Dark shades like black or gray conceal dirt and stains. For occasional joyrides, lighter, fresher colors will show less wear. Lighter colors can also deflect heat in warmer climates. If resale is a ...

People want customizable colored lights in their car's interior, right? Many top carmakers seem to think so. Nissan, Ford, GM, Porsche, and others offer ambient lighting settings that can be adjusted ...

Let’s be honest about it: the interior lights currently installed in our cars are pretty much useless, simply because finding something dropped on the floor at night is still impossible without ...

OSIRE® E3731i intelligent RGB LED enables creation of dynamic color and motion effects across hundreds of LEDs The intelligent RGBi uses a new and license-free Open System Protocol for communication ...

In-car ambient lighting is a relatively new idea in the auto industry. Although customers have for decades tried to bring their own unique touch on how the interior of their cars looks like at night, ...

This circuit is much more modest, but certainly still worth the effort. It provides a high quality interior light delay. This is a feature that is included as standard with most modern cars, although ...

Automotive interior lighting does not suffer from the lifetime issues that can justify light emitting diodes (LEDs) in other applications. Power consumption usually is not an issue either, although ...

Not so long ago, car interior lighting consisted of central and side headliner lights, complemented by low-level ambient lighting located mainly in the cockpit area. Now we are seeing LEDs in a ...

If you know anything about building your own computer, you’ll know there’s an entire industry dedicated to integrating bright (but useless) customizable RGB (red, green, blue) LED lights into the ...