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Old August 21st, 2009, 04:39 PM
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Here's an Interesting story, from the BBC, about a new "Flexible" LED Panel. It loos like it could, eventually, be a neat scenic element.
Personally, I'm waiting for a sytem that rolls on like paint, automatically arranges itself into an RGB grid then reacts to a wireles signal then your TV, computer, whatever, can just follow you around the house from room to room, or if you get tired of the wallpaper in the kitchen, you can just re-program it .....
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...where is the link?
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Sorry, Edited the post and fixed the link. That's what I get for Multi-tasking at work.
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Personally, I'm waiting for a sytem that rolls on like paint, automatically arranges itself into an RGB grid then reacts to a wireles signal then your TV, computer, whatever, can just follow you around the house from room to room, or if you get tired of the wallpaper in the kitchen, you can just re-program it .....
Fahrenheit 451 much? Or 1984? Or Brave New World? The video wall is coming, we just have to give up everything for it. Now, back to making tin foil hats.
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Oh I'm thinking the video walls from Total Recall lousy movie, cool technology.
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Oh I'm thinking the video walls from Total Recall lousy movie, cool technology.
That was not a great movie, but it wasn't lousy. The Fifth Element is very entertaining, and the highest resolution DVD I've seen - the detail is amazing.
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Van, as crazy as it sounds, I have heard that there has been research on a roll on paint that can project images. Yes, a whole wall full of Call of Duty 4. Life is good.
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That was not a great movie, but it wasn't lousy. The Fifth Element is very entertaining, and the highest resolution DVD I've seen - the detail is amazing.
5th Element one of my all time favorites!
But seriously Mons Olympus erupts with an alien oxygen machine and with 15 seconds there's enough atmosphere to breathe? For that matter puncturing a window causes explosive decompression that sucks people through windows ? Mars has an atmosphere, albeit a very thin CO2 one.
Oh well, I love 5th Element, my wife doesn't...... Maybe it's the whole Mila Jolovich thing.
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Van, as crazy as it sounds, I have heard that there has been research on a roll on paint that can project images. Yes, a whole wall full of Call of Duty 4. Life is good.
Sign me up ! I'd love to use something like that on a set. Every surface programable...... Cool!
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That'd be great! no more building sets, just lay out an LED surface and upload a picture onto it,

actually... on second thought, I'd be out of a job,

It would be rubbish, dont use it.
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5th Element one of my all time favorites!
But seriously Mons Olympus erupts with an alien oxygen machine and with 15 seconds there's enough atmosphere to breathe? For that matter puncturing a window causes explosive decompression that sucks people through windows ? Mars has an atmosphere, albeit a very thin CO2 one.
Oh well, I love 5th Element, my wife doesn't...... Maybe it's the whole Mila Jolovich thing.

Sign me up ! I'd love to use something like that on a set. Every surface programable...... Cool!
Actually Van, you're getting 5th. Element confused with Total Recall. Total Recall was the one with the alien oxygen machine. 5th. Element was the one with Mila Jovovich, so you at least got that part right.
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