3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table November 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. Make Studios created a 3D printed skyline …
Video: LED Shelf-Edge Displays In Grocery Dairy Fridges November 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen a few companies at trade shows demo-ing LCD and LED ribbon displays intended for retail shelf edges, but can’t say I’ve seen any out in the real world. So it’s interesting to see this install – no word on whether this is a rollout or a one-shop demo – of a set of …
16:9 Projects Podcast: The Story Behind That 13K LED Wall In Netflix’s HQ Lobby November 24, 2017 by Danica Trapara Imagine, while sitting in the lobby waiting for your next meeting, three walls around you change, placing you in a cocaine manufacturing camp in the jungles of Colombia. Minutes later, they change again to drop you into a prison cafeteria in upper New York state. When Netflix was designing the lobby of their new Hollywood …
New Projection Mapping Festival Lighting Up Hong Kong Facades November 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes The light and laser show on the skycrapers lining Hong Kong’s spectacular waterfront have a bit of visual competition right now – a video projection mapping event called the Lumieres Hong Kong festival. Running Nov. 23-25 (so it is on right now in Hong Kong, where it is evening), the festival features three nights of light …
Video Walls Can Be Amazing Even With Very Low Rez LEDs: Exhibit A November 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes The lion’s share of the buzz these days with LED displays is with the increasingly fine pitch modules that provide HD visuals even on outdoor jobs. But there’s a lot to be said for clever work that uses low-rez, anything but fine pitch, LED products to create a great visual experience. This is the College Football …
iGirouette Digital Street Signs Get First Rollout In Lyon. France November 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes If you’ve been at ISE in Amsterdam the last couple of years, and particularly the 2017 version, you will likely have noticed digital directional signs that are a bit of a hybrid of a street sign post and a wayfinding system. It’s a system I thought was really interesting, but wondered if there were real …
LED Display Maker Ultravision Wins Patent Infringement Fight With Chinese Firm November 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes With the qualifier that my knowledge of international patent disputes is right up there with my depth of understanding of trends in women’s footwear, this nonetheless seems interesting – a U.S. LED display tech company winning a patent dispute with a Chinese competitor. Dallas-based Ultravision International, which makes LED displays and LED lighting products, has …
LED Walls Envelop Media Corridor At Chongqing’s Airport November 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a media corridor opened up in August in Terminal 3 of Chongqing’s international airport. It may well be a city and airport many in the west only vaguely know about, but the southwestern China city has a population of more than 30 million (which is mind-wobbling). The 65-meter media corridor is an install …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Clarke, Citilabs November 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes The digital out of home media industry has been growing rapidly, and as awareness has built, there’s been more and more of a push from brands and media buyers to provide better, deeper detail on the actual audience. The old way of selling audience for outdoor was gross traffic counts and extrapolations on what they …
Big Curving LED Welcomes Visitors To Stanford’s New House Of Champions November 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Home of Champions hall of fame-ish center at Stanford University – an old basketball gymnasium in the athletic department’s building on campus that is now a central showcase for the school’s sports teams and individual athletes. Opened to the public in September 2017, the museum now houses over 40 displays celebrating the …
