Last night I attended an informal lighting event focused on the Kim Lighting Warp9 area and garage luminaire. For those of you under a lighting rock, this is an LED based area light.
Close inspection of the product (or just browsing the literature) revealed they are using small hooded arrays to direct the light in the desired direction. Certainly and new take on area lighting.
I found the product quite to be uncomfortable to look at (up close), but I quickly remember that I have never enjoyed looking directly at the output of an area light. I’ve seen the photometrics in action on few projects and found them to be on par with the rest of the industry (LED and HID). Now we just have to wait for the price to drop.