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The Heliodisplay is an interactive projection technology invented by Chad Dyner in 2001 that projects images into mid-air that can be manipulated and moved with a fingertip. It works by drawing in ambient air, passing it through metal plates to make the particles "image-friendly", and then bottom projecting illuminated images onto the converted air cloud to create floating images. Unlike similar technologies like FogScreen, the Heliodisplay's images can be interacted with for uses like collaborative work or surgical training. While not yet ready for wide commercial use, the inventor believes it could one day replace screen-based displays.

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Heliodisplay

The Heliodisplay is an interactive projection technology invented by Chad Dyner in 2001 that projects images into mid-air that can be manipulated and moved with a fingertip. It works by drawing in ambient air, passing it through metal plates to make the particles "image-friendly", and then bottom projecting illuminated images onto the converted air cloud to create floating images. Unlike similar technologies like FogScreen, the Heliodisplay's images can be interacted with for uses like collaborative work or surgical training. While not yet ready for wide commercial use, the inventor believes it could one day replace screen-based displays.

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HELIODISPLAY

Introduction
IMAGINE a touch screen on which the elements of the image displayed can be moved around with a fingertip. Now imagine the same scene without the screen: the image can still be moved with a fingertip, but it floats unsupported above a quietly whirring gray box that is connected to a laptop computer.

http://work.colum.edu/~amiller/thinair.htm

What is Heliodisplay?
The Heliodisplay is an interactive technology that projects into the air above the machine still or moving images that can be manipulated with a fingertip. The images are two-dimensional, and they are not holograms.

http://work.colum.edu/~amiller/thinair.htm

Figure 1 Haze beams light onto a stage

How it works?

Working: y y Its a very simple system using conventional air. The device converts the imaging properties of the air so that the air is taken in, converted instantaneously, and then re-ejected out. Then it is projected onto that converted air. y After air is drawn into the machine, it moves through a dozen metal plates and then comes out again.

y y y

The device works by creating a cloud of microscopic particles that make the air image-friendly. It uses no harmful gases or liquids. The ambient air is bottom-projected and illuminated, generating the free-space image that floats in midair.

Who found it?


The Heliodisplay was invented by Mr. Dyner, who built it as a five-inch prototype in 2001 before patenting the free-space display technology, and founding IO2 Technology LLC to further develop the product.

Features
The Heliodisplay is not the first device to project images into the air, but its interactive capability, which Mr. Dyner described as a "virtual touch screen," sets it apart from a similar machine made by a Finnish company, FogScreen. Viewers can use a finger or a hand-held object - rather than a keyboard or mouse to manipulate images in the display. Heliodisplay uses an optical laser-tracking system to follow the user's movements. It can be a surgical knife, a pen, a pencil, a hand, a finger. Mr. Dyner envisions many uses for the Heliodisplay. It could be used for museum or trade-show displays or for advertisements, and would be ideal for collaborative work. He envisions this in a conference-room setting, in the center of a large table," he said. "Everybody can rotate it, move it around and update it in real time."

Competent / Enemy/ Competitor


y y FogScreen, a similar device, projects images onto a cloud of water vapor. It uses a laminar airflow process to project images onto a thin screen made of water and ultrasonic waves. y It lack the interactive capabilities of the Heliodisplay

Conclusion

The Heliodisplay's inventor, Chad Dyner, says the technology could one day replace conventional cathode-ray tubes, liquid crystal displays and plasma screens.

http://work.colum.edu/~amiller/thinair.htm
Heliodisplay technology is not yet ready for the marketplace. But it claims that the technology could one day revolutionize the way we look at air. "People looked at the first flight of the Wright brothers and said: 'Only 120 feet? I can walk 120 feet. What do we need this thing for?' Add 10 years and it's a totally different world."

Sources
http://work.colum.edu/~amiller/thinair.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliodisplay

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