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Writing on Standing Water
A reader writes "Engadget is reporting on Japanese scientists who have found a way to 'write' characters on the surface of water using waves. This looks very cool - but the time required to change character seems very high (15-30 seconds). From the article: 'Liquid-based displays are nothing new -- in a vertical orientation, at least -- but apparently it's a lot more difficult to coax a standing pool of water into forming recognizable shapes and characters.'"
"My name is written in water" has lost all it's meaning, now!
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Not to rain on their parade, but these ice sculpture guys seem to have beat them to it.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
But it only works with Capital Os.
Now only if they can do this in 3D like in the movie Abyss. (Yes I know, it was CG animated)
Life is not for the lazy.
Write a message on the ocean for aliens to see.
Imagine a SeaWorld-type attraction where the final act is a chum-filled pool slowly spelling out
"AND NOW...
SHARKS
WITH
FRICKIN
LASERS!!!"
I am SO in.
...at first I thought it said "writing WHILE standing on water."
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
It's yet another way to go to an undeveloped country and convince the locals that you are a god.
Standing water, you say?
How about "Mosquito bite cream $20, on sale to your left"?
Nobody else has this sig.
Over on engadget, they had serious comments about using resin, vacuuming forming, advertising, and other practical applications.
Here, we got a pageful of piss jokes....
"That's nothing new. I have a special pen that can write my name in my tiolet bowel water."
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
Permanent, easy to read pregnancy tests in every toilet. Ok, maybe womens' washrooms only.
When a women sees the "U R Preggers" in the toilet water, she has the option to purchase a morning after pill from the dispenser built into the tank.
The toilets could also upload the bowl results through the tubes, although the internets might get blocked by all that tp.
Hook up to the internet and you add a whole new dimension to doubleclick ads!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Because we are fresh out of glass coke bottles.
i'm imagining a pool with a message that reads "wet surface"
shooting is not too good for my enemies
Someone needs to make it spell out "John Keats."
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
You mean Aquaman.
"This is not an instruction."
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
...I've been able to write me name in the snow for years.
AARRGGHH!!!
So, it isn't enough that every square centimeter of every wall is full of flashing, blinking, annoying crap that tries to make me buy something; now I can't even watch the sky without some moronic vitamin supplement ad getting in the way ?
Or, once script kiddies get to the wave generators, goatse clouds. Hmm... Now that I think of it, maybe they could put the goatse cloud somewhere it fits - like, say, mooning the House of Representatives, to give them a fitting reward for their work ?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.