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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. Whatever happened to... by jwcorder · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Dashboard screen to monitor kids in the back seat"....

    Whatever happened to just looking in the rear view mirror and trying to beat your kids with one arm while driving with the other...jeez...take all the fun out of it why don't ya...

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    1. Re:Whatever happened to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just wait until they start putting tasers in the back seats and make the monitor a touchscreen. Now there is inivation.

    2. Re:Whatever happened to... by WormholeFiend · · Score: 2, Interesting

      why doesnt Slashdot have a +1 Scary mod?

      Just yesterday I was riding with a friend in his car when we catch up to another car driving erratically in front of us...

      We both thought the driver was drunk, but when we got a chance to pass him, we saw a couple of kids bouncing on the back seat and the driver was doing just what you described.

  2. Sounds Good by lachlan76 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But what would you use a tv on your jeans for?
    In any case I can't wait to get one of those 3D screens.
    One thing I would like to know is what would happen when you use the screen without the eye-tracking? Wouldn't it go out of focus or have an unnatural appearance when your head moves.
    Hopefully these obstacles will be overcome soon.

    1. Re:Sounds Good by Eccles · · Score: 5, Funny

      But what would you use a tv on your jeans for?

      Flashers might use one when it's really cold...

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  3. 50-odd years of sci-fi explained by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah this explains why all sci-fi space-ships have CRT monitors - around 2020 when lifting things into orbit cost almost nothing, new ships were built using ultra-cheap CRTs that everyone was throwing out to replace with all this new stuff. But that still doesnt explain why spock had to look down that blue screen-scope thing...

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    1. Re:50-odd years of sci-fi explained by GordoSlasher · · Score: 5, Funny

      But that still doesnt explain why spock had to look down that blue screen-scope thing...
      Two words. Vulcan pr0n.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. When would we see these displays? by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The best mode to read, as anyone would agree is paper-based, be it a book or a newspaper.

    The cheap displays that can be inserted into the newspapers with short clips for the different news items or some illustration (in case of a book) that start getting played as you flip through different sheets would be ultra-cool.

    (some spielberg movie already had a newspaper like this i guess)

    When would I (/can expect to) get a copy of such books/newspapers?

  7. Now that's what I'm talkin' about by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 4, Funny
    Instead, I just shut off the power to their video game/DVD player when they start yelling at each other.

    Even better, install an airtight parition so you can cut off the oxygen when they act up. They'll either start to behave in exchange for a precious breath of life, or anoixa will eventually shut them up anyway.

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  8. 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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  9. A television sewn into your shirt sleeve by chargen · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what do I do when it's wrinkled? My wife still won't iron my clothes and I'm a helpless male when it comes to laundry!

    -Pete

  10. Re:80" plasma on the way by Terminal+Saint · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know nothing about it, but it's my understanding that the high price of plasma displays is in large part caused by the fact that the manufacturing process is pretty hit and miss. For every one that comes out right, there's a couple that don't, so there is room for the price to come down eventually, provided they manage refine the process. But again, I don't have any source on this, I just seem to remember hearing it...

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