Expanded UNIQLO Store Takes Big Steps With LED May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes The expanded UNIQLO store at Toronto Eaton Centre – a huge indoor mall in the city’s central business district – has a staircase that’s now lined with LED risers. The stairs were custom-made by Ottawa’s UTG Digital Media for the expansion. They are 27 feet wide and have 13 shock-absorbent steps, all of which can display …
Screenfeed Develops Free-To-Use Content To Help Find Missing Kids In US May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes The great folks at Minneapolis-based Screenfeed have been working on something since last October with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the U.S. Using an API from the center, Screenfeed has built a content feed of kids that are missing, based on the location. Screenfeed Jeremy Gavin says his team has built …
This Crazy LED Chandelier Was Installed In A Chinese Lux Hotel May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is in a hotel – repeat, a hotel – in Foshan, China, about 90 minutes up a freeway from Shenzhen. It is an LED chandelier thingie (technical term) made up of five 4mm pixel pitch flexible LEDs, There are also 12 suspended LED columns. The thing can travel up and down more than 30 feet. …
Fab Stanghieri On Why Canada’s Biggest Cinema Company Is In Digital Signage May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. Cineplex now has entertainment-centric restaurant-bars, is bringing Top Golf into Canada, sells out of home media and runs a thriving digital media group …
NYC’s 28 Liberty Gets Reinvigorated With Big Lobby LED Features May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of how big fine-pitch LED video walls are the 2019 version of 1980s and 90s water features in office tower lobbies. The property owners for 28 Liberty in New York wanted a visual solution that reinvigorated the space and, more to the point, made tenants want to move in and existing ones decide …
New Liverpool Seven Store Makes Digital Signage A Focal Point May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Some nice uses of narrow bezel Philips LCD displays in this new Seven apparel store in Liverpool, put in by the UK solutions provider Skratch. Not really sure about the big green wall with the shoe display shelves. Don’t see bezels, so I am either missing that in the pic, it’s LED ($$$!!!), or a …
Diversified In Software Partnership For Workplace Digital Signage May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes 16:9 could be an endless supply of re-purposed PR about new industry partnerships, but I read and then ignore most of that news because experience and analytics show readers aren’t much interested either. However, when the biggest digital signage-focused integrator in North America announces a partnership for workplace communications, I get more interested. New Jersey-based …
Ferrari Dealer Switches Out Paper Showroom Fact Sheets For E-Paper Tags May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes The guys at Freshwater Digital have built up knowledge and experience working with e-paper signs – or what they call digital tags – and introduced them into interesting use cases. I know the Grand Rapids, MI solution provider has a research client using them at stations to automatically update findings and status. Now, in a …
New Statue Of Liberty Museum Is Filled With Screens May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at the newly-opened Statue of Liberty Museum, which is located Guess Where. The new museum is part of a $100 million Liberty Island-wide beautification effort that’s being funded by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in collaboration with the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior. The museum …
LED Board In Flames In Times Square A Mitsubishi, But Doubtful That Display Was Fire’s Origin May 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes That media display board that was on fire on the weekend was indeed a Mitsubishi LED display, but I’ve not yet found anything online explaining what happened. It’s easy to to look at this incident and see a problem owing to LED tech, but the screen may well have been collateral damage, with the origins …
