Projects: Apple Goes Very Big With LED In New Dubai Store November 25, 2015 by Super User I’ve written in the past about how Apple’s much-imitated minimalist store design has always been, at least to me, curiously light on digital signage. A typical store has screens, but those screens are accents. Very different story at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates, which has a giant, fine pixel pitch LED wall that dominates the …
Day 1 Dubai: It Rained??? November 24, 2015 by Super User A reminder that I am in Dubai this week, so posts will be sporadic, at best. My quick impressions. Very curious place. As over the top as billed. Las Vegas without the casinos, machine gun shooting ranges, Instant Loan shops or Hondurans passing out naughty cards. It is much larger than I thought. Main drag …
13 Options For Fine Pixel-Pitch Indoor LED Displays November 23, 2015 by Curtis Tilly You’re probably seen those big, bright digital billboards along a busy highway in your city, in a place like Times Square or in the form of those monster screens looming over the field at major sports stadiums. They look amazing … until you get up close. A few feet away they look anything but amazing. That …
Projects: Giant Curved OLED Clusters Suspended By LG At Seoul’s Airport November 21, 2015 by Super User Here’s a bit of a statement by LG about its commitment to large-format OLED displays – 280 55-inch OLED displays in a couple of curved, suspended video walls in the terminal at Seoul, South Korea’s Incheon International Airport. LG worked the French design firm Wilmotte & Associés to develop the massive structures – a pair of curved …
IntuiLab’s Interactive Touchscreen Toolset Now Includes Rich Data Tracking Capabilities November 20, 2015 by Super User The French interactive software firm IntuiLab has pushed out a new version of its IntuiFace platform – which enables people to develop touchscreen applications without having any real coding skills – that layers in what it calls enterprise-class data tracking capability. The company, which also has an office in Boston, says IntuiFace v5.2 now addresses everything from fully …
Projects: 14 Digital Experiences In Giant Nebraska Furniture Mart November 20, 2015 by Super User Here’s a look inside at the digital signage installed in the giant Nebraska Furniture Mart store that opened in the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this year. Premier Mounts and Reflect have pushed out a press release about the installation that sees “14 unique digital experiences for nearly 60 displays throughout the store.” Sounds like a lot, …
Projects: NFL’s Patriots Add Interactive LED Towers To Game-Day Experience November 19, 2015 by Super User The Kraft Group, the family-owned company that owns Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, the NFL team that plays out of there, have done a technology upgrade around the facility that includes a set of striking, double-sided LED video columns at an attached fan attraction. The Hall at Patriot Place has four 22-feet-tall-by-4.5-feet-wide columns designed to …
Projects: Sport Chek Opens Pair Of Tech-Heavy Flagship Stores November 19, 2015 by Super User Canadian retailer Sport Chek, which sells guess what, has opened a pair of tech-filled flagship stores in Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Square One Shopping Centre, two of the largest and busiest malls in Canada. They are about 25 minutes, to three days, away from each other, depending on greater Toronto traffic. Like an earlier flagship in …
US Lobby Group Warns Ultra HD Screens Can Be Energy Hogs November 19, 2015 by Super User Via Display Daily The emergence of LED-lit LCD displays and the disappearance of plasma displays would probably, reasonably, make end-users think that energy consumption is no longer much on an issue in digital signage deployments. LEDs, after all, are far more energy efficient than the older technologies that were light up flat panel displays. Turns …
Projects: Start-up Testing Virtual Dressing Room Mirror At Polo NYC Flagship November 18, 2015 by Super User Via TechCrunch … A San Francisco-based, VC-funded startup called Oak Labs is running a trial on a slick virtual mirror in the dressing room of the Ralph Lauren Polo NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Instead of the oft-touted augmented reality parlor trick – stand here and we’ll let you virtually try on clothes …
