Logitech will showcase its new Rally Bar 2 at Midwich’s Tech Xpo 2026, taking place on 21–22 October 2026 at Ascot Racecourse. Launched on 8 October, the next-generation all-in-one video bar solution will be demonstrated at the Midwich event, giving visitors a first-hand look at Logitech’s latest approach to hybrid meeting experiences. Celebrating its 15th year, Tech Xpo brings together leading technology brands, hands-on demonstrations and specialist expertise across AV, workplace collaboration, security, audio, LED, retail and live production. More than 70 brands will be represented at this year’s event, with workplace collaboration, AI and automation, sustainability and smart spaces…
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Illustrations, projection and lighting are converging at Finland’s historic National Theatre for a production of the children’s classic ‘Puluboi and Poni’, with Hippotizer Media Servers from Green Hippo – an ACT Entertainment company – providing the visual core. Lighting and video designer Ville Virtanen transformed story illustrations into a constantly evolving theatrical environment. Controlled from a single grandMA console, Hippotizer enables Virtanen to manipulate individual elements of the artwork alongside the lighting, creating a unified visual workflow. The production’s visual identity was developed with illustrator Emmi Jormalainen, using some imagery from the original books and new artwork. Virtanen animated the…
Panasonic returns to Signal Festival as its projection technology partner for the second consecutive year, supporting artists and technical teams in bringing digital artworks to life across Prague. Taking place from 15 to 18 October, the festival’s 14th edition features 21 installations that connect contemporary art, digital technology and architecture. Alongside projectors from its established portfolio, Panasonic is introducing its new PT-RQ45 4K projectors and Beeblade Pluto media players from HIVE Media Control at this year’s festival. The PT-RQ45’s 42,000-lumen brightness supports projection onto large façades, while HIVE’s technology provides synchronised video playback across multiple projectors. Signal Festival’s varied…
ON Creative Visual Tech Provider has completed the audiovisual design and integration for Nubank Arte Lab, Brazil’s largest permanent immersive art space. The new 2,700 sq m venue is located within Conjunto Nacional, a landmark modernist mixed-use complex on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo. At the heart of Nubank Arte Lab is an extensive audiovisual platform designed and integrated by ON. It combines 29 1DLP WUXGA projectors across two immersive projection rooms, an 84 sq m transparent LED façade, an 8,352-point 3D LED sculpture and a mirrored infinity room, together with digital signage and AV systems for corporate spaces. Designed…
Immersive technology is often associated with individual experiences; think headsets, personal screens and digital environments designed for one user at a time. At Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, Holovis took a different approach. Visitors to the ApolloDomes installation were invited to step together into a fully immersive environment, surrounded by light, sound and storytelling. Inside the large-scale projection dome, visuals extended across the field of view, unfolding across the curved interior to create a sense of movement, presence and scale. Crucially, it was a shared experience. Families and groups encountered the same stories together, reacting in real time not through individual…
Today’s workplace is more fluid than ever. Teams gather in person one hour, collaborate with colleagues across continents the next, and often need meeting spaces that can change just as quickly as the agenda itself. At its Pune office in India, SailPoint Technologies has embraced that flexibility, creating an intelligent collaboration environment powered by Kramer that supports meetings of different sizes and formats. Founded in 2005, SailPoint Technologies is a global leader in enterprise identity security, helping organisations protect digital identities across increasingly complex IT environments. With collaboration playing an important role in its global operations, SailPoint required meeting spaces…
The education system in the UK is something with which successive governments have been unable to resist tampering in recent decades. And yet, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) international student assessment (Pisa) England’s teenagers are outperforming their peers in most countries outside Asia in maths, reading and science. In fact, England has moved into the top 10 of the international rankings. Perhaps interestingly, England’s biggest improvement came in science along with maths – the much-criticised teaching of STEM subjects. Clearly, education must continue to evolve in keeping with societal and technological developments, but does change…
Designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, Finlandia Hall was commissioned as Helsinki’s concert and congress building back in 1962. During a major renovation of the building’s infrastructure between 2022 and 2025, the idea emerged to open Finlandia Hall more widely to locals and tourists. ‘Visions of Alvar Aalto’, an immersive exhibition detailing Aalto’s creativity and influence on Finnish architecture and design, was conceived to give visitors a new reason to visit Finlandia Hall while drawing greater attention to its architectural heritage. A Genelec Smart IP loudspeaker system was selected to support the evolving exhibition environment with flexible, high-quality audio. Finlandia…
In 1988, jazz musician Chet Baker spent his final night at Hotel Prins Hendrik, a centuries-old three-star hotel on the Prins Hendrikkade in the heart of Amsterdam. A memorial plaque on the outside wall marks the spot, and each year, the hotel holds an event in his memory. It is a building with music running through its history. That connection continues with Prince Charming Bar & Kitchen, the hotel’s recently reimagined restaurant. Formerly known as De Kroonprins, the space was relaunched as Prince Charming, a bar and restaurant with capacity for around 60 guests. Prince Charming has a menu centred…
As the highest-grossing stage musical of all time, ‘The Lion King’ has been seen by a global audience of over 100 million people. The German version of the production has become the nation’s most successful musical show, having welcomed upwards of 700,000 spectators each year since opening at the Stage Theatre im Hafen in Hamburg in December 2001. As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, producer and live entertainment company, Stage Entertainment, has undertaken a significant technical upgrade to ensure the production continues to deliver the same impact to future audiences. A key part of this upgrade is a comprehensive KV2 Audio sound system designed to support the…