Guest Post: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions Rich Ventura Bain and Company predicts that by 2020, annual revenues for IoT vendors selling hardware, software and complete solutions will exceed $470 B. […]
Coca-Cola has had a big sign in NYC’s Times Square for a century, and this week the global brand turned on a new iconic sign billed as the world’s first 3D robotic LED billboard. It has 1,715 moving and 245 static LED cubes, with an overall visual footprint of 240 square meters, which in no metric terms, is approximately a lot. […]
I don’t think I’ve seen an LED marquee quite like this – a very tall roadside slab that has the curves of three-dimensional Roman columns on each side, wrapped in LED. It’s an 85-foot tall 10mm sign along the Las Vegas Strip, in front of Caesar’s Palace. It went up in June, I believe, for Simon Properties, which runs the impossible retail maze known as Forum Shops. […]
Cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean International’s Ovation of the Seas took its first voyage in 201g with an experiential video wall on its main esplanade, using nine different pieces of themed, reactive content. The permanent 8’ x 20’ digital art wall reacts to each person passing by, and can be controlled through gestural interactivity. […]
Ever since electronic paper first came out of R&D labs observers have been wondering if the tech could 1) go from black and white to color, and 2) evolve from static to motion graphic images. The first challenge was cleared a few years ago, and now it looks like the second one has also been cleared. […]
Here’s a nice example of a mixed media digital and analog signboard, one of two put up in the revitalized Waterside District in Norfolk, Virginia. The 23-foot-high boards are 10mm pitch units done by SNA Displays. “This was an interesting and rewarding project for us,” says Jason Helton, executive vice president for SNA Displays. […]
Spotted on Linkedin this video wall going up in the St. Louis, MO-area head office lobby of WWT, a $9B annual revenue company that does technology & supply chain solutions for organizations around the globe. No details on what or who involved with is. Very nice, though! […]
Auto dealerships in larger urban centres are getting necessarily smaller – a simple function of saving on the high cost pf premium retail space. The new Volkswagen store in The Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham, UK is not a whole bunch bigger than a clothing retailer – relying heavily on technology to tell the brand story and help potential buyers make decisions. […]
Other people can engage in the argument over whether Division 1 college athletes in the United States should be paid, and based on social media posts, it’s already evident the new University of Texas Longhorns football locker room has people griping about money being spent on bells and whistles, instead of paying players or putting funds into academic programs. […]
Scala has circulated a good case study about the work it has been doing with systems integrator partner DOBIT for the European lingerie retailer Hunkemo?ller, particularly in flagship high street stores like the one in the video. […]
I’m changing up the podcast a little bit this week. I have my own rule that I want to talk to a bunch of other companies first before I talk to one a second time. I’ve also made this podcast about people and not issues. […]
I have mixed feelings about this new “megaboard” video wall at the security clearance area at Vienna, Austria’s international airport. On the plus side, it’s pretty damn clever to turn the facade for the screening area into an out of home advertising opportunity. […]
The massive Dubai Mall in guess where has just turned on a new OLED video wall that breaks a bunch of records for sheer scale. It is 50 meters wide by 14 meters tall, fronting the aquarium attraction in the mall. The digital canvas is 1.7 billion pixels. […]
Content is a factor, of course, but’s generally kind of amazing how good a 10mm pitch outdoor LED sign can look these days. This is an upgraded LED board that replaced an older digital display used by Aeropostale to advertise its brand outside a Times Square retail store. The new one is for LINE FRIENDS, an Asian retailer built around sticker characters. […]
A project doesn’t need to be big and expensive to be well done and effective. Here’s a simple but well executed tourism application that adds digital to an attractions brochure rack. The borough of Pendle in the UK created a visitor information point in the café area of retailer Boundary Mill’s flagship store outlet, based in Colne, Lancashire. […]
