a few years since NEC Display bucked the big trend toward hard-wired System on Chip displays by instead focusing on smart displays that could be upgraded just by opening a trap door and swapping out the smarts. There has not been a mad rush to go down NEC’s path, as the platform …
Huge Rocket On Launchpad Projection-Mapped To Celebrate Private Space Program August 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping has been done on all kinds of things – including a retired Space Shuttle and D.C.’s obelisk – but this is the first time I think I have seen a working rocket used as a display canvas. Six Christie laser projectors were sync’d and blended by PaintScaping and Nationwide Video to put visuals on …
65 Foot Programmable LED Light Sculpture Rises In Warner Media’s NYC Offices August 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is called The Prow, a light sculpture that can also serve as a very different kind of digital sign at its location, the splashy new HQ of Warner Media in New York. I wrote earlier in the month about the digital job done for workplace and visitor communications over 27 floors of a new …
Display Manufacturer Prysm Goes Chapter 11; Collaboration SW Arm Sold Off August 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via Inavate The Silicon Valley tech company Prysm has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, selling off the collaboration software software and handing over other assets to Kuwaiti backers. The company bubbled up more than 10 years with display tiles that were similar in shape and use as Christie’s original MicroTiles, though using laser phospor technology …
How To Do Wayfinding Design For Stress-Filled Environments, In Stress-Filled Times August 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big architectural and experiential design firm NBBJ has developed an interesting paper that looks at signage as an important means of de-stressing visits to medical centers by people who are worried they’ve picked up COVID-19. “Studies show high levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, can decrease memory and critical thinking skills,” says a team …
Facial Authentication: Frictionless Transactions for Customers August 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Sanjay Manandhar, ISM Connect When maturity of browsers in the late 1990s was making websites more than digital posters, and getting us all into e-commerce, a constant refrain was that it was not advisable to put one’s credit card details online—fraudsters might start using your credit card. Today, due to advancement in secure network connection …
LED Mesh Wall For Public Art Lights Up In Metro Vancouver August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive This is a semi-transparent LED mesh wall wrapping around the corner of a mixed-use tower in in Burnaby, BC, a city in the immediate orbit of Vancouver. The screen, with a shape very reminiscent of that big Samsung display in Seoul, is very different in that it is there solely to run …
Primeview Debuts Giant 32:9 Ratio Turnkey LED Display August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes The New York-based LED display solutions company Primeview has announced a new line of indoor turn-key LED displays, including what the company says is the world’s first 32×9 aspect ratio standard, 3840×1080 pixel resolution, bezel-free panel display. The units come in 1.2mm, 1.5mm, 1.9mm or 2.5mm pixel pitch, and are geared to digital signage applications …
Innolux Demos Rollable 55-Inch MiniLED Display That Unfurls From Housing August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit: LED Inside The Taiwan-based display manufacturer Innolux has started showing demos of a new kind of rollable 55-inch screen that uses direct view miniLED and is touted as a better, less expensive version of LG’s rollable OLEDs. The company, part of the huge Foxconn group of tech companies, did a product premiere this …
D3, Southpaw Live Merge Their LED Businesses August 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes A pair of well-established direct view LED companies have merged, creating what they’re touting as a “powerful mix of the best minds in LED engineering,” developing a proprietary American product line. The merger is between Texas-based Southpaw Live and California-based D3 LED. Located in suburban Dallas, Southpaw has been around for 30 years and focuses …
