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1) Portable scroll screens. When a soldier is out in the field and he needs his bearings, he takes out something the size of a rolling pin. He unscrolls the screen from the main body of the rolling pin and there he can call up a GPS map of his position. Or he can talk on-screen to another soldier in another sector. Soldiers already currently have such items, but this would allow for a MUCH larger screen (as tall as the rolling pin is long, and as wide as he can stretch his two arms apart), and also allow it to travel very compactly and very well-protected in his gear when he's not using it.
2) Roll-up TV screen. Currently, the hip new thing (well "new" as in the past four years) that upper-crust people do is mount a flat-panel TV onto the wall directly above the fireplace mantle. It's ideal because the fireplace is usually a focal point in a room anyhow, and the wall above the mantle is designed to carry the weight of huge heavy paintings.
But ... the downside is that you have now rendered your firplace inoperable because if you ever lit a fire down there the heat would destroy your TV screen.
But now, with the touch of a button, the screen can be scrolled away into a heavilly insulated and thus protected scroll-up case above the mantle. So when you're not watching TV, you can still do the bourgeois, Norman Rockwell thing and light a roaring fire.
That's like WOW!
ReplyDeleteI have two techno visions for it:
1) Portable scroll screens. When a soldier is out in the field and he needs his bearings, he takes out something the size of a rolling pin. He unscrolls the screen from the main body of the rolling pin and there he can call up a GPS map of his position. Or he can talk on-screen to another soldier in another sector. Soldiers already currently have such items, but this would allow for a MUCH larger screen (as tall as the rolling pin is long, and as wide as he can stretch his two arms apart), and also allow it to travel very compactly and very well-protected in his gear when he's not using it.
2) Roll-up TV screen. Currently, the hip new thing (well "new" as in the past four years) that upper-crust people do is mount a flat-panel TV onto the wall directly above the fireplace mantle. It's ideal because the fireplace is usually a focal point in a room anyhow, and the wall above the mantle is designed to carry the weight of huge heavy paintings.
But ... the downside is that you have now rendered your firplace inoperable because if you ever lit a fire down there the heat would destroy your TV screen.
But now, with the touch of a button, the screen can be scrolled away into a heavilly insulated and thus protected scroll-up case above the mantle. So when you're not watching TV, you can still do the bourgeois, Norman Rockwell thing and light a roaring fire.