[dobin]

Looks nice, but it's still just more news for the news addicted.

Silly idea dump: How about: A 4k TV in form of a window, which displays a live stream of a 4k camera of various places in nature. Lets say, in the middle of the forest, or a beach in italy. To have a window into another place, for some calm and mindfulness.

[marcuskaz]

This site has feeds of windows around the world: https://www.window-swap.com

[dobin]

Cool! And pretty good quality of the video stream. But for a big tv as a real window, needs to be higher resolution

[dumbfounder]

Wow, it's like I am living in 1990's vision of the future!

[B1FF_PSUVM]

You might be a customer for Bob Shaw's fictional 'slow glass':

Travelling through a remote area, they find a place that sells panes of slow glass. This is glass that light takes a long time to pass through, even years, so that a pane of this glass shows a scene from the past. People buy slow glass that has been placed in picturesque scenery so that later they can enjoy the view in their homes or workplaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Other_Days

[JKCalhoun]

Was thinking about something like that recently — recalling maybe some kind of art piece from a decade or two back?

1) Place a camera + display somewhere in an urban area of the world so that random pedestrians can come and watch the display, will be on camera.

2) Place any number of these identical setups in other areas of the world.

3) Arbitrarily feed the camera from one to the display of another (shuffle every 24 hours?).

You get people seeing/reacting to others seeing/reacting ... possibly to them, possibly to others who are seeing/reacting to....

[rnotaro]

Like this ? : https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/lithuania-polan...

[JKCalhoun]

Interesting. I was remembering something from much before 2021 though.

[762236]

Life is so much better without news in it.

[93po]

I have a similar smaller project that gives me a daily passage, weather, my to do list, calendar items, and daily checklist items

[cfn]

Wasn't Bill Gates who patented something like this idea many years ago?

[michelb]

Sort of: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-6670934-...