100+ Square, Framed LCDs Celebrate Hamburger U Trainees At McDonald’s Global HQ October 20, 2023 by Super User There’s a lot of good stuff going on with the experiential design and execution for the relocated downtown Chicago headquarters building of QSR giant McDonald’s. The company was in suburban Chicago for decades, but shifted its global headquarters to the Chicago West Loop, in a historic-looking building designed by Gensler. The HQ opened in 2018, …
New Kennedy Space Center Experience Greets Visitors With Giant 30 by 98 Foot Ground-Level LED Board October 20, 2023 by Super User A big new outdoor LED display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in central Florida is notable for at least a couple if reasons – its sheer scale but also a physical set-up that seemingly bakes in 3D visual illusions as the default creative approach. The great majority of these anamorphic illusions are designed …
NC State’s Flashy Library Refreshes Video Walls With Sony CLEDs October 19, 2023 by Super User North Carolina State was a pretty early adopter of big video walls, putting them in when its James B. Hunt Jr. Library first went up about 10 years ago. That tech – including a big Christie MicroTiles wall (those little rear-projection blocks) – was agin out, and the university has started to replace them with …
Uniguest Makes Another Acquisition, This Time Healthcare Tech Firm pCare October 19, 2023 by Super User When people ask me about vertical markets that are poised for growth, I tend to say now that the industry has started to tap the opportunity for back-of-house, non-office workplace environments, the next big one is health care. We’ve seen some announcements recently from LG and Samsung that suggest they see it as well, and …
Gil Matzliah Of Novisign On His Israeli CMS Company’s Roots And Growth, And Operating In Wartime October 19, 2023 by Super User I bumped into Gil Matzliah at a conference this summer, and told the software executive we were long overdue to do a podcast about what’s happening with his company, Novisign. We finally nailed down a date and time, and as it turned out, it was just days after the horrendous violence that broke out in …
This Dubai Company Has Almost-Crazy Variety Of Kinetic Digital Display Options October 19, 2023 by Super User I stumbled across this company on Linkedin – a Dubai firm called Lazulite that does a wild variety of work using those kinetic/robotic displays that operate a bit like synchronized drawers on sliders, with LEDs on the face of each drawer. This is the same family of tech that was used for the ill-fated and …
Clever Digital Art Piece Traps People Between Books On A Shelf October 19, 2023 by Super User This is much more art than commercial signage, but a fun and interesting approach to mixing screens with physical objects. Japanese multimedia artist Hiroyasu Shimo put a screen in behind books on a bookshelf and created video that makes it appear that tiny people are stuck between the books. Hat tips Alix Pennycuick and Stephan …
Racapé Leaving Post As Global Commercial Head For PPDS; Last Day Just Before ISE October 19, 2023 by Super User I don’t normally write about personnel stuff like new hires and departures because page view metrics clearly suggest few readers have much interest in that kind of news, but this is a big one: the guy who has been a big part of building up the profile and user base for Philips pro displays is …
Screenly Launches Hyper-Secure Power Bi App To Integrate Visualized Data Tools And Digital Signage October 18, 2023 by Super User There are numerous CMS software companies indicating in their features and benefits that their platforms have integrated with Microsoft’s popular and powerful business intelligence and data visualization tool, Power BI. I don’t have enough nerd in me to discern what’s the optimal way to go at this, but I asked Bristol, UK-based Screenly CEO Viktor …
This Week’s GITEX In Dubai Expected To Attract 170,000 Attendees; Satellite Event Planned in Berlin For May 2025 October 18, 2023 by Super User In this part of the world we all tend to regard CES in Las Vegas each January as the mother of all tech trade shows, but there’s a bigger one run each year an ocean and many time zones away – GITEX in Dubai. That show is on this week and it is a monster. …
