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NOVA 3D LED Display
todayandtomorrow.net — 25,000 lightballs, each containing 12 LED ’s. It can display 16 million colors and 25 images per second.
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- Dylson, on 05/02/2008, -1/+4How much?
- Durthalion, on 05/02/2008, -10/+3porn would be pretty sweet on it....
- thcobbs, on 05/02/2008, -1/+1Yeah, if you like watching porn in stop-animation.
- Seph7, on 05/02/2008, -0/+425fps is a bit quick to state something as stop-animation considering standard cinema reel only displays at 24fps
- thcobbs, on 05/02/2008, -1/+1Yeah, if you like watching porn in stop-animation.
- spinaltap87, on 05/02/2008, -14/+1But can it play Crysis?
- Mjuboy, on 05/02/2008, -0/+12More pictures and videos would've been good.
- ayeroxor, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5Details: http://www.nova.ethz.ch/
More pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom26ger/sets/7215759 ...- consoneo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3Lil bit O' English linkage :) http://www.nova.ethz.ch/index.php?setlanguage=E
- Mjuboy, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3Thanks for that, but I wonder if it displays anything other than random colors.
- misterS, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1it does.
there are various pre-programmed presets, but also the possibility to "draw" on the display. there's a glass cube containing a touchscreen on the floor, where one can program one's own patterns.
- misterS, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1it does.
- username7D8, on 05/02/2008, -1/+33.3 tons... hmmm, lets look from a distance shall we?
- Taikun, on 05/02/2008, -1/+28None of the balls appear to be touching, so it's not gay.
- reflex768, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5A video clip (others in the sidebar): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIIp2wFGVdw
- Kamino, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3It looks like a holodeck.
- oxford, on 05/02/2008, -1/+2Here's the burning man version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dixgNJ84ig8
All those dirty hippies with their drug enhanced imaginations and busy little soldering irons...- je12u, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0That's actually cool. Too bad about the rest of your comment though...
- oxford, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0I've been one of those dirty hippies eight of the last ten years. Didn't make anything as cool as the link above though.
- ophello, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1"All those dirty hippies with their drug enhanced imaginations and busy little soldering irons..."
wow...stereotype much?
- je12u, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0That's actually cool. Too bad about the rest of your comment though...
- je12u, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0When will super efficient lighting be available to general public is what I'd like to know. I already have CFL's, but LED is the way to go.
- oxford, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I've played with the superbright LEDs. The problem that I see right now is the form factor is a little weird, the power requirements are so different from standard lighting and you have to be willing to drop a heat sink into anything that's going to put out a useful amount of light. None of it is insurmountable, but it's still a matter of a product that cannot be easily squeezed into the traditional lighbulb scenario (i know, i know, some products exist, but the pricing is still sorta awful on those items). It's like if someone came up with a super-efficient candle that could burn for a thousand hours before it went out. How many of us have houses that could realistically be lit entirely by candles without burning them down.
All that aside, the superbrights are a joy to work with... - bigtech64, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0They are, but they're not cheap -- try $20-$40 each! http://www.superbrightleds.com/edison_globe.html
- oxford, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I've played with the superbright LEDs. The problem that I see right now is the form factor is a little weird, the power requirements are so different from standard lighting and you have to be willing to drop a heat sink into anything that's going to put out a useful amount of light. None of it is insurmountable, but it's still a matter of a product that cannot be easily squeezed into the traditional lighbulb scenario (i know, i know, some products exist, but the pricing is still sorta awful on those items). It's like if someone came up with a super-efficient candle that could burn for a thousand hours before it went out. How many of us have houses that could realistically be lit entirely by candles without burning them down.
- Lunarbunny, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Hmmm, guess my idea was not original.
- Zippo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3Great work, now make it display pr0n.
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