Opto & Laser Europe January 2004

A German firm has scooped almost One-third of all the awards on offer at the 2003 International Laser Display Association (ILDA) conference in Brussels.

LOBO Electronic, an Aalenbased firm that specializes in creating stunning light shows, has been awarded 12 of the 40 prizes on offer, including four first prizes.

LOBO won first prizes in the categories of indoor show, beam module, graphics and animation for ist entries "Mystere", "Neo", "Dirty Mary" and "Dino". It also received recognition for an outdoor show that it performed in Budapest in August 2002 to celcbrate a national holiday in Hungary.

LOBO says that the development of its LACON-5 laser multimedia workstation has been critical to its success. The unit, which was launched on the market about 18 months ago, can control up to 16 independent laser projectors and enables the display of high-resolution MPEG videos and animation.

Every year at its annual conference ILDA presents "Oscars" to the companies that it judges to have given the most spectacular laser lightshows around the world . The 2003 awards ceremony took place in the Brussels PlazaTheatre at the end of November.