Replace Your Windows With LCD Panels

hoagaboom writes "I had particularly ugly neighbors and a lot of LCD panels laying around, so why not build a Virtual Window? I really wanted to do full motion video, but PCI bandwidth is standing in my way. So with multiple PCIE vid cards, any suggestions on how to split a full motion video stream in Linux?"

Comments

You could always

[Anonymous Coward]

Hook up a webcam and put it right outside.

Re:You could always

[ePhil_One]

Three years ago, I could handle the amount of sunlight that came through the upper windows above my main windows. A year ago, I couldn't, so I put in mini-blinds on those. Now even that is bright enough to bother me (even at night, just from the moonlight), hence the line of thinking. Maybe it's just me.

Dude, you're either turning into a vampire or have a serious medical problem. Either way I suggest a doctors visit...

Re:You could always

[ScrewMaster]

Probably. Patent it quick, before someone else does.

Re:You could always

[mikewas]

Too late, it's been done. It happenned right after we found the results of unsynchronized images in a flight simulator.

It wasn't pretty.

Re:You could always

[corian]

Hook up a webcam and put it right outside. ...on a twelve-hour delay. Perfect way to amuse/confuse your houstguests.

Re:You could always

[werwerf]

I've seen those!...

You go into a room and put coins and then the glass gets clear and a lady in scant clothing is dancing and...

Err... Nevermind! Nothing to see here, just move along! :)

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there was a SIG here.
it is gone now.

Too late

[mindriot]

Sorry, I already replaced my Windows with Linux.

SCNR

Re:Too late

[einhverfr]

Funny. This is exactly how I read the headline the first time....

Now, it is talking about replacing your windows with Linux running LCD streeming video. But not your MS Windows....

Slashdot just got Weird.....

People with glass windows

[savagedome]

I had particularly ugly neighbors

The neighbor's response: "I had particularly ugly neighbors too"

News For Nerds??

[Anonymous Coward]

This can't be right...TFA contains an article of a (presumably) real, live, breathing girl!

What have you done with my Slashdot??

/ducks

Cruel but awesome........

[ARRRLovin]

I want to see the same concept executed using 30" Apple Cinema displays and have video of birds smashing into the "glass", like you're looking out of a skyscraper window.

Re:Cruel but awesome........

[Anonymous Coward]

Or, alternatively, the footage of 747 jets flying into those windows!

*ducks*!

Re:Cruel but awesome........

[El_Smack]

And rig up a "knocker" like they used in the old Q*bert games, so there would be a real thump when the bird hit.

Re:Cruel but awesome........

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree, birds taste better than 747s.

I hated being picked last too

[J-bob2]

Soon we will attain the goal of all geeks, to never have to see or go outside again. I suspect it has something to do with being picked last for kickball in Junior High.

Replacing Neighbors

[Snap E Tom]

Now he can have some porn chick neighbors!

Creative

[comwiz56]

This has to be one of the most creative uses of technology I've seen on /. Great job!

Now theres gotta be some really funny/interesting images you could put on those? How about a bunch of people peering in (add some speakers and you could really scare some houseguests)?

Also, does the computer change brightness/images to match the time of day?

Windows Blue Screen?

[MonkeyCookie]

I could just imagine the shock of the guy's grandma coming over, looking out the window, and suddenly seeing the Windows BSOD appear in the window.

Re:Absolutely Amazing

[pla]

If nothing else, go look at this just to see the panels installed and "lit up."

Whoah!

Simply Amazing!

34 posts, and a person's personal site hasn't gone up in flames yet?

The hell with the LCD panels, I want to know his ISP!

Re:amazing

[Country_hacker]

Are you talking about the LCD's, or the Hot Chick (tm) weilding the soldering iron??? w00t!! ;-)

Re:this is kind of a cool idea

[Anonymous Coward]

I couldn't think of a better escape from the urban nightmare that I live in right now.

Gosh, you could, I don't know, MOVE?!?

Re:Julie

[Anonymous Coward]

The important question is: does she do anal?

Am I the only one...

[butters the odd]

Who saw this and thought "Now wouldn't this be great for porn?"

Back to the Future

[Zordak]

Am I the only one reminded of Back to the Future II, where they have this exact thing in the house (except its broken, 'cause Michael J. Fox's character is poor).

A fun side project: Hook these up to a high-end SGI machine, install a digital camcorder to film the real view out your window, and replace your ugly neighbors with attractive digital characters in real time.

Are your neighbors uglier than you?

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

I ask because mirrors are fairly inexpensive.

Uhm...let me think.

[Maudib]

No.

That's a good idea actually :-)

[MacDork]

Put the 'windows' on the outside of the house, then you could create all sorts of interesting things for the nosy folks across the street to witness :-)

• Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

:-)

This guy is my hero.

[sTalking_Goat]

8 15" LCD panels just laying around? Hot chicks helping him solder? ...solder?

Who are you and how can I have your life?

Wardriving!

[xsupergr0verx]

I wish this technology was consumer and commonplace. Then you could wardrive someone's network and goatse all their LCD windows...

Re:Wardriving!

[zulux]

Then you could wardrive someone's network and goatse all their LCD windows...


That just great....Goatse.cx is now also a verb?

I'll be sure to slip that into any ESL curriculum that I can:

Verb: Goatsecx (Irregular)

I goatse
You goatsecx
He/She goatsecx
We goatsexes
They goatseces

Examples:

Bob goatsexed the other day - and now has trouble sitting in a chair.
The whole family spent a evening goatsecing - and now nobody can find the TV remote.

Dude!

[kvn]

Apply for a patent! You could sell tons of these things! Your target market would be the people who use weather applets (or web pages) to see what the weather is like, rather than GOING/LOOKING OUTSIDE.

After all, there are plenty of people with more money than sense.

Super cool hardware hack, though...

Total isolation on offer.

[Mortiss]

Hear ye, Hear ye!

Finally grand dream of the geek comes true. Possblity of the total isolation from the outside world (those pesky sun rays, other people who might actually want to talk to you in person)and its still done in high tech manner with no need to use primitive bricks and mortar.

And wait there is more: You can display your favourite games landscape complete with purple skies and those horny female aliens.

REWARD For Stolen Equipment

[Nautica]

The company I work for recently had the theft of 8 15 inch LCD monitors. If you have any information regarding this crime that leads to an arrest, we shall reward you $1000 dollars.

But if he was a real geek

[geekoid]

he would have something besides a sunset.Well maybe a sunset, but not one from Earth!

Re:Ob simpsons

[RsG]

Grandpa: (with stake and mallet) We have to kill the boy!
Lisa: How did you know that Barts a vampire?
Grandpa: He's a vampire?! (drops stake/mallet) AHHHHH (runs away)

(later)

Lisa: You must drive this stake through his heart.
Homer: DIE YOU INHUMAN MONSTER!!!! (pounds stake into Burns)
Lisa: Uh, dad that's his crotch.

Sounds like...

[spacecadetglow]

someone's been watching back to the future..

On my budget I could not do this but

[thomasa]

perhaps I could possibly afford an LCD porthole.

I must say...

[tsch]

the telescope pointing at the fake windows was a really nice touch.

Cool....

[ArtisteTerroriste]

This is very cool. Along the lines of Gibson's changing suit. Now, if I had one the size of a closet mirror, I could make my wife feel better about her self!

Re:Ob simpsons

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

My uncle was a vampire. Noone believed me until I drove a wooden stake through his heart. It killed him.