students designed a 'new imac'

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It's designed by students of a german university. Instead of having a screen, they thought of a projector. Apple wasn't involved.
*amazing design*
 

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I have seen this projector idea pop-up now at three different, AFAIK unrelated, places on the net ... mmmh ... There was a post in the Mac Ach pointing to this, and an article on MacBidouille pointing to this. And now this thread here ... Curious ...
 
Yeah, I saw that forum thread as well. I don't know how likely it may be. However, it does create a few curious coincidences.
 
Don't get me wrong lads, those students designed it in 2003, and it is NOT related to apple. As me said before, apple wasn't involved, just asked about the copyright 'cause they wanted and used the apple logo. Apple never answered. Nuthing to do with apples imac.
 
Looks good, but wouldn't it be incredibly impractical?

You'd need a surface to project onto (unless it projected straight onto your retina), you'd also need to put it somewhere where it could project onto this surface, and you also wouldn't be able to sit between it and the projection surface.

A nice design, but completely daft!

Maybe just about workable for a conference room computer, but not for a consumer product.
 
I don't think it would be impractical. As long as you had a fair projection surface and something flat, I think it would be fine to work with. After all, given the size of the display, you wouldn't want to be sitting in between the wall and the projctor anyway!
 
It would be EXCELLENT for classrooms -- they could replace the instructors' $1500 Dell/Gateway systems AND the $2000 projector.
 
Set it on the floor under your desk with an unobstructed path to the white wall 10 feet in front of you and just adjust it up a few feet - and that would be such a good setup! That anchored somewhere with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse...
Neat!
 
Oh, apple would come up with a way to solve that problem... Monday I bet they unveil a commemorative cube just like that one with a holographic projector, just like the ones in star wars. You won't even need a wall to project onto. You just give it a few feet of open space and depending on how much depth there is it can be flat or 3D, and can scale from the size of a normal monitor to the size of a giant home theatre...
 
mr. k said:
Set it on the floor under your desk with an unobstructed path to the white wall 10 feet in front of you and just adjust it up a few feet - and that would be such a good setup! That anchored somewhere with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse...
Neat!
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Yeah, that'd be great. I'd have my desk at one end of the room projecting onto a white wall at the other end, oh and with nothing in between to obstruct the view, meaning a pretty empty room!
 
I'm sorry, but that thing (let's call it the pMac) is just ugly. And it is very impractical as a consumer computer because people don't want to be projecting an image onto a wall, necessitating they turn off the lights, don't get anything in the way, etc. Otherwise, there would be a lot more home projectors than humongous plasma TV's.
 
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