Advanced Computer Displays : The future of?

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
The future is closer than you think, <a target="_blank" href="http://cnn.com"&gt;CNN<a> has news of two new inventions, which look set to revolutionize modern computer displays, by simply eliminating the need for them.

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In a museum in Tampere, Finland, Ismo Rakkolainen's fog machine conjures up the Mona Lisa on an invisible sheet of water particles.

Thousands of miles away in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate student passes his hand through an image of a DNA strand produced -- apparently out of thin air -- by a modified video projector.

The two inventions represent the latest front in advanced computer displays -- eliminating the screen altogether.

While unlikely to replace the desktop computer monitor, so-called walk-through displays could eventually be put to use in product showrooms, museums, and military training facilities.

The full report:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/15/videoscreen.air.reut/index.html

Comments

  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    3D Television, here we come... anybody want to walk into your TV image and be on set with Kristin Kreuk? ;)
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited September 2003
    I'm up for that. I'll be her Superman any day.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Spinner said
    I'm up for that. I'll be her Superman any day.

    ;D;D

    You're not the only one who wants that job!
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited September 2003
    GHoosdum said
    3D Television, here we come... anybody want to walk into your TV image and be on set with Kristin Kreuk? ;)

    OMFG!! :thumbsup: or Jenna Jamison and Sunrise Adams in a scene together.

    Now THAT would be sweet!! ;D
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited September 2003
    No, I want a holodeck for me an Ms. Kreuk. :D And for Britney Spears, and Natalie Portman, and Katie Holmes, and Angie Harmon, and Rachael Leigh Cook. Oh yeah, holodecks would be sweet.
    GHoosdum said
    3D Television, here we come... anybody want to walk into your TV image and be on set with Kristin Kreuk? ;)
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