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Air Powered Segment Display? [video]

118 pointsby ProfDreamerlast Saturday at 9:32 AM11 commentsview on HN

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tyleolast Saturday at 12:04 PM

Wow, this is underrated. The start of the video cuts between a few other inventions this creator made using air. They discussed using air for digital logic gates generally.

Really neat stuff I hadn’t thought about before!

scentonitoday at 12:02 AM

If the active elements were convex instead of concave, I can imagine this being useful for people with visual impairments. How does this compare to existing technologies for braille displays?

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guiambrostoday at 5:45 AM

Dupe from a few days ago [1], but glad this is gaining some attention. Truly remarkable work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733345

rbanffylast Saturday at 10:32 AM

It becomes more interesting when you couple a flexible display with it.

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olalondetoday at 12:14 AM

Rocky would approve.

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caditinpiscinamtoday at 12:21 AM

A whole new type of "vacuum tube"

pointpthyesterday at 11:29 PM

sometimes humans are awesome.