PC Monitor of the Gods!

Absolutely, positively, the coolest monitor idea I’ve ever seen. It reminds me of the villian’s desk from Tron.

Another really cool thing is this I/O brush image capture device. The first few uses of it are nifty, but when they scan the girl’s eye, then “paint” it on the screen and you see it blink, well, that’s just mind blowing!

Just picking my jaw up off the floor, here … Utterly cool, Tuckerfan! :slight_smile:

Reminds me of the monitors in Minority Report and The Island. Is that thing available yet?

Wow…that is unreal! I loved the brush! The impromptu “paintings” made with them are amazing. I’d love to see an exhibit of works created with this thing.

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The bit with Google Earth was tres cool. What was the game at the end? I’ve seen it before.

That is totally cool. I really, really want one.

The game is Planarity.

Now the real key, other than making the hardware affordable, is making the programming simple enough that you don’t need to be a PHD to make use of it.

That is a hard game. Fascinating, but hard.

And boring after Level 6 or so.

Our lab is doing essentially the same research. We’re currently in discussion with the NYU guys to see if they can ship a prototype over for us to play with. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on one of those suckers.

Another cool project is the Lumisight table. Each person standing around the table sees a completely different view, which allows you to do things like present multi-lingual interfaces or play card games on a single table.

Fascinating stuff…and just stuffed full of potential for real-life uses

I loved both of those vids. Thanks tuckerfan!

I can see the benefits of the monitor but I can’t really come up with a good idea of really practical applications for the I/O Brush (which I think is the cooloer of the two). Anyone know what it might be used for in the real world other than parlor tricks?

Here’s a bit more on the ubermonitor. I find the name for the technology amusing: Frustrated Total Internal Reflection. Pretty nifty what their future plans for the thing are:

Eh, Generally anything coming out of the MIT Media Lab looks really cool but doesn’t have much of a practical application.

Just wait till the Japanese get their mitts on it, they’ll do for it what they did for the VCR.

What, incompatible standards and crippling by DRM? :smiley:

Wait till the Chinese get their hands on it…

That’s only the Sony models. The Panasonic and Toshiba units will be fine! :smiley:

Yeah, then they’ll only cost $50 and have a six week lifespan! :wink: