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Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby

The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns  that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. […]

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Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:25 AM

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An LED Video Wall That Hand-Cranks Into Place

I didn’t know Belgium’s display giant Barco now had super-thin, flexible LED displays, but the company has tweeted out a video show how fast and easy it is to hang a strip of 11mm pixel pitch LED in an open area (it is marketed as 10mm, but is 10.83mm, for those keeping score).  The product was launched at InfoComm in June. […]

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Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:56 AM

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16:9: Lock Down Your iPad Kiosk, Or This Sort Of Thing Happens

If your business is putting consumer tablets out in public areas, it’s really important you take the necessary steps to ensure the device is locked to only offer up the experience that you intended. If you don’t, you get bemused people who know their way around software and devices, who see if they are indeed locked down. And if they’re not, they leave behind their mischief. […]

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Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:18 PM

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Projects: Malaysian Mega-Mall Updates Its 60+ Screen Network

The giant Utama 1 Shopping Centre in suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is either the 4th or 6th or 7th largest mall on the planet, with 5 million square feet of space and a lot of people coming in the doors each day. The mall operator has been running a mall-wide digital signage network for the last 10 years, selling display “airtime” to mall tenants and 3rd-party advertisers. […]

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Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:38 AM

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16:9: Saudi British Bank Adds 60+ Screens In Riyadh Banking Center

The Saudi British Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has added a series of displays around its premiere banking center on Tahlia, the city’s high street. There are four video walls around the three-level branch, including a 4 by 3 curved wall. There are also tablets ands regular displays around the branch, intended to create a memorable customer journey, and touchscreen pods along the ATM area. […]

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Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:03 PM

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16:9: Norwich City FC Gets Shape-Shifting, Pivoting LED Board

This is clever – a stadium LED board that changes orientation based on a schedule and type of content, and pivots so that it’s viewable from different angles around the grounds. […]

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Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:41 AM

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Projects: Giant, Two-Sided, Pivoting Video Wall Lights Up in Scotland

Via Display Daily I like the multi-purpose thinking behind this huge 32-screen video wall at the University of West Scotland in Paisley, near Glasgow. The UK-based systems integrator Saville was charged with bringing video wall and interactive technology solutions to a new,  extended reception area in a campus building. […]

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Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM

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16:9: Size Matters In Digital Signage

Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi To get the most out digital signage in retail settings, keep two key words in mind: Size Matters. Stuart Armstrong That doesn’t mean bigger is better. What matters is using screen sizes that suit the setting, dynamics and purpose. […]

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Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:54 AM

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EventBoard Raises $13.5 M To Build Up Digital Meeting Room Sign Business

I’ve written often about the seemingly pedestrian but dead-perfect application of digital meeting room signs, and how the marketplace seems to be all over the things. Exhibit A – Sixteen:Nine’s companion site – MeetingRoomSigns.biz – now has more than 40 products listed, which is at least 5X of a year ago. The site generates 1,000s of page views a month. […]

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Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:31 PM

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Enter The AV Nerd Nonagon On 9/9

This looks and reads like a hardcore pro AV nerdfest – a networking and education event next month in Anaheim with the call to action of traveling to the 9th dimension at the NitWit Nonagon. Ummm … OK??? […]

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Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:33 AM

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Projects: 280 Foot Wide LED Wall Lights Up In World Trade Center’s New Mall

The retail component of the new World Trade Center in New York finally, formally, opens next week, and the 16 acre site will include some 5,000 square feet of LED. The signature installation is a 280-foot wide 4mm pixel pitch LED wall running along a concourse, driven by 12 sync’d HD outputs from players that will make for one very wide and long billboard. […]

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Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:05 AM

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Digital Signage Goes To The Kitchen

One of the guys at Rise Vision is so steeped in the digital signage business he has a slick interactive display up and running in his kitchen. Mat Meiers, the company’s lead creative designer, designed a screen layout to display calendar events, grocery lists, to do lists and family photos in his Kansas City-area kitchen. […]

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Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:14 AM

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16:9: Orlando Airport Investing Big On Passenger-Facing Digital Signage

Orlando International Airport continues to invest heavily in digital displays to improve the look and experience. The Orlando Sentinel has a story up about a $146 million makeover underway, and targeted to be complete by late next year, that will include a band of tiled displays behind the ticket counters at the departures level. […]

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Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:54 AM

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How Local Businesses Can Use Digital Signage To Attract Pokémon Go Fans

Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud If you were ever a fan of Pokémon as a kid or teenager, you’ll know about Pokémon Go, a new app developed by Niantic. Pokémon Go creates an augmented reality experience (something virtual appearing in the real world), to allow you to chase Pokémon characters all over town, to lure them, capture them and train them for battle. […]

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Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 4:17 PM

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Digital Signage Gets Hosed Down

Whether this is better termed a kiosk than digital signage could be debated endlessly, but what’s more interesting here is how a company has figured out a way to make projected capacitive touchscreen technology to work reliably in the crazily harsh environment of a car wash. […]

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:23 PM

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