OSI's Designer Series Metalarc Pro-Tech Halogen is alive and well in the U.S. but still not as important as in Europe. Fiber optics Of the many booths displaying fiber-optic technology, Remote Source Lighting International offered perhaps the best breadth of products, ranging from affordable Light Pumps to a prototype illuminator designed to pump out as much light as eight typical illuminators. Controls Dimming controls, personalized controls, digital controls, and integrated controls were very hot topics. In fact, controls of any type enjoyed the attention they have long deserved. With controls, people can play with light and change it.
Light becomes dynamic.
Increased use of controls will probably do more for awareness of lighting than lighting itself can do. Thorn Lighting's Sensa 2 and AtLite's StairLite appeared to be good examples of the integrated controls.