![]() ![]() I guess that explains why my own cardboard box didn't work very well. We use CF bulbs in our house, they are so dang efficient they won't activate a solar powered calculator. I'm hooked on the reflected image idea right now. Right now, I'm thinking of how to use this teleprompter for a HUD, my video card drivers can do all the flipping and inverting of the image. So the operator looked at the stereo and said "Turn down the volume." The system determined what he was looking at and lowered the volume on the stereo. ![]() Kind of like Minority Report but without the glove things.Ī few years ago, IBM or some place like that had a system that could see your eyes and where you were looking. The system tracks the movement of your hand after that. You put your hand in a certain place in the air it has a line around it on the display, once it acquires your hand, you can move it anywhere. Then again, I saw this guy on YouTube who does it in the open air. When you tilted it sideways, you could see the mirrors and stuff inside, but not if you looked right at it. It had a little color LCD display in the bottom, then a mirror reflected the image onto the glass so it looked like it was right in front of you. When I was a kid, I had miniature Donkey Kong arcade game that worked almost exactly as I'm describing. Illuminate the glass with IR then put a visible light filter over the camera so it only sees the IR. Then put the camera above the top edge of the monitor pointed at the glass. Take this teleprompter and turn it around then tip it forward until the glass is vertical. In other words rather than placing the reflective surface at an angle, put the monitor at an angle and the camera above it. I think if you could reflect the display onto the glass but flat, it would work. "What's up, John?'' Obama called out, looking for the Ohio Orangeman.I agree about the blobs. Although not a color that appears in the natural world." "We have a lot in common," Obama explained. What turned our crank was the shot taken at the perpetually orange tan House Minority Leader John Boehner. "During the second hundred days, I will learn to go off the teleprompter and Joe Biden will learn to stay on the teleprompter."Įveryone can debate what his best line of the night was. He's warm, cuddly, loyal, enthusiastic, and you have to keep him on a tight leash because every now and then he goes charging off in the wrong direction and gets himself in trouble."īut it wasn't enough about Biden. So I've cut the tension by brining a new friend to the White House. "All this change hasn't been easy," Obama said, reflecting on his early days in the White House. Even if everybody knew where he was going with it (and everyone did). ![]() You can't go wrong with a Joe Biden joke. "Because it is seven hours past his bedtime." "I do appreciate Larry Summers being here tonight," he said. Like when he dozed off at the beginning of one of the president's meetings a couple weeks ago. "This is a tough holiday for Rahm Emmanuel, because he's not used to saying the word "day" after mother."Īnd how about his economic adviser's penchant for falling asleep at the wrong time. "Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out in the audience," the president announced. ![]() I don't care whose kids you knew Rahm Emmanuel's reputation for colorful language would likely be brought up. "You can't just take Air Force One on a joyride to Manhattan. "Sasha and Malia aren't here tonight because they're grounded," he said. Staying close to home - and close to recent news events - the president announced that his daughters were absent from the night's festivities. Regardless, it was funny (both incidents were). Some opponents swear that he accidentally introduced himself when his teleprompter actually did blow up a couple months ago. Undoubtedly there will be those who believe he said "pause for laughter" by mistake. Pause for laughter," he said (to laughter). Then he nailed it with a predictable but very funny line. Perfectly timed, two extremely loud teleprompters rose up from the stage. "But now that I'm here, I want to try something different. "I had an entire speech prepared," he began. Like on the ever-present chatter on his use of a teleprompter. Although he would veer off and take a few shots at the right, you could say his best material was when it was more self-directed. He was funny.ĭespite scorn from people who say "now is not the time to make jokes," President Obama made jokes and scored big laughs from lampooning himself and his staff. Whenever his teleprompter breaks, for example, he gets tons of laughs.īut last night's performance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, the jokes were intentional. It's not the first time President Obama has tried his hand at stand-up comedy. ![]()
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