In Canal City, a big mall in Japan, they built a cool new display that drops water in such a pattern that it displays images.

We’ve now seen wooden pixels, ping pong pixels and watery pixels here. What’s next?

3d display from Seiko Epson:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080806/156118/

L.A. lab forms 3DTV group
http://eetimes.eu/consumer/209904332;jsessionid=5QPFYPI0HM0WQQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN

Philips 3D solutions sells 3D screens since 2005

New Epson LCD technology: 3D without glasses?
Epson says it has developed a new high resolution 3D LCD display which offers extra freedom for viewing, including not needing special glasses to enjoy applications like movies and games. There is no word yet on when this prototype will actually make its way to retail shelves.

Today I was at the popular Mediamarkt electronics store in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where I saw the “largest TV in the world”; a Panasonic 103 inch plasma display. That’s well over 2.5 meters diagonal for us metric-centric people. It’s got 1920×1080 spatial resolution with 12-bit per color channel resolution. The price tag was also quite hefty at 79,999 Euros ($120,000 dollars). For such an amount you can buy 200 22″ flat screen TVs instead. If my math serves me right, that makes for a 580 inch (14.4 meter) diagonal TV. Quite a bit bigger and with a much higher spatial resolution.

I was surprised that the display didn’t look more grainy though, even when standing relatively close by. In displays the Megapixel race doesn’t follow the same pace as in the image sensor world. Still, with such large screen sizes, will we soon need to capture, store and transmit video with bigger than 1920×1080 resolutions?