New Cruise Ship Features 305 Foot LED Barrel Ceiling November 4, 2019 by Super User Moving to a coastal city that’s a tourist magnet means I now see giant cruise ships all summer and fall when we get down to the harbor. Some days, there are as many as five ships docked in Halifax. I am steadily amazed at how insanely big the newest ships are, and one that’s launching …
30,000 Feet Of Programmable LEDs Drive New Guitar Hotel’s Media Facade November 1, 2019 by Super User This is the LED lighting show on the newly opened Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just outside of Miami. The 34-story destination resort has nearly 30,000 linear feet of programmable LEDs that wrap the building and conform to the unique contoured exterior. The vertical guitar strings on the building extend …
Pizza Outlet Fails To Launch Its Digital Signage November 1, 2019 by Super User Stuff fails. Connectors work loose. Software hangs. It all happens. But this is still pretty bad. An industry friend sent along this image from last night, when he was picking up a pizza at a Domino’s in the US Northeast. One screen out. The other in some sort of Failure To Launch mode with its …
Coates Starts Marketing Sleek Self-Service Kiosks For QSR October 31, 2019 by Super User The Aussie-based, QSR-focused digital signage and retail solutions firm Coates Group has started marketing a self-service screen it says pushes the boundaries on kiosk design. Called the K2, presumably named after the lofty, hard-to-climb Himalayas peak, the touchscreen unit looks like a big, sleek tablet with a payment unit at its bottom. “The release of …
Does MIRROR’s Success Offer New Life To Digital Signage Mirror Displays? October 30, 2019 by Super User I think it is reasonable to suggest the whole magic mirror/LCD display embedded in mirror glass thing has been something less than a runaway success in digital signage. I see them in “stores of the future” and one-off whiz-bang installs, but don’t get any sense they’re widely installed by or for anyone. Perhaps the mainstreaming …
Puma Opens Screen-Filled Immersive Skill Cube In NYC Flagship Store October 30, 2019 by Super User A lot of athletic shoe flagship stores in NYC seem to build their signature customer experiences around hoops, which makes sense for many reasons, but Puma’s new flagship is focused instead on what the Brits call footy. The Skill Cube immerses visitors in a room fitted 270° floor to ceiling with narrow bezel LCD screens, supplemented …
Listen To The Conversation From Coffee And Controversy 2019 October 30, 2019 by Super User A couple of weeks back I was in New York for the annual Digital Signage Federation Coffee and Controversy event, which I moderated. I was able to grab audio last year and post as a podcast, and this year we managed the same. The audio is OK, at best, but you should be able to …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Super User I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Super User Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Super User Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
