The Mind of Brant Peery

Tonight I had a bug to go and find out some more information on the pocket projectors that are just about to hit the market. I find this to be significant for many reasons. I have been following the development of OLED displays for the last couple of years and am excited to see them come to the market. However the pocket projectors may render OLEDs dead before they ever live in the open market. Why, because if a person can get a 15″ - 100″ screen from a device like a cell phone or laptop in high quality, who cares about roll up screens any more. Oled will suffer some of the same problems that LED screens suffered from like lifetime and brightness. However the laser or led driven pocket projectors will generate very little heat, can project on any surface and should not suffer from the lifetime limits of oled. The light will still have to be created. Some companies are using lasers, some ore using diodes (LED). I like the diodes because they run cooler and use less energy (battery). As of current, the projectors need a wall or surface to project on. However I see the release of projectors that ‘project’ a reference beam that acts as a ’screen’ for the light to interact with and cause a virtual screen to be seen by the viewer. Eventually that technology could be used to create a screen that had a 3d surface, so when the color was bounced off of it, it would appear to create a 3d object. This technology sure does move us closer to the type of stuff they currently have only in sci-fi movies. I am more excited now than ever about the display field. Some of the pocket projectors are slated to be released to the public this year.

As another side note, the projectors do not need to be focused. This is because of the refraction that happens at the creation of the image. The light never passes through a lens. It is refracted to the correct position in the image and shoots strait out, much like the real light bouncing off of real objects that we see every day. The refraction is accomplished using tiny mirrors built into the control chip of the projector. It is truly a very cool and innovative display technology. All that a company needs to add a display to a device is to buy the chip from Light Blue Optics, create a light source to point at the chip, and away they go. No lenses needed, no fans to keep it cool. This means that we could be seeing the R2D2 projection system in the NEAR future. One phone company is already making it into their next phone (Light Blue Optics would not disclose which company).

Anyways, to find out more, just google ‘pocket projector hologram’

Well we worked all day this fine Saturday on the house on Monte Vista in Pocatello. Dad was good enough to come an lay some rock on a fireplace for us. It looks so much better that it did. I hope that it makes a difference in how soon the house sells. The coolest thing is that the rock on there was left over from one of dad’s jobs. So I couldn’t beat the price!

Anyways are some pictures of the (mostly) finished product.

The second picture is the higher res picture. This one was taken with my camera. Also I will get a picture of the fireplace BEFORE the rock went on it. I know that I have one somewhere.

Kekthau – the spy-assassin sent to find the whereabouts of the plans for the energy conversion unit.

(kek-tha-u) he received the k on the end of his first syllable in his name because he foiled a plot against his faction at the age of 15 as he overheard his uncle speaking to warriors of another faction. He ran to his father who would not reveal the news to the high council of Jurn. So he bravely went to the council himself to tell them of the movements against them. He knew that it would definitely result in the death of his uncle, and probably the imprisonment and death of his father. This did not bother him. It only gave him an opportunity to surpass his father who had already shown too much mercy in his life. This was evident by the fact that his father, even in his aged state of 35 years had only two syllables in his name, and both of them ended with soft sounds to represent his weak and soft heart. Keyh, as he Kekthau was known then, Would surpass his dad in honor by placing a hard ‘k’ at the end of his name forming Keyk instead of the soft, novice name of Keyh. So, it was with these thoughts that he used every ounce of stealth that he had so carefully trained into himself in the last 10 years at the assassin’s academy to approach the meeting of his uncle on that afternoon so long ago.

