Matrix Lighting for Bicycle…Helmets!

Apple—yes, the iPhone company—are now selling a bicycle helmet. It’s called the Lumos Matrix Urban smart bike helmet, and its prominent feature is a matrix of 77 RGB LEDs on a panel facing rearward. Lumos say the fully addressable 7 × 11 dot-matrix display allows bicyclists to “create [their] own animations and really stand out…

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Hector Fratty

Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.