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12 Tech Tuesday – Transparent LCD
We just got a transparent LCD in the office! It is provided by Primeview using a Samsung 22″ LCD panel. It is an OEM version of Primeview’s PRV22TC so is just the LCD panel and video driver without any lightbox. So what is a transparent LCD… A normal LCD is a panel made up of […]
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11 Tech Tuesday – Projection Mapping
Architectural projection mapping is the latest passing fad.. or is it. For the last couple of years we have seen buildings and other physical spaces projection mapped for art, advertising, performance, etc. Architectural Projection mapping is where media is projected on a three dimensional surface and the warping that would occur is corrected for. Projection […]
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10 Tech Tuesday – Tactile Displays
Displays; we look at them and now we touch them, and now we are getting closer to them giving haptic feedback. Our button phones and our keyboards give us haptic and audio feedback that is a large part of our experience of interacting with them, now researchers are figuring out how to give similar feedback […]
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09 Tech Tuesday Pico Projectors
Pico Projectors- There are two main types of Pico Projectors, Laser and LED. Laser pico projectors use a laser beam to project the image. The advantage of Laser projectors is that there is no optics, meaning that that focus is no longer a challenge. Unlike a normal projector with a lens that needs to be […]
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08 Tech Tuesday – Pulse IR Touch Screen
In our lobby we have a new multi-touch touch screen, based on Pulse IR. I will describe a little about the technology and the protocol that it uses to communicate Multi-touch information. The LCD Screen It is a 42″ 1920 x 1080 LCD panel made by NEC, with a PulsIR touch overlay that was created […]
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07 Tech Tuesday – The Live Park
The Live Park – An interactive multi-media experience/theme park in Korea just north of Seoul. Here is a write up of what I was able to glean from internet research on this new venue. It is interesting that this is the “First Episode,” it is a highly themed experience that will run for a year […]
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06 Tech Tuesday – Interactive Floors
Interactive floors have been around for at least 15 years and vary in resolution and sensing functionality. Commercially they are used for three purposes that I know of, Commercial Applications safety mats (large piece of machinery stops working if you step on or off of a mat). These tend to be super durable low resolution […]
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05 Tech Tuesday – CES 2012 Pt. 2 – The future is mediated…
Is the future this bizarre looking or are thousands of people walking around in the street looking at their devices just as strange or stranger… Here are a couple of devices shown at CES 2012 that put a screen between you and the world around you in a potentially successful way. You are starting to […]
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04 Tech Tuesday – CES 2012 Pt. 1
A couple of fun stand outs at CES 2012 for day 1 VIZIO has released a number of “CinemaWide” displays coming in at a 21:9 ratio. Perfect for a football game and your chat/tweet/fantasy communication running on the side. Sharp is releasing an 80″ LCD (yes 80″ (our conference room plasma is a tiny 65″) […]
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03 Fog and Water Projection
There are a number of different options for creating a display surface using water. Fog Screens FOG Screen – A company that makes 3 versions of a full fog screen system. This only requires power and a water line to play. These work by creating a thin sheet of water mist that falls evenly down […]
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02 Tech Tuesday – DST Touchscreen
The 3M DST Controller Touch Technology comes in many different flavors. 3M makes one called DST (Dispersive Signal Technology), that, in a nutshell, listens to the vibrations of your finger hitting the screen and dragging across the screen. It is a single-touch panel and come in sizes 32″ – 55″. Each touch technology has a […]
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01 Tech Tuesday – LCD Overview
A closeup of an LCD panel showing the transistors in front of the RGB of each pixel LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) are cool and prevalent. Liquid crystals of two competing polarizations sitting in front of Red Green and Blue for each pixel and twist on and off rapidly to let light through. CCFL Backlight Currently […]