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Screenless TV's Picture Floats In Thin Air
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Posted on 11/22/2003 5:16:54 PM PST by chance33_98
Screenless TV's Picture Floats In Thin Air
POSTED: 9:06 a.m. EST November 20, 2003
BOSTON -- Imagine watching a TV picture that seems to magically appear in thin air.
It's not a sci-fi fantasy but emerging technology. MIT grad student Chad Dyner has developed a video projector that doesn't have a screen.
The picture simply floats in front of the viewer.
Investor Bob Ely won't say exactly how it works -- but a so-called secret sauce modifies air particles to accept and reflect the image. Ely admits the thin-air TV isn't broadcast quality yet. But he said they have a 42-inch prototype. He adds the military and companies that make trade show displays are interested in their technology.
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To: chance33_98
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:19:59 PM PST
by
Lunatic Fringe
(I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.)
To: chance33_98
"secret sauce" "???!!!
Interesting choice of words.
To: chance33_98
Yeah, but when will they invent something worth watching?
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:27:16 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
It's been all downhill since Twin Peaks went away.
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:28:20 PM PST
by
chance33_98
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To: Izzy Dunne
Fog?
To: Pikachu_Dad
As in the movie the Fog? Got the dvd, pretty cool for it's day :)
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:29:30 PM PST
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chance33_98
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To: FairOpinion
Interesting choice of words.The class action lawyers representing asthmatics will have a field day with it.
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:30:50 PM PST
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!)
To: chance33_98
This will have hugh potential for advertising, both indoors and out.
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:33:22 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(I'm a racist, you're a racist, we're all racists, hey!)
To: chance33_98
...but a so-called secret sauce... What does Zogby's secret sauce have to do with display in image in air.
To: sourcery; Ernest_at_the_Beach
ping
To: chance33_98
What will that mean for the flat-screen television industry, especially since they still haven't come down to an affordable price?
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:38:20 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: chance33_98
. . . but a so-called secret sauce modifies air particles . . . Yeah, and it tastes fishy, too -- kind of like one of those perpetual-motion scams that comes along every six months or so seeking investors. Okay, there, I said it.
To: chance33_98
There was a Heinlein story (Podkayne of Mars, maybe) in which one of the characters gets into a taxicab and, as soon as he has told the cavbby his destination and the cab has started moving, the image of a pretty girl appears in thin air and proceeds to sit down on his lap and start pitching him some product. He has to tip the driver to make the image go away.
Sounds like this guy is either using some sort of suspended particulate, or he is ionizing the air in some way. Just a guess.
(steely)
To: Izzy Dunne; Jim Robinson; John Robinson
"Yeah, but when will they invent something worth watching?" When FR gets a cable channel.
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:44:15 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: chance33_98
It's been all downhill since Twin Peaks went away.
You are right about that.....
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posted on
11/22/2003 5:45:19 PM PST
by
cmsgop
(Why don't you settle down and go buy a Juice Newton Album...)
To: Steely Tom
fyi, heilein's works are available in ebook format for your pda.
To: longtermmemmory
I love RAH.
To: Steely Tom
some sort of suspended particulate, or he is ionizing the air in some wayYeah that was my first thought:
modifies air particles to accept and reflect the image
"Accept": receives electromagnetic waves. "Reflect": beams 'em out again. So beams are absorbed and emitted back out again. Which means that specific energy levels are being pumped and released. Ionization could prep those energy levels...
Because take any ol' random particle: you bounce light off it, you have no idea of knowing what reflection angle that light is gonna take. Though maybe that's part of the "modification"... Hmmm..
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posted on
11/22/2003 6:02:54 PM PST
by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
To: sweetliberty
If you could direct connect FR to your brain so you would be in constant contact with FR, you could post with mere thought; would you?
Instead of the Borg Collective it would be the Freeper Collective.
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