Vaporware

START What can you build with a low-cost air blower, drinking straws, plastic tubing, cardboard boxes, some liquid nitrogen, and a lot of tape? A video-screen made of fog. Ismo Rakkolainen, a PhD candidate at Tampere University of Technology, and professor Karri Palovuori know that their screen, with its ghostly image, will never replace a […]

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What can you build with a low-cost air blower, drinking straws, plastic tubing, cardboard boxes, some liquid nitrogen, and a lot of tape? A video-screen made of fog. Ismo Rakkolainen, a PhD candidate at Tampere University of Technology, and professor Karri Palovuori know that their screen, with its ghostly image, will never replace a traditional CRT or LCD. But the Finnish inventors expect that the technology will have several applications from virtual environments and magic tricks to special f/x and enormous outdoor movie screens.

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