LianTronics Boosts North American LED Sales And Solutions Via New Deal With 3Dot Technologies November 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes LianTronics is by volume on one of the larger direct view LED manufacturers on the planet, but the Chinese is not all that well-known in North America – a situation it hopes to change via a new distribution agreement with a Toronto-area company focused on video wall solutions. 3Dot Technologies, based in my old home …
New Suburban Toronto Development’s Using Big Low-Rez LED Screen As Luminous Art Wall November 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes A development called SmartVMC on the outer edges of Toronto has put in a big low-rez LED video wall to run public art for the many people who spill out of regional buses and the north end of a subway line. The outdoor display is billed as Canada’s largest low rez digital display – “a …
Modernizing Corporate Digital Signage In The Enterprise November 1, 2021 by Daniel Hurtado Guest Post: Daniel Hurtado, Userful In today’s corporate landscape, interconnection is paramount for organizations to thrive, and maybe even survive. Increasingly, our interconnectedness is visual, and companies are using visual tools to communicate, leveraging video, images, dashboards and more. The need for those visual tools, along with the decreased price of screens, advancements in technology …
Nike Shanghai Flagship Uses Four-Storey LED Tower And LED Floors For Lebron Skills Challenge October 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting blend of semi-transparent LED mesh video walls, LED floor tiles, sensors and real-time visualized data used to create an interactive basketball experience in a Nike flagship in Shanghai. Nike worked with basketball god Lebron James to develop a skills challenge set that aspiring hoopers could inside the store, with sensors lighting …
AVIXA Announces 2021 AV Professional Awards October 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes AVIXA – aka the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association – yesterday announced the 2021 winners of its AV Professional Awards. While a lot of the winners may be more familiar to other corners of the pro AV, there are some great people like Brandy Alvarado-Miranda who work in or touch on digital signage. The awards, …
Video: We Go Walkies At InfoComm 2021 With Manny And Ben Of Q Division October 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes Manolo Almagro and Ben Gauthier from the consultancy Q Division are down at InfoComm walking the floor and getting set to speak tomorrow morning. They very kindly offered to give me a quick walk-around and impressions from the floor. The quick summary: it’s busier than expected, but in the context of digital signage, there’s not …
Poland’s Screen Network Raising Climate Change Awareness Using Warsaw LED Countdown Clock October 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Polish OOH media firm Screen Network has started supporting an educational campaign that bluntly reminds people how time is running out to make the industrial and behavioral changes to stop what would be irreversible climate changes. A climate change countdown clock is now part of the content running on a big LED display atop …
It’s Impossible And Silly To Cover InfoComm From 2,000 Miles Away, So Here Goes … October 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes It is impossible, and arguably silly, to try to get much of a sense of how a trade show is going in Florida, from a home office in Nova Scotia, but what the hell, here goes … Based on some emails, texts and social media monitoring, the now-open InfoComm trade show hall looks pretty much …
Here’s A Very Clever Use Of Those LED Light Wand Thingies, For Generative Art October 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have hugely mixed feelings about those madly spinning LED light wand thingies that always seem to attract attention at trade shows. I think they’re gimmicks with short-term stopping power. I worry about any electronics in busy spaces that has moving parts, and these things spin like fans. And I dislike how they’re called holograms, …
Are Your Screens Looking Blue? There’s A Reason … October 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes Display Daily has an interesting post up (but behind a modest pay wall) about an issue with some flat panel displays that was relayed to me, but was technically kind of over my head. UK-based Display Daily editor Bob Raikes is very strong technically, so I passed along the photo link, curious about his thoughts. …
