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Walk-thru Fog Screen
fluor2 writes "Ever wanted a screen floating in air? Two scientists, Ismo Rakkolainen and Karri Palovuori, both from Tampere University of Technology, Finland have come up with an idea. It is called the Walk-thru Fog Screen. The fog screen, consisting of 'fog' that is blown down from top, and the protective laminar airflow creates a thin and crisp surface, pretty undisturbed by the air in the rest of the room, making it ideal for projector usage. People can walk right through this screen of fog. Their next idea is to use the fog as a touch-screen, making it even more accessible." For a screen one can walk through, the image quality is better than I'd have thought.
is this what they call vapor-ware ?
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walk through my Blue Screen of Death!
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Get out of the screen what do you think you are? Made out ouf Glass?
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It's all just smoke and mirrors!
How will he know when the Comissioner really calls him and its not just a couple of Finns messing about with their own batsign?
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The Genuine People Personality software is patented by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, so i'd be careful that they don't sue :)
Now this is a cool and useful thing. It would be cool to have something like this in the home so I could use it as a monitor. If the main unit was hidden with a drop down keyboard. Well hidden PC :)
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Yeah, geeks can now have sex with fog! Getting to hologram sex, slowly but surely. :-)
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Grab your favorite smelly hippie and head out to the old outdoor venue, forget about 90+ degree temps when you hop into the Fog Screen 3D!
Based on the "mist tents" seen at Lollapalalaala(TM), you'll trip balls walking thru the 50 foot cube of cooling fog filled with visuals that _may_ have something to do with the music!
Seriously, this is a great idea and I expect we'll see something based on this which gets the audience inside the thing at entertainment venues in the future. I also would like to say I'm glad to see it looking so good in the demo pics.
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How about using a giant outdoor mist-screen to show flickery 8mm. movies of ghosts &c. from a concealed projector, in order to scare away the residents from an old village where you have been secretly conducting a highly lucrative but probably illegal operation, so they won't nick your money / grass you up?
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Oh, wait, I think this might have been done before
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Then I can realize my dream, Brittney Spears backup dancer. And after the show... she leads me by the hand to her dressing room... errrrm
I mean to play Quake 10, yeah, thats it. Quake.
Then maybe I can have my own virtual pamela anderson that I can... erm nevermind.
The Genuine People Personality software is patented by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, so i'd be careful that they don't sue :)
Don't you mean Sirius Cybernetics cOrporation?
Also you could scare folks in amusement park rides making them think they are about to crash into stuff.
Yeah you could also put signs before the ride saying "this ride is safe using smokescreens", but during the ride they actually crash really really hard into stuff.
Well, a fairly famous book once described the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes' , that does sound like a reasonable description of SCO :)
So, combine this with adaptive camouflage and you've got yourself an invisible secret lair from which to lauch evil plans. Super villiany is finally feasible, and just in time for Arnold to win the Governorship to do battle with, sweet!
I think you could make a pretty decent mockery of any billboard using this with a leafblower...or an industrial vacuum: "hey, mcdonalds! you *suck*"
Realistic firearms training?
"Oops! Sorry, I didn't know you were behind that screen."
Even the comments are the same...
then i really hope it's not that infamous fog that turns people inside-out.
Wile E. Coyote could have actually caught the Road Runner with one of these things.
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This actually reminds me more of the Membari 360 degree display of battles, and the display screens on the Whitestar fleet. They both came down from the ceiling.
This is cool technology! Although, I'd think you'd want to keep it away from wall and wooden areas to prevent the growth of mold and mildew.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
My vacuum cleaner is now a screen capture utility! Can I get a Hoover with USB?
One of our favorite uses: an image that people can walk through which looks just like a solid brick wall... exactly six inches in front of a real brick wall. Get your webcams ready.
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Or even better a fluid mechanics plugin for winamp! You could display fog on the fog!