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Infrared-LEDs from Osram enable face recognition in smartwatches

The two smallest biometric identification products to date

The more we rely on our digital companions, the more important the security of sensitive data on our smartphone or smartwatch becomes. Various methods of biometric identification provide the user with security and form a reliable "lock" ...

New, robust LED extends the day

A high-power Osram LED provides long lifetime, brightness and efficiency values in flashlights and work lamps

If the evening walk is a little longer than expected, or if the day's goal set on the construction site, such as building a new shop, has not yet been reached, the setting sun can become a problem.Flashlights and work lamps improve safety for ...

Absen LED free-standing centrepiece

Korean shopping mall sets new retail standard

Situated in Northwest Seoul, Starfield Goyang is the third and latest Starfield mall to open on the outskirts of the South Korean capital, and Starfield’s new shining star. As the largest indoor shopping theme park in Korea’s ...

Self-luminous pixels for a new display generation

How does a display become flexible?

There are videos on the internet that can make one marvel at technology. For example, a smartphone is casually bent around the arm or a thin-film display is rolled in all directions and with almost every diameter. From the user's point of view, ...

Ross Burling is Absen's new Business Development Manager - UK, Ireland & Nordics

His focus will lay on OOH, Retail, Sports and Rental markets

Absen Europe has announced the appointment of Ross Burling to the newly created role of business development manager – UK, Ireland and Nordics. Ross will focus on OOH, Retail, Sports and Rental markets, working hand-in-glove with Absen’s ...

Video-controlled LED-lighting for an optimum energy efficiency

Nowadays warehouses and transshipment halls are more often equipped with LED-lighting.

DIVIS now offers high savings potential and at the same time an outstanding video image quality with an intelligent control of LED-lighting over the video system.

Vecto Recessed Spotlights

Seamless transition of luminaire and ceiling

Vecto is now also available in small size. Thanks to its reticent, timeless design, Vecto ensures a seamless transition of luminaire and ceiling. ...

Navo Recessed Spotlights

Appealing and economical aisle area lighting

Our further development of Navo is now even more efficient and hence sets new standards for appealing and economical aisle area lighting Equally suited to Food & Non-food. Larger sections of shelves can also be efficiently and economically ...

Bit Spotlight

Economical and efficient spotlight

The surface-mounted spotlight Bit is a very economical and efficient spotlight. The neutral, unobtrusive use of shapes makes it possible for Bit to be used in a variety of ways. ...

Suno Spotlight

High performance luminaire with clean design

Suno is a high performance luminaire with a clean, timeless design. It compact structure with efficient thermo management combines a high lumen output with a harmonious integration into the architecture. ...

Navo Spotlights

Appealing and economical aisle area lighting

Our further development of Navo is now even more efficient and hence sets new standards for appealing and economical aisle area lighting Equally suited to Food & Non-food. Larger sections of shelves can also be efficiently and economically ...

Absen Europe appoints Hans Christian Stucken as Senior Marketing Executive

Absen Optoelectronics has appointed Hans Christian Stucken as Senior Marketing Executive for its European operation. Based at Absen’s European headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany, Stucken has assumed the lead role in the European ...

Absen strengthens market commitment with new Advertising Director Hire

Absen has announced the appointment of Nacho Pérez Borjabad as the company’s new Senior Director Advertising Market for Europe

M. Pérez will be based in the company’s European Headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany. He will be responsible for further developing the brand’s presence in the European advertising market, focusing on client solutions ...

Get great accent lighting for retail stores with LED

Accent lighting for retail stores can help highlight certain parts of a store or provide a specific mood

LED lights in particular make excellent accent lamps with their longevity and color options. Need help to get started? Here are several ideas to help you plan out your accent lighting. Visibility or Appearance When first picking out proper ...

Individual light scenes created by regulation of the colour temperature

In shop installations various possibilities are available to present products and create illuminated product worlds

Shall light and illumination be adjusted to personal moods or is a clear light needed, without shadows? The individual lighting preferences and requirements can be easily fixed by the continuous change of the light temperature. This might be ...

