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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.
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....
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.