Mega cool new display technology.
Here’s the press:
Display Projects Video Images Into Thin Air
Aug. 19, 2005
The Heliodisplay went on the market last week. It displays any video source in full, high-resolution color in free space, without the need for a screen. Demand for the product crashed vendor IO2 Technology’s Web site.
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Here’s the company web site.
Here’s the
patent application for R2D2-like display technology. Heliodisplay, it is called… basically, as far as I can tell, very finely controlled flow of humidified air, onto which images are projected with low power lasers (which also apparently serve to detect motion, making the thing a touch screen as well).
Mega cool.