Latest By
Category:
Armor
Artificial
Intelligence
Biology
Clothing
Communication
Computers
Culture
Data Storage
Displays
Engineering
Entertainment
Food
Input Devices
Lifestyle
Living Space
Manufacturing
Material
Media
Medical
Miscellaneous
Robotics
Security
Space Tech
Spacecraft
Surveillance
Transportation
Travel
Vehicle
Virtual
Person
Warfare
Weapon
Work
"IMHO, having students do computer games projects is absolutely the best possible way to teach programming, graphics, software engineering, object oriented programming, etc."
- Rudy Rucker
 |
| Full-Motion Building Advertising Facade | ||
| An advertising display that covers an entire skyscraper; it provides full-motion video to onlookers. |
The 'screen' is a display that covers the entire side of the building. Note that it offers full-motion video. Also, note the vehicle lights of the flying car that is going by the midsection of the building.
 (Blade Runner: full-motion, full-size building advertisements) |
| From Blade Runner,
by Ridley Scott. Published by Blade Runner Partnership in 1982 Additional resources -
|
Take a look at the full-motion building advertising facade in this clip from the movie Blade Runner (it starts about 15 seconds in).
Comment/Join this discussion (BACK ON!) ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This |
Additional
resources:
More Ideas
and Technology from Blade Runner
More Ideas
and Technology by Ridley Scott
Tech news articles related to Blade Runner
Tech news articles related to works by Ridley Scott
Full-Motion Building Advertising Facade-related
news articles:
- ag4's Bayer 'Media Facade' Like Blade Runner
| 'Facetime Facelift' Beautifies Video Chats |
| Meeting Wendy Of Wendy's |
| Narrative Science And Phil Dick's Homeostatic Newspaper |
| BookTrack Adds Sound To Books |
Want to Contribute an
Item?
It's easy:
Get the name of the item, a
quote, the book's name and the author's name, and Add
it here.
| <Previous | Next> |
|
|
|
Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) is devoted to the creative science inventions and ideas of sf authors. Look for the Invention Category that interests you, the Glossary, the Invention Timeline, or see what's New.
|
'The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah's.'
'It rested among green parklands and... stood in total isolation, a glittering block of whites and flashing windows dotted with colors.'
'George Walt's corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...'
'This was the center of Interplanetary Communications.'
'... the Scarab [flying robot] buzzed into the great workroom as any intruding insect might...'
'When he had first built them, they had been crude indeed, flying mechanisms with little more than a reflex-response unit.'
