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Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-into-the-future dept.

unassimilatible writes "A television sewn into your shirt sleeve. A dashboard screen to monitor the kids in the back seat. A 3-D computer monitor sharp enough to make a hardcore gamer's heart stop - or help a surgeon start one. The gizmo-packed exhibition hall at the Society for Information Display's international symposium offers a tantalizing vision of what's to come, AP reports (with some cool pics)."

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  1. Re:I want one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a really bad idea! It uses 802.11a? Snoopers are going to have a field day with these. Tempest, eat your heart out.

  2. Dashboard screens by earthforce_1 · · Score: 5, Insightful


    You need a very long arm to reach the kids in the back of a minivan. Trust me, I know. Instead, I just shut off the power to their video game/DVD player when they start yelling at each other. Warn once, second time the power goes off.

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    1. Re:Dashboard screens by earthforce_1 · · Score: 1, Insightful


      Great, another self professed expert (probably single) telling me how to handle my kids. No doubt you have never had to deal with three very bored young boys on a long trip. Games of I spy don't work very long, (especially if the oldest thinks it is something for little kids) and they certainly have no appreciation for scenery at that age, even if there was any. Reading makes them (and me) carsick, and stopping on the side of the road to clean up somebody' vomit certainly isn't fun. (Done that several times, yuk)

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  3. 3D screens = ++ungood by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I really think we're asking for trouble if we start introducing these so-called 3D screens into common use.

    A childhood peppered with 3D glasses and stereoscopic dot images has done some exceedingly funny things with my eyes -- I often find myself looking at shelves in bookshops and chemists' and see the items on the shelves popping out at me.

    The reason? My brain has been trained to ignore the naturally-trained link between the focussing distance of the eyes' lenses and the angle my eyes are pointing at (binocular triangulation).

    This can occur whenever there is any repeating pattern and is extremely disorientating. (And sometimes headache inducing.)

    Some people were physically sick when they tried to use Virtual Reality (remember that?).

    Now, I know they are adding some levels of variable focus into these things, but these just don't match the natural range the eye focuses to.

    HAL.

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