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Video Screen in Thin Air
Agent Provocateur writes "CNN has a story about inventions in advanced computer displays -- eliminating the screen altogether."Ever since the movie 'Star Wars' came out and there was a distress call from Princess Leia," -- generated in thin air by the robot R2D2 -- "people all over the world have been wanting one of these."
While unlikely to replace the desktop computer monitor, so-called walk-through displays could eventually be put to use in product showrooms and museums."
"help me 'tech support' you're my only hope..."
I see this as a great inovation for pr0n.
What Am I going to smash to pieces when my program doesn't work ?
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
;)
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Until somebody overrides the safety protocols and you are blasted into the hot fog pool by a fog rocket :)
Jeroen
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The name for the technolgoy is hardly accurate. At twenty seven inches, only a smurf could "walk-through" this screen.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -Oscar Wilde
yep, sounds like it was posted on slashdot.
and just think of what this could do for the beer-goggling scene. Once you get her back home and realize what you've gotten into, just overlay her with the Asia Carerra program and off you go...
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From the article image caption, accompanying a projection of Cameron Diaz: Researchers say the heliodisplay can be used to interact with images of movie stars and others.
I'm not even going to touch that one.
Imagine the uses for advertising in a city's red light district.
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes.] Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Ok, the fog screen costs 100 grand, and a mime has one? How the hell did he afford that? Finland must be the place to annoy the hell out of people for profit.
Hmmm. "Popular", "Finnish", "Mime"
I understand each of those words individually, but as a sentence they just don't compute. During all the time I've spent in Finland I remember tango music, polkas, The Lenningrad Cowboys, Muikut (small fish eaten whole. Don't eat Muikut no matter how many people tell you "It's a delicacy"). But I certainly don't remember any popular Finnish Mime. Unless they're talking about former president Marti Attisari.
Oh well, Anteksi, Mina en osa Soumi hyva (Finnish for "Sorry, I don't speak Finnish very well).
Yeah, I always wanted a 3D projection of a grainy, breaking-up, static-y video which gets stuck in a loop... Well, maybe if Pricess Leia was naked..
But it's a good kind of vaporware!
-- Boycott Shell
so you're a virgin, then?
Popular mime?
No one wants to have dirty sex with you - haven't you noticed yet?
(Hint: Star Trek is part of the reason)
That was classic intercourse!