By this point, you should fully understand that "
Dubai" and "
world's largest" go
hand-in-hand, so it's quite fitting that said city is receiving the planet's most humongous LED screen. Designed by UAE development company Tameer Holding, the 33-story high display will reportedly be "embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand," where it will stand tall and blast out advertisements to onlookers some 1.5-kilometers away. Dubbed Podium, the building will also house 33 levels of "premium commercial office space, two floors dedicated to retail and four floors for parking." There's no word on when the project will be completed, but we don't suspect Tameer will be dragging its feet in getting this up.
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posted Oct 8th 2008 6:48PM
How much does it cost to advertise on it? lol
Probably about 50 years of my life working.
one dollar per led lit up
In the 90's a majority of Nobel prize-winning Scientists in the chemistry/geo field agreed that at our consumption rate the earth would run out of the resources needed to sustain us before 2070.
And yet, humans are still doing.... this.
@name
My thoughts exactly.
Unfortunately most Engaget readers only care about what the resolution is, how much it will cost to advertise on, how many LEDs are there, can Crysis be output to it or 'will it blend (one LED at a time).
The most important fact is how much power will it use (read waste). All so that some corporation can try to sell us more crap such as tobacco, cosmetics or some gas-guzzling SUV at the expense of costing us this planet.
@GoVegan
You didn't think I was serious when I asked how much it costs to advertise, did you? o.O
Thank God I won't be here in 2070
@ChrisTheFeral.
No, but my point is that this type of question first comes to mind for most people even if said in jest.
@GoVegan
Oh ok, I getcha now :P
Just so you know, generally speaking, LED's are very power efficient.
I also do understand where you are coming from too.
I wonder if it is solar powered?
$700 Billion
People like to talk about cutting costs when other countries are doing something like this. When USA goes into pomp and show, everybody cheers. But when other countries do it, there is talk about consumption, waste, global warming effects, etc.
I remember when Engadget reported about India's TataNano car, there were discussions about pollution and it contributing to global warming, etc, even though it was a 50 mpg car! For a country with less than 5% of the population and using more than 45% of the world's resources (including coal, oil, electricity, minerals), you''re one to talk!!
Was the Eiffel tower a waste when it was built? What about wasting electricity when a lot of American businesses and offices leave their lights and computers on even at night after everybody is gone? I work in Manhattan and almost my whole building remains lit even at night when no one is there!
happy_penguin
Thats what most people think. You won't be there when humans run out of resources ect. But your kids will. And the kids of your kids will. You really hate your kids so much that want them to suffer?
This article is wrong, The world's largest is in Doha's Westbay being built. It's DOUBLE the size of this one!
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=476239
@Kei
YOU ARE WRONG!, one thing is the largest LED screen and another is the largest PROJECTION surface, whatever.
Learn to read my friend.
Shinigami
then dont have any kids
Now that's what I'm talking about. Keep going on, Brothers (I am arabic).
You are also ugly...
Kei...
Get your facts straight....If your dumb enough to know the difference between a projection screen or an LED lit screen then dont be reading Engadget!!!!
For you other people that didn't understand..Dubai is going for largest LED screen, while Doha has (or will have biggest Projection on a building)....
PS stop getting Jealous over Dubai...Every time Us Arabs do something that you haven't done before then you act as if its a Taboo and because of us the world will come to an end...
next year: slightly larger screen coming to dubai...oh wait scratch that 8 slightly larger screens and even cooler floating islands...
islands float?
lol definitely meant man made islands. i wish islands could float then i could play battleships for reals
Wonder what the resolution will be...
Nuclear war?
I dunno, but good luck making an advertisement to go on it which doesn't look pixelated. And good luck finding a computer powerful enough to make that ad...
I wanna play Galaxian on that thing :D
Tetris, please.
that would be so epic.
Porn please.
Shhh, the word is "pron"
Pron from 1.5 kilometers away. Sweet...