LD 8020 – Convincing Continuous Rows

The lighting range LD8020 ideally combines seamless light installations with LED-technology for your Point of Sale

Durable, efficient and particularly easy to install.All benefits of our lighting offer at a glance:Mounted light with SMD LED, integrated driver and internal mini connector system for mains connection.Maximum 10 lights can be adapted by direct ...

Floating light for the POS

Offering an optimal illumination

Special brillant lighting was developed by ELEKTRA, introducing the newly developed clip-on luminaire for "aluboard" wall installation rail from Shop Systems GmbH. The hidden electrification of the luminaire produces the picture of a ...

"The store windows are our calling card"

Interview with Nicole Werner, Visual Designer at fashion house L+T in Osnabrück, Germany

The design of the German Fashion House L+T is single sourced from the store window all the way to print advertisements. Nicole Werner, who was recently presented with the Award for Best Visual Marketing for her work, is in charge of design at the ...

New retail lighting solutions from Luxonic at RDE 2015

From an extensive array of luminaires designed and developed for the retail environment, Luxonic is offering some new solutions for lighting retail areas at Retail Design Expo ‘15. Following the success of the Alterlite display ...

The Elegance of Light

Ansorg illuminates the Europe-wide first Hyundai flagship store in Frankfurt

Directly on the Frankfurt car dealership mile Hyundai Motor Deutsch-land has opened its Europe-wide first flagship store. The 2,466 square metre display area which covers two floors was configured in accordance with the Hyundai design newly ...

Better light and a 40 percent energy saving

The unique LED luminaire Navo from Ansorg at Booths new supermarket in Barrowford

In early December the 30th supermarket of the rapidly growing food chain Booths opened in Barrowford, Lancashire. During a visit to Euroshop in March 2014 Graham Booth, one the fifth generation of this family concern, saw the Navo demonstration, and ...

Nualight launches Arc, world’s lightest LED high bay

Smarter design for large-scale industrial and retail applications

High bay lighting is undergoing a revolution, from energy-intensive, unhealthy, cumbersome and “dumb” lighting to intelligent LED. Nualight’s new Arc LED high bay is leading the drive. The smarter design of Nualight’s Arc ...

Attractive LED lighting accents for Apollo Optik in Munich

The new Apollo Optik store in Munich’s Olympia shopping centre creates a bright, inviting and dynamic effect due to a new lighting concept from Ansorg. The store with its good 180 square metres provides not only a clearly arranged and ...

Bringing a glint to eyes in the new Borussia Dortmund (BVB) Fan World

Borussia Dortmund is banking on an innovative LED lighting solution by Zumtobel

Borussia Dortmund's recently opened "BVB Fan World" is a paean of love to this German football brand and a unique voyage of discovery for the supporters of this traditional club. Zumtobel has implemented an efficient LED lighting ...

Celebrating the 250th SPAR store upgraded with blaze lighting

First major LED retrofit in the convenience sector in Europe

Great SPAR stores create great customer experiences and that is why the Blaze LED upgrade programme delivered by Cross Group using innovative technology by retail lighting specialists Nualight has been so successful. Cross Group is ...

Europe’s largest Karl Lagerfeld flagship store just opened on London’s Regent Street

Innovative lighting control by Ansorg

After the successful launch of the first European concept store in St.Germain (Paris) and the opening of stores in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Munich, Beijing and Shanghai and other locations, the awardwinning retail concept for the KARL LAGERFELD ...

Modern Lighting Design: Trends by Lighting Designers

Light, the all-rounder creates ambience and accents like no other means

This year’s EuroShop revealed how retailers can put their products in the right light in the future. Lighting designers and shopfitters skillfully vied for the attention of the expert audience and showed the trends of the upcoming ...

Zumtobel at light+building 2014

Individual and adaptable lighting solutions in times of change

The world is constantly changing. Accordingly, the requirements made on people's living and working environments are also changing at ever increasing speed. New technologies open up new design options in this respect. On the occasion of ...

