Now For Some More Nerd Tech!

Do you want to know why 2015 is a special year for geeks?  This is the year that Marty McFly traveled to in Back To The Future II, and saw all of this cool stuff that had been invented!  There were hover boards, self-lacing shoes, and yes, 3-dimensional advertising billboards.  So where is all of this stuff?  A lot closer than you probably thought!

Now, since I mentioned them, it wouldn't be fair if I didn't tell you where we stood on these products, right?  Right.  Nike is planning on unveiling their self-lacing shoes later this year, in order to capitalize on the movie's popularity, and a hover board has actually been developed, but it only works on one particular type of surface.  Still, pretty cool.  So what about those 3D billboards?

While it may not be the 3D billboards that we saw in Back to the Future II, developers have found a way to create 3D images without the need for those annoying 3D glasses!  This, in itself, is HUGE!  The Austrian start up company TriLite Technologies have perfected a technique that allows them to film things that they can later project into a 3D image without the need for any type of eye ware.  This is the explanation that was given on Blastr.com:

"The system uses a complex system of lasers that projects beams in different directions, with a very fine angular resolution that allows viewers to see a different image in each eye, creating the impression of three dimensions. If the technology is scaled up to the size of something like an ad in New York's Times Square, for example, passersby would see a different image from different sides of the projector, creating the illusion that you're walking past a real object that changes based on where you're standing."

Pretty cool, huh?  Even though today's use of 3D technologies are pretty antiquated, they feel that they can improve upon, and, again, eliminate the need for glasses by creating a new projector that would require the use of more cameras while filming a shot, to give us a fuller 3D effect.  Here's what they had to say:

"Today's 3D cinema movies can be converted into our 3D format, but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays - perhaps with a much larger number of cameras," Franz Fiedler, CTO of TriLite Technologies, said.

They are hoping to bring this tech to the public by 2016.  Finally!  No more 3D headaches from lousy eye ware!