Surprise, surprise. With a barrel of oil at around $90, I expected a bigger monitor.
6% of UAEs GDP is Oil. Every Dubai story everywhere has some asshat comment as you, the thing is oil is very little to their country.
How do they keep announcing new stuff when half the city isn't done it, no I'm not kidding go look at some aerial maps or something
Just think how much harder it'll be once the city is "done."
Can I get some EMI to go?
I'm glad I'm not in Dubai. The advertising alone would make me want to move away.
Hacking into this screen would be... the ultimate screen hack.
Seriously. Free Advertising on the World's largest OLED screen!! Your company can get extremely famous!!!!
The screen says "Good Morning Dubai" because the thing would be so damn bright 3 AM would look like morning.
I think I see a dead pixel.
there goes all the concern about saving energy down the drain.
The more energy wasted, the more they earn.
Looking for dead or stuck pixels on that thing is going to suck. I wonder how many pixels have to die before they can exchange it with the manufacturer.
Ah, yes the 'ol minimum defective pixel exchange policy...
But when you are dealing with Apple, one dead pixel is enough to warrant an exchange... because Apple cares, another reason why you should choose iPhone as your mobile device...
And don't forget, Apple makes laptops too!
Uh, no don't.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1721?viewlocale=en_US
@iEye
I don't know whats more "amazing". The fact that you just turned an article about a building with the largest LCD screen into it being about Apple and its iPhone. Or the fact that your fanboyism just clouds your ability to see the facts! (thanks cory for the link)
Wow more and more everyday the world is looking like all those sci-fi movies we've all seen. Bet you in 15 or 20 years cites are going to start looking like how they are in blade runner, (or the relatively new Babylon AD, perfect example of new york)
I thought the Viva Vision Freemont Street Experience in LV was bigger. It has 12.5 million LEDs and is 1500 feet long. The "Thing" in Dubai is only 33 stories which is about 350 feet.
the reason Dubai is doing all this crap is so when the day we finally run out of oil, Dubai will have become the tourist mega capitol and the funds will keep coming in
But is anyone really going to want to visit a place when it has martial law for most people, but the oil barron kings use it like a playground with no rules?! They even have special license plates for the arab royalty, and they cannot be pulled over.
The colossal and beautiful construction, and supposedly beautiful beaches make me want to visit to site see, but the government makes me scared to do so.
But it's not a widescreen!
I guess that's something for the next sheik to do.
The aspect ratio is all wrong to watch anything on it. But then I realized its for futuristic stadium seating in which you lay on your tempurpedic space pillow and watch movies from the moon.
Yeah it's not widescreen, it's tallscreen!
Tilt your head like 90 degrees to the right, Problem solved!
Ah I wondered where the earths money was at!
So Blade Runner takes place in.. Dubai?
Is it going to be run by Windows? I look forward to world's largest BSOD... :P
no, actually its gonna run leopard. i look forward to seeing the largest spinning circle of death in the world. fyi: im not an osx or vista fan, i use a mac but i use ubuntu, windows, and osx on it about equally.
Harrah's in Atlantic City is 46 stories high and wraps completely around the building.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzkrbnByY-k
Yeah, but thats not a "Full" screen, the screen on that building is just strips of LED's on every floor or so, if I remember correctly. This screen actually has every inch of the building covered with pixels making it an actual "Screen" Not saying the Harrah's one is not impressive, just two different things.
You can now see porn miles away!
No you can't... it's in Dubai...
Unless someone hacks it, in which case I bet it would be turned off within minutes.
you're probably right, they are kinda creating a city "artificially" that is to say not letting it grow like the average city does
Arabs are so tacky. They are the world's nouveau riche.
Tacky, tacky screens.
See what fellahin buy when they get money?
this was posted in gizmodo 2 days ago
what happened to my up-to-date engadget???
