LEDs make a stand in Frankfurt

Dec. 7, 2007
There was no shortage of LEDs at the biennial IAA motor show in Germany.
The creative use of LED technology at car shows is becoming a trademark around the world, and September's IAA event, aka the Frankfurt Motor Show, was no exception.

With nearly one million visitors at the show, car makers made creative use of LED technology to differentiate their booths. High resolution LED screens were mixed with lower-resolution displays and partially transparent fixtures.

Several companies used sophisticated moving displays that separated into individual sections. BMW had an arrangement of ten vertical panels that moved up and down in a piston-like motion, or came together to form a single large screen.

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This article was published in the November/December 2007 issue of LEDs Magazine.

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