Engineering On Friday: Electric Avenue

23 Mar 2012

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University of Belgium students created a touchscreen interface using CRT monitors. The system requires a glove laden with phototransistors to work. Cumbersome apparatuses to operate a defunked technology is not a winning combination, except for those with a lot of TVs.

I remember Montgomery Ward's Electric Avenue, it seemed like the future to my young eyes. It was the company's first entrance into the budding world of technology. Unfortunately, their last. Or is it?

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fustini over 14 years ago

Wow - Electric Ave! That's where I got my first computer - a Mac LCII... I think it had a 16MHz, 4MB RAM, 80MB HD.
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fustini over 14 years ago in reply to fustini

oh and playing off the CRT bit, I believe it had a lovely 12" color monitor. Maybe I'll dig it out of my parent's basement now that I can turn it into a touchscreen
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fustini over 14 years ago in reply to fustini

oh and playing off the CRT bit, I believe it had a lovely 12" color monitor. Maybe I'll dig it out of my parent's basement now that I can turn it into a touchscreen
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