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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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″) […]

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 […]

Infocomm 2010 – SLot machine

Went to infocomm which was great and I will add to this blog in a bit but I think that the coolest technology I saw was in a slot machine at the hard rock. Check it out… an LCD with the backlight cut out where the wheels are spinning… think of the possibilities… (the spinning […]

ESI Design Shanghai Corporate Pavilion – The Dream Cube

The Dream Cube – Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 The reason I have spent a quarter of the last 16 months flying between Shanghai and New York is now open and featured in a post in the New York Times. Photo Credit: Basil Childers Check out some other links as well […]

Augmented Reality Aquarium

Laser Pico Projector

No lens so always in focus 10 lumens wvga (848 x 480) How it works specs Macworld interview