"The overall concept needs to be right"

Interview with Hendrik Lenfers from guttenberger + partner

Lighting Design has many different facets; one of them is illuminated signage. It is meant to create emphasis and stand out. It is especially important not to cross the line between tastefully striking and tacky and gaudy. Right before this ...

Lextar to Release Next-generation Ultra-Slim Direct-lit LED Panel Light

Lextar Electronics Corp. will release an ultra slim direct-lit panel light. Only 28mm in thickness, this new product is free from the stereotypically bulky exterior of its comparable products. Besides, it minimized the number of LED thanks to ...

NAVO using LED technology will set the standards for aisle areas in the future

Goods on shelves seen in a completely new light

The new development NAVO is trend-setting and innovative in several respects. With it Ansorg brightens up an important area at the point of sale: the aisle area. With the novel LED luminaire, the light now really gets on the merchandise, since NAVO ...

The efficient allrounder in the salesroom

VECTO making use of LED technology takes on all lighting tasks

A new spotlight now takes over task of the lighting direction in the salesroom: the recessed LED luminaire VECTO is gladly seen everywhere since, thanks to variable design variants and reticent, timeless design, VECTO is uniquely versatile and ...

Hera’s innovative LED panel luminaire for state-of-the-art shop lighting

Hera has expanded its range of revolutionary LED recessed luminaires

The LED strip lighting – LED IN-Stick SF is Hera’s new addition to its successful product range with the same name. The SF product name highlights two special features of the model: its ultra slim design (S) and extremely uniform planar ...

Leading expertise with a compact design

Flat recessed LED spots - AR 35-LED & AR 68-LED

The Hera AR-LED product range has now been completed by two new high-performance designs, specially developed for space-saving installation in shops and showrooms. Whether as accent or furniture lighting, the AR 35-LED is setting new standards ...

Hera presents creative new developments at the EuroShop 2014

Dynamic White LED for softly changing lighting moods

When it comes to creating LED lighting, comfort is becoming an increasingly important factor in modern lighting design. Lighting solutions which offer both outstanding energy efficiency and the option of being able to dynamically adjust a ...

Osram Opto Semiconductors wins prestigious Product Innovation Award

Third consecutive award for the high-tech company from the US publication Architectural SSL Magazine

The US professional lighting journal Architectural SSL Magazine has selected Osram Opto Semiconductors for the third time in a row as winner of the Product Innovation Award in the category Market Leadership. Each year since 2011, the magazine ...

Edeka E-Center Kappe in Seelze: More value. Less energy.

LED technology from Ansorg achieves energy consumption values of less than 10 W/m²

Innovation pays off: with a comprehensive Ansorg lighting concept exactly adapted to the particular areas and requirements the newly opened E-Center near Hanover achieves sensationally low energy consumption values of less than 10 W/m². At the ...

Osram Topled: Brighter and longer lasting LED light for buses and trains

White feel-good light on the move

The new generation of the Mini Topled and Topled classics from Osram Opto Semiconductors produce light of a particularly high quality. The successful standard packages have been retained but now provide pleasant white light in a new brightness ...

Zumtobel wins two “red dot design awards”

Prize-winning LED luminaires: SFERA and DISCUS Evolution

Two Zumtobel products have won the “red dot award: product design 2013”: the SFERA free-standing LED luminaire and the DISCUS Evolution LED spotlight system could not fail to impress the jury thanks to their outstanding product ...

Light Disc COB LED Opal by Elektra

Even light distribution for GX 53 lampholders

„Light Disc COB LED Opal“ belongs to the latest generation of GX 53 lamps and is based on COB LED technology. The lamp generates a high light output, a totally even light distribution and has a long lamp life. With only 4 W power ...

The Osram Brilliant Mix concept – all under control

Brilliant Mix Universal controller simplifies electronic control

The Brilliant Mix LED color mixing concept from Osram Opto Semiconductors is now even easier to control thanks to the new Brilliant Mix Universal controller from Elec-Con technology. The controller is available in a standard version – ...