Filed under: Displays

You know that impossible-to-miss NASDAQ sign on Broadway at 43rd Street in New York City? Yeah, the one that’s 11,000-square feet in size. The Walgreen Company has set out to make that look like child’s play, as it aims to erect a 250,000-pound sign at a three-level emporium in Times Square. Said display will reportedly be used to “raise [the drugstore’s] visibility in New York,” while doubling as a “focal point for it nationally.” This beast will be covered in 12 million LEDs — 17,000 square feet of them, to be exact — and you can only imagine the hardware that will be required behind the scenes to keep this thing up and running. If you just can’t wait until next fall to peep this in person, head southward to the read link and dig in.

[Thanks, Brock]

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Storage

Remember how Sandisk was flirting with read-only, cheap-archival storage based on their new “3D memory’ back in February? Well, it sounds like they’re about to commit. We just received a tip from a SanDisk customer who took a survey about a proposed write-once memory card. The most interesting new piece of information is the price: a 400 photo, 1GB write-once card for a proposed $5.99 as described by our tipster. We can’t vouch for his claims — nevertheless, what he says is consistent with what we’ve heard and certainly makes sense. We’ll break it down for you as we received it:

• The new “memory cards (memory stick)” will be widely available in food, drug, camera, and convenience stores (we already knew that Wal-Mart and Walgreens were involved)
• The new format fits your existing camera
• Large enough to store at least 100 photos per card (does that mean 256MB cards for $2.00 or less?)
• Write-once technology stores your pictures safely for over 100 years (check)
• Less expensive than standard re-writeable memory cards (duh)

No dates were provided in the survey, but at this point, a near-term launch certainly appears imminent.

[Thanks, Chris G]

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

We’ve seen this one coming for quite awhile, but now that the DVD CCA has approved its restrictive download-to-burn scheme, Walgreens is diving in head first to the movie-burning kiosk arena. Reportedly, the company is hoping to “launch DVD-burning kiosks in the next few months,” and it’s said that the firm is already “working with Hollywood studios” to get the technology in stores on the double. According to reports, consumers would be able to create a DVD “in about 15 minutes,” and while no pricing specifics were doled out just yet, Polar Frog [a licensing outfit] Chief Executive Todd Rosenbaum suggested that studios weren’t likely “to discount the DVDs.” Oh, and just in case you were wondering where Blockbuster stood on the matter, spokesman Randy Hargrove stated that the firm “would examine” the situation, and if it “made sense to get into kiosks, it’s clearly something [it] would do.”

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!