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Walk-thru Fog Screen

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the you're-soaking-in-it dept.

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.

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  1. hmmm by boogy+nightmare · · Score: 5, Funny

    is this what they call vapor-ware ?

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    1. Re:hmmm by shfted! · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, but it would be the perfect display for playing Myst...

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  2. Great.. now I'd like to by jkrise · · Score: 4, Funny

    walk through my Blue Screen of Death!

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    1. Re:Great.. now I'd like to by Doppler00 · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...and into another dimension, where the stable version of windows actually exists...

  3. I say by Jage · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all just smoke and mirrors!

  4. Re:porn? by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, geeks can now have sex with fog! Getting to hologram sex, slowly but surely. :-)

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  5. Re:It would make for a great cinema effect by Biomechanoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Seaquest DSV by Alranor · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 :)

  7. My newest peripheral: by roelbj · · Score: 5, Funny

    My vacuum cleaner is now a screen capture utility! Can I get a Hoover with USB?