Transparent LEDs And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center September 6, 2018 by Super User This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. The feature car turntable at the base has LED strips on the circular glass …
Why Big Retailers Like Whole Foods Are Deploying Digital Endcaps And Shelf-Edge Displays September 5, 2018 by Super User Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, …
LCD Display Market Booming, Says IHS Markit In New Tracker Research September 4, 2018 by Super User Research firm IHS Markit says the large format LCD display market is booming at the moment, with panel shipments hitting a record monthly high in July 2018 in terms of unit and area shipment. London-based IHS says unit shipments increased by 10 percent in July compared to a year ago, to reach 64.3 million units, …
X2O Media Takes Old Founder To Court, Alleging Trade Secrets Used For His New Company September 1, 2018 by Super User Digital signage management software firm X2O Media is going after its old CEO in a Las Vegas court, claiming his new firm has misappropriated trade secrets. X2O is also claiming, as reflected in filings with the US District Court in Nevada, breach of contract and trademark infringement by Xentiant Technologies and its founder David Wilkins. …
Cancer Survivor Uses Times Square LED Board In Search For Kidney Donor September 1, 2018 by Super User A Long Island, NY man is using donated time on one of the big LED billboards in Times Square to pitch his need for a new kidney. Bladder cancer survivor Marc Weiner lost both kidneys in treatment, and now requires dialysis to stay alive. His wife’s friend donated time on a 5,000 square foot billboard on …
16:9 Changes Afoot; May Be Disruptions Here And There August 29, 2018 by Super User I’ve been working with a terrific WordPress expert this summer to clean up Sixteen:Nine, get it on a modern, heavily supported theme, and move it to https (secure). That work is done and starting tomorrow the revamped site will start to replace the existing site. It will look very similar, but you may notice some …
Got An Opinion On SoC: Let Me Know Here August 29, 2018 by Super User Getting some great insights from CEOs and CTOs on the current state, pros and cons and future of System on Chip displays – all for an updated special report I am doing with my friends at SignageOS, in Prague. The report should be out in the fall, and we’re looking for as much feedback as …
Screens Help Tell Sporting World’s Post-9/11 Response In New Exhibit August 29, 2018 by Super User Digital plays a modest but important role in a new exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, with Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11 recalling the sporting world’s response after the 9/11 attacks. The exhibit, says a press release, highlights the vital role professional sports played in national mourning as fans rallied …
Refik Anadol Talks About How He Develops His Mind-Blowing Digital Data Sculptures August 29, 2018 by Super User If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he …
Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D August 28, 2018 by Super User We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not …
