Sunday, July 1, 2012

University of Tokyo builds a soap bubble 3D screen, guarantees your display stays squeaky clean (video)

University of Tokyo builds a soap bubble 3D screen, guarantees your display stays squeaky clean video

There are waterfall screens, but what if you'd like your display to be a little more... pristine? Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a display that hits soap bubbles with ultrasonic sound to change the surface. At a minimum, it can change how light glances off the soap film to produce the image. It gets truly creative when taking advantage of the soap's properties: a single screen is enough to alter the texture of a 2D image, and multiple screens in tandem can create what amounts to a slightly sticky hologram. As the soap is made out of sturdy colloids rather than the easily-burst mixture we all knew as kids, users won't have to worry about an overly touch-happy colleague popping a business presentation. There's a video preview of the technology after the jump; we're promised a closer look at the technology during the SIGGRAPH expo in August, but we don't yet know how many years it will take to find sudsy screens in the wild.


Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/29/university-of-tokyo-builds-a-soap-bubble-3d-screen/

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