I guess you techsmart folks that live in big metro areas have seen this, but I haven’t yet witnessed them first hand.
Flatscreen TVs that are paintings. In other words, your flatscreen TV has a “screen saver” mode when you aren’t watching ESPN, that shows a painting of your choice.
And I guess you can change as often as you like. This week a Picasso, next week a Klimt, and coming soon, a de Kooning.
And TVs with mirror fronts! What will they think of next?
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Ever read Ray Bradbury? He foretold all this many many years ago. I always felt that Bradbury was one of the most prescient writers ever, especially for the effects of technology on society.
ever wonder how much is prescience and how much is influence?
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There is another nifty product called VisionArt that is a shade of artwork of sorts that covers the plasma when not in use...you would think it is a painting until you watch tv.
Next you'll be talking about a comic strip character from 40 years ago.
Two way radio small enough to be worn on your wrist!
Who makes this stuff up? <g>
( it was another 15 or 20 years until there were cell phones the size of a small briefcase that you could carry around!)
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Edited 10/19/2006 11:29 pm ET by BUIC
Good point... in the case of Bradbury I think it's prescience. Now Orwell... that's another story.
The Veldt, right - creepy.
Wouldn't you need to leave the TV on? Consume power & wear it out faster...
I guess if you can afford one of those you don't really care.
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I've seen small picture frames such as might sit on an end table that are really small video displays.
You load in the digital pic you want displayed and there you go!
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Such an image will burn itself into the display and destroy the tv, not a good idea.
Got up to a Best Buy store yesterday, 50 mile drive.
Talked to one of the knowledgeable hotshots in the home theater section, bright guy, nice earings. Showed me some LCD and plasma flatscreens that were big buck items, and said the "screensaver" features were quite easy to program, that lots of images were available, and that this is done routinely.
Apparently burn-in is not an issue with these technologies.
Plasma will burn in. But some models have are suppose to slowly move the image a small distance. But without knowing more detail I would be afraid that it would burn in a smudge.LCD does not have burn in problems.BTW, when Gates built his house IIRC he either bougth or bought rights to a number of paintings and was going to display them digitally via on wall "screens".
Apparently burn-in is not an issue with these technologies.
There's two schools of thought on that out there--either they believe in "burn in" or they don't. Neither side has much in the way of evidence (that is not second-hand, circumstantial, or hearsay) for their positions.
Of course, all it would take to help prevent burn in, would be to program in a video effect, like bleeding the image to black, and "rebuilding" it on idle. The lcd/mirror/pixel points just need to cycle through their on/off/voltage range to not take a "set" (if such a thing is possible in the product life span/cycle).
Now, to the original topic, what I keep expecting to see out of a trade show, is a treated sheet-goods video display. You'd just set a store-front metal section in the wall, and the "video glazing" would fit into that. The screen would be what ever you program that to be.
Which makes for some interesting directions for design to ponder--like makign the wainscotting part of your video display (or seeing that XP menu bar just about the base board . . . or as the base board . . . )Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Cool things, but topping all the high-tech gadgets.......I saw several works from an artist who took old TVs and made them into fish tanks....leaving them to look like the TVs they were......major cool and hip, flip trippy.
Yes, real fishtanks with real water and real fish.
Edited 10/20/2006 11:15 am ET by txlandlord