Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Super User The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending …
Big Oops! Huge LED Wall In Ruins At Mandalay Bay’s Arena May 13, 2019 by Super User There are endless theories, it seems, as to what happened – but what is without question is that the other day, an LED wall hung on a truss for events at the Mandalay Bay’s arena in Las Vegas collapsed. It seems to have been a relatively slow motion collapse, as opposed to a catastrophic crash. …
Spain’s TRISON Acquires UK-based Digital Signage Agency Beaver Group May 13, 2019 by Super User Big pro AV news out of Spain and the UK earlier today, with the TRISON Group announcing its acquisition of Beaver Group, which has done many of the better QSR and retail digital signage jobs in the UK in recent years. TRISON is Europe’s biggest digital signage-focused integrator – kinda like Diversified, but in Galician …
Seattle DSF Mixer Gets The Understory On Amazon’s Spheres May 9, 2019 by Super User It took going to Seattle to remember and realize a few things about the city and region. First, there are some really big, impactful companies out here – like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Boeing and a little coffee chain called Starbucks. Second, there’s more of a signage ecosystem than is maybe obvious. I am in Seattle …
Robert Heise On GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field May 8, 2019 by Super User Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. GDS expanded into digital …
Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC May 6, 2019 by Super User Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining …
Cruise Line Uses Robotic Arms For Choreographed LED Screen Shows May 4, 2019 by Super User Four Royal Caribbean cruise ships – the newer ones that are the size fully loaded container ships – are now using screens on robotic arms for entertainment. The cruise line’s Quantum Class ships – like the Spectrum of the Seas – have lounges with these dancing screens, using ABB robotics arms. The first ones went …
From Oldest To Newest: Barclays Refreshes Massive LED Facade in NY Times Square May 3, 2019 by Super User The UK-based investment bank Barclays has refreshed the LED displays on the facade of its New York City headquarters on Seventh Avenue, putting on 7,046 square feet of new direct LED. “The enhanced signage system is a powerful example of how we infuse digital innovation into everything we do here at Barclays,” says Richard Haworth, …
Company That Rents Physical Artworks To Businesses Adds Digital Signage Capabilities May 3, 2019 by Super User A company that provides physical works of art as a service to property owners and companies has added digital capability, providing a presumably less costly alternative to custom creative for things like large format video walls. Boston-based TurningArt says it has a collection of over 25,000 pieces of art, including paintings, illustrations and photographs, “most of …
Now NYC Activists Are Duct-Taping Anti-Smart City Messages On LinkNYC DOOH Screens May 3, 2019 by Super User It’s been a rough few weeks for the media company Intersection and its LinkNYC “smart cities” ad posters. First, dozens were vandalized and damaged. Now an activist group is duct-taping anti-LinkNYC messages to the screens. RethinkLinkNYC is a New York-based community group that opposes the screens, primarily on the basis of privacy concerns. The group’s …
