Screen made of... nothing?

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:42 am

Hmm the next line in holograms, except it's not. It's there, it's not
tangible, it's pretty and flickery, but it's not a hologram, it's fog.

(And it's finnish, so Kash rejoice)

Seems pretty nifty, and it might be going commercial, how about that?

Having your own fog-screen instead of a monitor. hmm... I wonder what resolutions it can take?

Anyway, here it is: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ira/wave.html

Forty-six & Two · Post by **Forty-six & Two** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:58 am

Finns are pretty cool actually. Id love a fog screen. I bet its just gona be fucking expensive the next 5 years at least.

Neon Dingo · Post by **Neon Dingo** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:59 am

Soon we can have some Snake Plissken-esque practical jokes played on the futuristic totalitarian Christian government!

<img src=http://www.film.warka.pl/images/snake/la3.jpg>

"I have the button to shut down civilization with EMP satelites! But you can always shoot me! HAHA, just kidding! I'm really a hologram!"

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 11:08 am

Forty-six & Two wrote:Finns are pretty cool actually. Id love a fog screen. I bet its just gona be fucking expensive the next 5 years at least.

Not to mention we don't gget a clear idea of what the fog consists of...
=/

But sinde they're planning on selling it to supermarkets and so on, it might just be buy-able.

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:27 pm

In all probability, it is phosphorus.

If they have a light show made out of it at a stadium where parachuters and hang-gliders come in a landing, they'll most probably plummet to their deaths because of the way phosphorus works.

It's the Bermuda Triangle stuff that causes ships to sink and airplanes to dive.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:03 pm

It seems this is completely a Joensuu university project. Look at the titles of the creators: dr, prof... So I doubt it'll be cheap even in the next 10 years. It's still long way to mass production, they got to find cheaper materials etc. etc.

Don't know about the dangers though, but the developers insure it's all safe to use in any and every condition. But then again, people can lie, so who knows?

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:09 pm

Mind telling us what the materials are then?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:17 pm

I don't know the exact stuff, but putting 1 and 1 together, as it's a university project and they haven't been rushing in the developement, it's propably made of exquisite materials. Like when microwave was invented: it used radar parts from fighter planes, so it was too expensive for normal people to buy. They changed them to lesser quality parts and had a sellable product in their hands. But to realize this mistake in the assembling process took them, ooh how much was it again? 15 or 20 years?

Simplified: it's like making toilet paper from covered bank notes.

RawonaM · Post by **RawonaM** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:24 pm

Ehm... yes that country called Finland must be a great place.
Talk about the people there.
Must be the best place in the world... :roll:

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:34 pm

No use RawonaM, I've tried to feed those lies to these people, but they ain't swallowing them

RawonaM · Post by **RawonaM** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:38 pm

No use RawonaM, I've tried to feed those lies to these people, but they ain't swallowing them

Darn!...
um...I mean I dont know what hes talking about... :roll: