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Flyfire Swarming Display: Top Secret MIT Project?
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on February 17th, 2010
I’ve always thought about how cool it would be if bees could swarm into shapes, like they do on cartoons. Think of that one school of fish in Finding Nemo. With the bees example, I would imagine it would be a cross between the nano-swarm in Michael Crichton’s Prey or the smoky monster from Lost.
Apparently, some people are working to create a swarming display over at MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory. This program, dubbed Flyfire, uses a lot of micro helicopters with multicolored and controllable LEDs. As they come together, they can form a 3-D display.
Normally, this is the point where I explain that there is a video of this product after the jump, but the video from my source went offline shortly after they posted about FlyFire. Is this technology meant to be some sort of top-secret project that somehow got leaked? You might want to check my Source to see if the video has re-posted.
If it hasn’t, I can see why. All these tiny micro copters working together could do some serious damage in nano-swarm form. However, this doesn’t sound like something that is designed to be weapon, but something to make a display.
Man, can you imagine these micro copters en masse to produce an object that is, for lack of a better word, a flying statue? This could easily replace those balloons at Macys.
Of course, you would need a truckload of this microcopters, plus some program to make them work in sync. But who cares about the problems? It’s a nifty concept, isn’t it?
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LG’s LM230WF4 display is 3D with 1080p
Posted by admin in Audio Gadgets on December 5th, 2009
Considering all of the 3D action that I saw at CES last January, it is not surprising that LG is getting into the game. Not only are they now in the game, but they are on the verge of becoming a star player.
The company announced that they are the first to produce an LCD panel with 3D and 1080p capabilities. This monitor is a 23-inch LM230WF4, and I am guessing that you will have to use the glasses that the model is wearing from the photo, and I’m also guessing that these glasses are probably electronic so they can have the flash effect that is necessary for the 3D effects that I saw at last January’s CES.
It’s hard to believe that they put 1080p and 3D in the same package, but they also gave it 400cd/m2 brightness, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, as well as a 3ms response time. LG intends to offer trial services of 3D broadcasting in the second half of 2010 in Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Strangely enough, we don’t have a price, availability date, or when this guy will be available for buying. Considering all the 3D hype that will probably occur at CES 2010, I’m guessing it will be sooner rather than later.
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Sony’s 3D display is visible at all angles
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on October 19th, 2009
Considering the amount of coverage that 3D is getting with most of the big-name companies promising 3D enabled HDTVs, hardly anyone has considered a 3D approach that doesn’t involve silly glasses.
It’s nice to see that Sony is thinking one step ahead of the competition with this new concept 3D display. See that cute little character who appears to be trapped in a lava-less lava lamp? Well, the viewer of this character can walk around this cylinder and see it from every angle, with no funky glasses required.
This 3D prototype is a stereoscopic, 24-bit color image that measures about 96 x 128 pixels. I’m guessing we’ll see this at CES in January of next year, but until then, I am wondering what is the “master plan” behind this.
Is it so that we will have holograms like Princess Leia’s iconic “help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi” message from the original Star Wars? I certainly hope so. I wouldn’t mind talking to someone who was a tiny hologram in front of me, but I think that our current mobile phone culture has eliminated the need for land-line holograms.
Perhaps it is to make some new form of entertainment. Can you imagine watching a movie, and then watching the same movie at a different angle? I suppose if it was a 3D experience, it would make a difference, but we are talking about a whole new form of entertainment that doesn’t exist as yet.
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