Low Rez LEDs Make Big Visual Impact At Revitalized Montreal Office Block November 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes I think there is pretty widespread affection for the idea of energizing a building lobby with an LED-filled feature wall, but equally widespread horror at the cost of doing that. Some of the projects that have been done to date – like the work in the lobbies of Salesforce and Netflix – are amazing visually, …
LED Fills Entire Wall At Regional Bank’s Newest Branch November 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a screen grab (video in embedded tweet below) of a direct view LED video wall being tested at a branch of Amerant, a regional, Florida-based community bank. The fine-pitch LED fills the rear wall behind the customer service counters and wraps around a doorway. It is reminiscent of what has been happening in …
Drone-Based Light Show Puts Giant Atop Skyscraper November 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes Photo composite from Daily Star (UK) This is much more entertainment and spectacle than signage, but nonetheless a really interesting application of technology to form an animated display. Somewhere in China – not quite sure which big city, and there are many – a drone-based light show has a skyscraper-sized figure atop a skyscraper. This …
Intel Opens Screen-Filled Smart Building Near Tel Aviv November 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes Intel recently opened an awfully nice, screen-filled development center in Petach Tikva, Israel – which is an eastern suburb of Tel Aviv. The 800,000-square-foot, 11-story building brings together 2,000 employees who had been scattered in eight buildings across five campuses. What caught my eye is all of the meeting room sign and directory tech, as …
Now That Coca-Cola Times Square LED Appears To Be Under Repair November 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes Maybe this routine maintenance. Maybe they’re cleaning off city grime. But whatever the case, that ill-fated kinetic Coca-Cola LED display in Times Square had workers and window-cleaner style scaffolding up on Friday. A reader in the city for meetings grabbed a couple of shots, showing numerous that are out and a crew at work. The …
Feeble Email Open Rates Make The Case For Workplace Digital Signage November 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes One of the reasons digital signage is getting a lot of traction as a tool for workplace communications is its ability to reach hard-to-reach employees with important messaging, and a big factor is the feeble effectiveness of emails. New research is confirming what was well known – that e-mail open and click-through rates were low …
Harvard Biz School Adds Massive 62-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Screen To Main Auditorium November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes The adoption rate for direct view LED seems to to be steadily increasing, at the same time as the variety of potential applications keep broadening. I’d not really considered giant fine-pitch LED displays as workable options for lecture hall backdrops, but when you’re the Harvard Business School and have many very rich graduates, all things …
McDonald’s To Have AI-Driven Drive-Thrus In Almost All Stores Before Year’s End November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes There’s an interesting piece up in the New York Times about how McDonald’s is investing heavily in technology to adopt to a fast-changing consumer and competitive landscape. The story goes into how the 2nd biggest fast food company in the world – Subway is #1 – has acquired AI companies this year and set up …
Premium Moviehouse In Oslo Kitted With 100 Displays November 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes A premium cinema in Oslo, Norway has built a lot of the movie-going experience around digital displays, with LED walls and about 100 Scala-driven Philips screens around the entrance lobby, hallways and concessions. The Odeon Kino AS worked with Scala Nordic before the opening last year to get the project live. Scala players drive all …
Live Data Sculpture On Warsaw Mall Facade Reacts To Nearby Pedestrians, Traffic November 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a live data sculpture on a large street-facing LED display on a mall in Warsaw, Poland. Called Symulakra, the visualized content is directly influenced by things like car traffic on the nearby street and data from cell phones of people gathered around the screen, such as the general intensity of mobile internet usage, …
