LED Head In ISE Booth Will Have Seemed Familiar To Ohio Convention-Goers

February 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes

I’ll never know how I could be all through Hall 8 last week at ISE, and didn’t see this directly – but I didn’t. I heard about it, though – a giant LED head that one might politely say was “inspired” by a strikingly similar one done at the Columbus, Ohio convention center.

It was in the booth of an LED display company called Ledeca, which is based in Istanbul.

The original went in at the convention center in Columbus in late 2017, with the head made from thin, custom strips of LED developed by Sansi (SNA). Using thing strips or slats allowed the designers to realize the contours of a face and head.

I would imagine the Sansi guys – some who were at ISE – were a little frustrated to see the concept appropriated.

I’ve no idea if these sorts of concepts can be protected in some way, but you’d at least like to see the imitation go even slightly in a different direction. But this was a clone.

The argument could, of course, be: “So what?” And it is likely that for every person who knew this was “inspired” by another job, another 1,000 at the show would think was original.

All that aside – it can make for a striking visual.

 

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