Didn't your girlfriend tell you that finishing first doesn't mean you're the best?
just think of the heat output from this. I know its LED, but still its got to produce a fair bit of heat.
Suntan from 1.5k away?
Your tax dollars hard at work.
maybe if i were a taxpayer in dubai....but i live in the good ol US of A....where my tax dollars are wasted on other things...but i wont get into that on this great gadget blog....
FAIL, Dubai is tax-free
The UAE does *not* have personal income taxation... no tax wasted.
Or are you implying that your gas money is going there? Because the Emirates are more known for trade and tourism.
i wonder with all the high-risers and all, would the ad still be visible once "everything" is completed? wouldn't all the biggest, largest, tallest be blocking some of the view, in some way, from pretty much all the angles?
Theme song for this bad boy: 'frank's 2000 inch TV' by Weird Al Yankovic
Come on! Let’s just be glad this stuff is going on, in real life instead of some movie. It might not be here in the states like we all want, but this tech will be out there and will eventually make its way here. Let them spent their petro-dollars that just one more cool city we could visit one day, what’s so bad about that?
Let's play halo 3. now we need the speakers to match this screen.
That's where most of the gas money goes...
And not to mention about the ventilation this piece of crap needs, the frequency for replacement, the heat and waste it generates...
Brilliant idea on advertising your brands and showing off while at the same time supporting the destroy of our world~
could that thing GET any bigger???
http://lampshademusic.typepad.com
This reminds me of SimCity a little.
Try to grow a city too fast, and it collapses. Do it too slowly, and people will move out.
How will Dubai look in 50 years?
So many funny comments. This is one of the reasons I visit this site. You guys crack me up. Especially the comment about exchanging the panel because of dead pixels. Imagine how much more enlightening this site would be if there was some way to pass all the highest rated comments along with the article text to RSS readers.
this is awesome however it's WRONG.
One question for engadget, why aren't any of the other Gulf Countries hot news ever mentioned. I for one have submitted a lot of news.
That is NOT the world's biggest screen. That's only 33 floors high compared to the one in Doha which is 600m tall!
Oryx Tower which announced a FULL LED board like this a good two years ago!
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=476239
The Philippe Stark Building with interactive LED screens in Education City.
RFID Mail (first in the world) in Qatar
Or how about the Tornado Tower which is completely covered in animated LEDs?
http://iloveqatar.net/forum/read.php?26,2364
For the ones talking about energy consumption of lights. Flourescent bulbs use less energy if left on 24 hours a day than if they are turned off and on. They also have a longer longevity. Starting them up burns away one of the chemicals used on the starter.
Go the Arabs!!
I think Dubai IS SETTING A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF GET'R DONE and their leadership is better then our leadership! I'm a proud veteran and war sucks almost as bad as a childs hunger. But the fact is, our LEADERS/POLITICIANS.................SUCK!
Every 10-20 years someone makes some dire prediction about worldwide famine/starvation/nuclear winter/overpopulation/energy shortages, etc. And when the dates that they say these things will happen come and go, nobody calls these people out for their mistakes.
So, some Nobel Prize-winning scientists predict the end of the world as we know it in 2070. Yawn.
Time to develop nuclear power plants from sea to shining sea.
WTF! There's a place called "Dubailand"? Awesome!
OH! LED SCREEN! .......
wow it would be so cool if i could play x-box on it lol
this is why the saying "what makes the world go round" is going to stop at each country,continent,island etc.and their won't be a big brother to help anyone out.
aah .. my petrol money.
i wonder what the 3 year extended warrentee costs ?
It will dispaly advertisments kilometers away .... until a tall building is build across the street. :-)
I can see a dead pixel!
Come on that screen is just begging for a game of Tetris!! It just has to be done! I suggest a worldwide Tetris DS tournament to decide who gets to play on it.
Wonder what the resolution will be...
http://www.buycheaphdtvs.com
Funny comment, UAE rich oil, rich people.
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