The Clay Paky B-EYE Triumphs at LDI 2013: "Best Debuting Lighting Product"Another success for the new Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE. The spectacular LED moving head the Italian manufacturer launched at PLASA London 2013 has won another award in addition to the one it won at the London event. It was presented with an LDI Award during the annual trade fair which took place November 22 - 24 in Las Vegas. The A.leda B-EYE K20 was given the coveted title of "Best Debuting Lighting Product." In recent years this award has been assigned to products destined for sure future success, such as -- the Clay Paky Sharpy in 2010 (Honorable Mention) and Sharpy Wash in 2012. Marian Sandberg, content director of Live Design, explained the reasons for the award: "The B-Eye is an innovative LED fixture that works as a wash, beam, and effect light. It can switch from a diffuse wash to parallel beams, and features individual LED control enabling controllable microbeams. Adding colors and moving patterns, it generates countless kaleidoscopic projections." Clay Paky's Francesco Romangnoli and A.C.T Lighting's Bob Gordon, Brian Dowd, and George Masek took the stage to receive the award. Francesco Romagnoli's off-the-cuff comment to a very enthusiastic engaged audience was striking: "Our thanks go to LDI, to our US partner and to our friends at A.C.T Lighting. This award is for our R&D department. There are 25 people who work every day in Clay Paky to bring new products and new ideas to the market, with the aim of being innovative. When you choose a product to buy, buy the product you like, buy from the manufacturer you prefer to buy from, but please buy originals, not copies!" Gordon, A.C.T Lighting's CEO, was brief but effective: "[The A.leda B-EYE] is so damn cool!" The company notes it expects a very "bright" future for this light, which it says is radically changing the way users perceive and interpret LED show lighting. The video of the B-EYE award ceremony can be seen by pasting this into your browser http://youtu.be/xFwdVmUY7dA or at the URL below. See Clay Paky and A.C.T Lighting at PLASA Focus: Nashville, February 18 - 19, 2014. 
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