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Paintable LCDs
frambooz writes "Nature Magazine has an article about a team from the Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands, who discovered a way to create 1 layer paintable LCD-screens. It can be used on glass and plastic already, and fabric in the near future. 'Homes of the future could change their wallpaper from cream to cornflower blue at the touch of a button, says Dirk Broer. His team has developed paint-on liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that offer the technology. (...) The technique could create giant TV screens, digital billboards and walls that change colour. Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.' Which leads to another problem: with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?" There's also an AP article.
I'm looking forward to painting cars with this...then EVERYONE can have flames on their SUV.
...with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?
Well, Windows XP could go on my wife's butt. They're both unnecessarily big and bloated, and despite what some people say, they can be trimmed down with some work.
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Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.' Which leads to another problem: with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?"
Lets see...
Front of pants, PKUnZip
Back of pants, DownloadAccelerator
options are endless....
sig--we don't need no goddamn sig
with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?
[Tycho voice]
On my wang. Everything... on... my... wang.
[/Tycho voice]
--saint
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Just a general rule, I would recommend not placing any M$ product near your anus.
Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.'
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Just great, the next MS email virus is going to spam my shirt sleeve with "--> IDIOT HERE -->" text to let everyone know I'm not using a secure email client
What if you could hack somebody's suit. You could way beyond puting a "Kick Me" sign on their back, you could make it display the image of a naked body, sorta making them look like they are naked at first glance (just wait till they stand up to give their speach first hehehe) or put a scrolling marquee on their back saying anything you want. Put "Kiss it" on their butt. You could put a woman's bra size on boobs, or target circles, or "Silicon inside" or "They ARE real, and they're spectacular"
Oh the endless possibilities.
It's a great idea, but I seriously doubt that it would work in reality.
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It might be possible to get it to work for a fixed view point, but as far as all round invisibility goes, it's unlikely.
Here (picture link) is why. If the person in the middle is covered in this paintand has cameras looking behind him to control what is shown on the suit and the other two are looking at the same point, then we can see that the man on the left would expect to see part of a tree and the man on the right would expect to see part of a house.
So what happens? I've no idea. If there was just one onlooker and we knew where he was, then a more realistic picture could be shown.
Don't hold your breath in other words...
Roger
(That doesn't make your parent post a troll though)
Do you have any better hostages?
Well, I know where the e-mail SPAM would appear... :-)
"I told you never to call me on this wall! This is an unlisted wall!"
As legal counsel for Cafe Press, I object to this blatant disregard for the rights of business owners. Your idea is obviously a circumvention device designed to destroy free-market capitalism and encourage piracy of Cafe Press' intellectual property.
This would be soooo cool.. punching in an RGB code and changing the color of your car.. I don't think cops would like it too much.. "I'm pulling over a red.. no black.. no green.. no blue, mustang.. "
... Does this outfit make my App look big?
I caught some virus that changed my suit to plaid, and it won't let me change it back!
Blond joke
Q: How do you tell if a blonde is using a computer:
A: There's white-out on the screen
Geek joke
Q:How do you tell if a geek is writing on a piece of paper.
A:There's screen on his white-out.
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