Renovated Hugo Boss Store Adds Split Flap Display To Shopper Experience On London’s Regent Street March 8, 2023 by Super User Here’s an example of an electro-mechanical display being used in high-end retail for interesting and different messaging, in this case for a newly renovated HUGO BOSS store on Regent Street in London. It is supplied by Vestaboard, a Silicon Valley start-up that specializes in split flap displays that share the same core design and operating …
London’s Transport Authority Expanding LED-based Countdown Signs; Testing Interactive And E-Paper Signs March 7, 2023 by Super User The integrated mass transport authority for the UK’s capital city area – Transport For London (TfL) – is adding 300 more of its simple LED countdown displays to routes this year, and also started trials of e-paper displays on bus stop poles and interactive full color displays inside bus shelters on one route. Beginning this …
Now There’s An Acronym For Something That Isn’t Really A Thing: FP3D Billboards March 6, 2023 by Super User Now media companies are getting into the flawed habit of calling their advertising displays something they’re not. Abu Dhabi-based BackLite Media sent me PR about its winning the concession to deploy new digital billboards at a flashy new waterfront destination in the city state – trumpeting how the “new range includes a curved screen, which …
MIT-Guided Researchers Stacking MicroLEDs To Pack More Pixels Into Small Displays March 2, 2023 by Super User MicroLED and even miniLED area already pretty much at a level of development maturity that viewers can be inches from a screen and not really see any gaps between pixels, but there is an ongoing push to get the density of pixels even tighter – albeit for small displays versus giant video walls. Display Daily …
Small Colorado Springs Integrator Says It Has Deal To Upgrade Some 10,000 US Car Dealerships March 2, 2023 by Super User The larger the client, the smaller the likelihood that a vendor can say much of anything about what it is doing for that client. A good example of that is a Colorado Springs IT company – called Tekumo – that has pushed out a press release saying it has been contracted to do a big …
Have A Look At This Digital Sign With A Wood Veneer Face March 2, 2023 by Super User This is apparently Future LG Morning around here – with a second post about conceptual products from the Korean electronics giant. The company has a small stand at an Airport Planning, Design, and Construction Symposium in LA this week, and along with more conventional displays it says would fit in airport environments, LG and its …
Outform Showing Digital Mannequins At EuroShop That Borrow On Those Transparent Hologram-Ish Displays March 1, 2023 by Super User The retail design and visual merchandising firm Outform is at the giant Euroshop trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany this week showing, among many things, an interesting variation on those shower stall-like transparent LCD displays. In this case, the life-sized units are being marketed as Digital Mannequins, as opposed to (not really) holograms. The Miami-based company’s …
New KC Airport Includes Digitally-Driven Simulation For First-Time And Anxious Fliers March 1, 2023 by Super User The brand-new terminal at Kansas City International Airport has, like most new and reno’d airports, a lot of digital display deployed around its sprawling footprint, including some 300 feet of fine pitch Nanolumens LED used to designate and locate airline check-in. But there’s also a super-interesting component that uses digital displays as part of an …
Fine Pitch LED Walls Create Virtual Aquarium At IT Giant’s NYC Offices March 1, 2023 by Super User Aquariums have been used as office lobby decor for decades, but LED video wall technology has now matured and lowered in cost to a point that big virtual fish tanks can maybe go in instead – likely saving on a lot of maintenance and food for the fishies. The IT firm World Wide Technology has …
Live Performers Pair With Movement Tracking On Video Wall On The Absolutally Walkway March 1, 2023 by Super User I’ve seen companies like Zuzor at digital signage and AV trade shows demonstrating movement tracking experiential software for video walls, and thought it was interesting, but couldn’t come up with many real-world use-cases other than eye candy for little kids and extroverts. But here’s one that uses that sort of tech to to pair brand …
