Leyard Posts Technical Drawings, Details On Its Role At Beijing Olympics Opening February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes The plot seems to keep thickening over which Chinese display technology put together the feast of LED displays and delivered big visuals for the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with giant LED manufacturer Leyard putting out material that shows drawings, behind the scenes photos and even the people who put it together. This …
Locating Graves Made Easy By Putting Digital Wayfinding Kiosks In A Norwegian Cemetery February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Peter Ødemark for pointing me to this … There will be people who will utter the old “Now I’ve seen everything” phrase when they read about a Norwegian cemetery using interactive digital wayfinding screens, but I think it is clever way to address a tangible and very familiar problem. A Norwegian firm located …
LEDs Create Zombie-Filled School Bus For Netflix Series Promo February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am not a big fan of digital out of home advertising and marketing campaigns that try to realize a desired effect by scaring the crap out of people, and this is a prime example of a digital display project that is very clever and eye-catching, but could cause some collateral damage. It’s in Bangkok, …
Media Resources Lands $3M Gov’t R&D Grant To Expand Into Fine Pitch LED February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Toronto-area LED and conventional sign company Media Resources has landed a $3 million grant from Canada’s National Research Council that will help extend its LED line-up into fine pitch products. Under the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) Large Value Contribution program, the company says in PR that the $2,999,680 CAD grant also includes advisory …
Beijing Opening Ceremonies Clearly Used A Lot Of LED, But Nothing Clear About The Supplier! February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The giant display that covered the full floor of the stadium hosting the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics was definitely LED technology, but what’s not at all definite – it seems – is the supplier of all those LED tiles. In various reports and social media posts from companies, the 10,000-plus square meters of …
Papercast Shows How Its E-Paper Transit Screens Handle Canadian Winters February 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of the discussion around the viability of outdoor displays tends to focus, understandably, on whether a screen can extreme temperatures and glare – but winter brings other challenges. A small UK-HQ’d company called Papercast, which does e-paper displays for sectors like mass transport, put a post up on Linkedin that shows one of …
Is The Beijing Bird’s Nest Floor One Big LED Display? February 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I watched a little of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony this morning as Nespresso very slowly re-animated me, and thought to myself, “That’s some serious projection-mapping going on there.” But looking online at some of the images coming out of the Bird’s Nest stadium, I am now thinking the whole stadium floor and the ramp …
Where’d The Post Go??? February 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Every so often I will get material from vendors that details in words and images the work done with a customer – and 99.9% of the time, there’s no issue with passing that along to readers (if the material is worth passing along!). But once in a while, wires get crossed or someone PR or …
SF Startup Starts Marketing Its Own Take On Flip-Disc/Split-Flap Displays February 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes I don’t know if the modern takes on old-school flip-disc or split-flap sign technology would qualify as digital signage, but I’ve always liked the kinetic, noisy nature of signs that have madly spinning characters that eventually lock in and present a message – whether that’s revised train arrival times at a rail hall or drink …
Commercial Display Sales Almost Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels In US February 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes Commercial display and projector sales through U.S. distribution channels are coming back nicely after a big dip brought on by the pandemic, and despite supply chain issues. That’s the word from the Southern California research firm PMA Research (PMA) in the newest version of its all-displays sell-through tracking report – which looks at professional large-format flat …
