Image air

We've seen it in dozens of films - from "Stars Wars" to "Nikita" - Picture hanging in the air. But now the technology is becoming a reality. The US, the company presented to the public IO2 Technology Heliodisplay. This device is projected into the air image that can twist arms.


Over gray rectangular box the size of a breadbox just hanging in the air image of the double helix of DNA. Young man puts his hand into a luminous projection - the image obediently moves. Same later he does with the projection of the globe.

"In 2015, when we turn on the TV screen will hang in the air in the center of our living room - and hear these words without admiring public demonstration. - In the next ten years, this technology will be the dominant ».

Inventor and head of IO2 Technology is a 29-year-old Chad Diner (Chad Dyner), a graduate student of the legendary MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT), famous for its personnel.

Technology, which created "Geliodispley" expect international patents, so the technical details are a trade secret. By the greatest, I must say, unfortunately.

"All that we can say now - is that the device changes the properties of the air within a limited space. Air enters the device emitted and covered by our own technology, through which the photons and air produce an image.

There are no harmful gases or liquids. Nothing needs to be filled by a new one. It's just the air around us. Image, moreover, is an interactive, so a finger or a hand, and can be used, like a mouse.


The image is flat (two-dimensional), but with a small distance seems volumetric (three-dimensional), but has no physical depth. "Angle" from 75 to 150 degrees outside this area, the image invisible (transparent). To see the projection does not need any glasses or screens.

The current prototype Heliodisplay projects the image of the other, future models will be able to create a projection of the bottom or side. Projection can be manipulated hands, no gloves or pointers is not required. "

This, incidentally, is called controlled semi-transparent image. About its quality is said that the resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, 16-bit color, 27-inch diagonal projection (as early as this year will be 64, and run all 150 inches). In fact, this quality yet mediocre - the eyes of the public present at the demonstrations "Geliodispleya" burn brighter. But this is temporary.

IO2 Technology sells this product until a non-profit, collected manually. Four pieces per month. Prepayment of $ 12, 5000 price display is $ 22, 5 thousand. With the limited warranty, excluding delivery and more. The experts, in turn, suggests the cost of a mass product of $ 5,000. A company Chad Diener, gradually perfecting his invention, is looking for investors and partners-manufacturers.

Here is a website www.io2technology.com/