displays

How-To: Paperclay Bust Jewelry Display

How-To: Paperclay Bust Jewelry Display

Project photos or craft fair booths in need of a little visual enhancement? Dress up those lackluster displays with a vintage-inspired paperclay bust jewelry display!

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Flexible “Willow Glass” Sheeting

Flexible “Willow Glass” Sheeting

Launched this summer, Corning’s Willow Glass is an ultra-thin (0.1mm), flexible, roll-processable glass sheet intended for use in next-generation display devices. From an applications point of view, it offers the possibility of curved displays and/or interfaces that wrap around object or devices, and from a manufacturing point of view, the possibility of producing display devices using continuous “roll-to-roll” assembly, kind of like how bulk paper goods are processed.

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Pyramidal Prisms Over a Flat Panel Display

Pyramidal Prisms Over a Flat Panel Display

Interesting, unusual concept from artist Kit Webster, who has covered the surface of a flat panel display with a grid of square pyramidal prisms of various sizes.  The image displayed on the underlying screen is designed to interact optically with the prisms, bringing patterns of light and color up out of the screen into the […]

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How-To:  Ping pong ball display

How-To: Ping pong ball display

Nice original content from our pals over at Hack a Day. Great project, guys!

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Repurpose an old laptop as a digital picture frame

Repurpose an old laptop as a digital picture frame

Erik Pettersson couldn’t find a digital picture frame he liked, so he rolled his own using an old laptop and a frame from Ikea. With Ubuntu running on the laptop, he created a few scripts for changing the picture at a determined interval and for turning the display on and off at different times of […]

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Designing the smallest legible screen font

Designing the smallest legible screen font

Legibility, of course, is a matter of degree, but given that NYU computer science professor Ken Perlin’s tiny font can fit 500 words into a 320 x 240 pixel rectangle, I am surprised at how readable it remains. “My design,” he explains, “assumes that screen pixels are horizontal striped as RGBRGB, as are most LCD screens these days.”

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