This is the new Technology Center of Excellence that connectivity and IT services firm CenturyLink has opened in Monroe, Louisiana – with 37,000 square feet of nanotechnology glass that tints automatically and three big NanoLumens wrap-around displays inside. […]
Here’s a very nice, very different take on using LED boards along highways. Instead of endless ads for lawyers and auto dealers and casinos, this vertical LED totem that just lit up in Almaty, Kazakhstan runs traffic information. The 10 mm pixel pitch unit, installed by Billboard Video LED Engineering, is 7 meters high by two meters wide. […]
The central rail station in one of the UK’s largest cities – Birmingham – is having a trio of giant eye-shaped LED ad boards installed – there to message to passengers and pay their way through advertising contracts. The redeveloped New Street station will be the first in the UK to feature these sorts of displays, which will be sold by Ocean Outdoor. […]
The blending of LED and display technologies and companies continues. Specialty, high-end display panel maker Planar Systems has been acquired by the Chinese high-end indoor LED firm Leyard Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. The companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement, that would see a U.S. […]
The Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York’s Time Square has put a massive 13 ft by 12 foot LED screen in a glassed part of the facade to pull in tourists passing by on 42nd Street. The LED is a big NanoLumens unit, running content via Scala software based on a concept developed by the guys at OpenEye Global. […]
UK-based Crystal Display Systems has launched an interesting spin on LED curtain walls – tighter resolution windows that can be cut to any size and used on shops or inside buildings as decorative dividers. The transparent LED windows are made up of horizontal slats of LEDs that when all lit up can produce decent looking full-motion video displays. […]
Photo: Daily Mail A woman walking down a street in suburban London sidewalk was seriously injured earlier today when a four ton, 20-ft wide LED billboard run by ClearChannel pulled free from a building wall. The woman was hit by the huge metal billboard hoarding after it broke free, and fell about 20 feet, reports the Daily Mail. […]
Tight pixel pitch LED video walls, built for indoor use, have been showing up at trade shows like the big sign and broadcast shows for at least a couple of years. But Nanolumens has for several years been the only well-known company showing indoor product. That’s changing. […]
