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Video Screen in Thin Air

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the help-me-obi-wan-kenobi dept.

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."

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  1. Primary use = advertising by kaltkalt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Prepare to have floating, 3D advertisements everywhere you fucking look.

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    Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
  2. seeing double by ilikecaffeine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, so it's a dupe.

    I still want one, and not because of the wowfactor. There seriously needs to be a large (like 3m x 3m), feasible, outdoor display that can be driven through repeatedly and still be visible. It'd be perfect for those idiot drivers who don't notice the "Keep Moving" and "No Turn on Red" signs. If they have to drive through them, they can't *not* see them. (hopefully...) Even a "Slow down, idiot" sign would be great.

    It's my mission to make Americans better drivers, although I'm beginning to think natural selection is the best way to go about that.

  3. OSDN needs to hire real journalists by mao+che+minh · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I love it when the Slashdot editors reveal to us their immense ignorance and lack of awareness by posting duplicate stories. Their inability to effectively manage a weblog between seven to eight people is what keeps Slashdot from becoming a legitimate source of technology news and satire, and instead "just a discussion forum".

    The editor's lack of cleverness and almost childish and poorly thought out comments don't help their cause either. And before you ask me how I can insult the Slashdot team while paying for the site: the discussion board is fine, because we the readers drive it, and it is this that I support - not their shoddy attempt at journalism.

    1. Re:OSDN needs to hire real journalists by KaiserSoze · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hey awesome guy, even though I'll probably be the millionth to point this out, this story is not a dupe. It's a different company with a different project. Let me paraphrase for you:

      No one takes the parent post seriously because he didn't RTFA. The poster's lack of cleverness and almost childish and poorly thought out comments didn't help his cause either.

      Original is here: this is what you are thinking of.
      This is the "fog screen" tech made by the university students.
      Here is a link to a company that is creating vertical projections.

      Read the goddamned article, and stop wasting space. Go away and never come back.

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      "What we elect to call imagination is mere combination of things not heretofore combined." - Frank Norris

  4. THERE IS NO FOG PEOPLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I quote from the web site:

    "Air comes into the device, is ejected and illuminated using a proprietary technique in which the photons and air produce the visible image. There is no harmful gas or liquid. Nothing needs to be refilled. It is just ambient air."