Holograms

uruk said:
Oops! took a closer look. It's not clear plastic strips or fibers it looks like some thing being sprayed into the air in thin streams.
maybe heated or cooled air with condensation, or some kind of fluid.
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If you want to see this effect in action, ride Indiana Jones at Disneyland.

They've had that effect there for 10 years now. It's really cool. It's a thin curtain of cooled water vapor, onto which they project a video of rats crawling across a branch and falling into your car. It really freaks people out, because your head breaks right through it!
 
The io2 site has some new videos on it. One of a 3d watch rotating in the air. If it is indeed real then I'm happy it's not impossible to create holograms in the air. I think a video would be pretty hard(but not impossible) to fake. A lot harder than faking photos anyway. You can do anything in Photoshop. What do you think?
 
I was in Japan this summer and my buddy had one of those 3D display phones. It is pretty cool, but it's not anything that will make you loose your breath. It reminded me of one of those stereo images where you have unfocus your eyes to see except that the screen is specially made so that you don't have to cross your eyes; the phone image seems "naturally" 3D...
 
richardm said:
There is already a good deal of work afoot to make 3 dimensional projection part of the next gen (or the gen after) of mobile phones.
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I thought this was a strange unintended "advance" in mobile phone technology. Link.
Vodafone is deeply unhappy about a new infrared “night filter”, made in Japan, which is fitted to its phones and causes skirts, trousers, shirts and blouses to melt away. Users said it is particularly effective on dark bikinis.
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Teddosan - don't the Japanese come up with all the cool stuff.
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