By Herman Lai, posted Sep 3, 2010 at 9:14 AM, 450 views,

Shanghai Expo Is Lighting Up the LED Technology

This is an indoor illumination in the State Grid Pavilion which is produced by more than one billion LED chips, and we called it the “magic box”.

The stunning Magic Box Pavilion consists of six giant LED walls, included six faces of the cube, each measuring approx. 15m x 15m and features a glass bridge suspended three meters above the floor to facilitate downward viewing for 250 visitors to each presentation.

The building is designed to be a metallic square with a crystal cube embedded inside.

The concept of Magic Box is from Atelier Brückner of Stuttgart, which is to transport visitors to imaginary worlds. The Pavilion clearly depicts the visions in astounding images.

The LED technology is considered the future because of its environmental friendliness and high efficiency.

The LED screens are built from multicolor RGB LEDs and have a pixel pitch of 8mm. The dual HD video show is 100% computer generated. The audio replay equipment consists of an Insynergie 24 audio server player and a total of 21 Fohhn LF-220 digitally controlled line array loudspeakers and 2 subwoofer line arrays.

This illumination takes about five minutes, visitors will learn how the State Grid meets electricity needs of a vast country like China.

Source: Shanghaiist, WSDG, Xinhua