It proved just how talented Keyh was at the time to even know where the meeting was to be held. His uncle was a very powerful man in the faction. His uncle had three syllables in his name, two of which ended with hard consonants. This alone would have warded off any other would be spy’s feeble attempts to gain stature at his uncle’s expense. Keyh was not feeble nor was this going to be only an attempt. He had graduated top of the advanced class this last year at the acadamy. This had already earned him the h at the end of his given name of Key. In his mind he was already Keyk and would soon have the honor of every one else on Rylor calling him by his rightful name. As Keyh approached the designated meeting area, he noticed with his keen eye that wave-emitting anti-listening devices had been carefully placed at the opening of every corridor leading to the war room. Keyh had expected this. He had earned a Award of Honor that had come from the Emperor of his faction on his intimate knowledge of technology used to keep unwanted guests from seeing, hearing, or even being able to detect a group of warriors. What he hadn’t included in his extensive show of knowledge to his instructors, who were in his mind all idiots and undeserving of his attention, was the specifications for the newest unreleased top secret models of all the secrecy devices he had obtained. He had either stolen plans or the devices themselves for almost all of the newest technology being worked on by the grand Emperor of Rylor. Many of these devices would not even be available to the lesser factions for years; unless of course someone were to introduce them into the black market. The greatest satisfaction of all however, was the fact that many powerful men were sent to their deaths because of the items he had stolen. He had carefully framed anyone who would stand in his way with the thefts. To him, it was convenient game, and downright genius how well this all worked out.

His uncle was very wealthy, and almost as powerful as he was rich. He knew that if his uncle employed any of the newest technology at this meeting, it would lessen the chance of Keyh’s success. Keyh had to have names and plans to get what he wanted from the council.

Keyh’s concentration pinpointed on the anti-spy devices at the corridors. He had to get closer to the device to know how to negate it. The biggest problems with the wave-emitting models is that they not only kept an outsider from hearing the conversations from within the perimeter, but also amplified the sounds coming from directly outside the perimeter, and thus alerted the private party within. He reached inside his bag and found his spectral amplifier. This served as digital binoculars, but even more importantly, he could amplify and see every wavelength on the spectrum. He would know shortly if his uncle had paid the high dollars necessary to buy the very latest equipment from the black market.

“You idiot.” he whispered softly to himself as if to insult the warrior who placed the devices. As he analyzed the spectrum, he saw not only the listening devices, but also a few misplaced visual inhibitors. What he could tell from the spectral signature of the visual inhibitors, they were fairly new technology. VSI3200-87 to be exact. That should have allowed them to be placed in front of the wave-emitting devices, the spectrum said these were WEAD22-E devices, with out interrupting either devices’ functionality. When placed in front, the visual inhibitors make the detection of audio-inhibitors more difficult and often unnoticed until too late.

Keyh adjusted his stealth suite to emit the same spectral signature as the metal supports of building. This would prevent them from visually detecting his movements as he moved closer to the wave-emitting anti-listening devices. He started to move, very silently, towards one of the corridors. He kept his amplifier trained on the visual devices looking for any minute change in the signature that would alert him to their detection of his movements. As he entered their range he noticed that the signature started to change. They had started to detected him! but how?? He moved out of range and rechecked his suite. Every thing was as it should be. This is impossible. He HAD to get passed them somehow. There was a thought that was nagging him at the back of his mind. Something that he should have guessed about the situation.

“Son of a …” He cut his curse short as he was too close to the WEAD22-E device to even whisper the hard sound that the word bitch would have made. He started to adjust his suite a bit more. He silently cursed himself again. He should have realized that the new VSI3200-87 would pick up the very faint signature change the WEAD22-E would give his suit as it bombarded him with sound waves. The VSI3200-87 was very sensitive indeed. The warrior who had placed these devices perhaps wasn’t as

Well its new to me anyways. It is a 2006 Dodge Durango. It has the V-8 4.7L in it to haul my camp trailer all over the countryside. I had a heck of a time getting my wife to agree to buy this little beauty. She is too practical to WANT to buy an impractical vehicle. The biggest think for her was that it only gets 19 mpg on the freeway and 14 mpg in town. She wanted something that would haul the kids and get really good mileage. Well I wanted a vehicle that a man would be proud to be driving. She wanted an Acura (nice cars, but not able to tow a camp trailer). I had to really talk to get her to buy this. However, like always, the people at 20th Century Ford treated me right, and they were able to get me the vehicle at a price that even my wife wouldn’t turn down.
On a more different note, I was able to see my newly wed cousin Matt and met his wife Chelsea. They really are great people. Makes me wish they lived closer so I could hang with them more often. We had a reception of sorts for them at grandma Christensen’s house Saturday night. A lot of people came that I had not see for quite some time. Some of those people I haven’t seen since I lived in Shelly (we moved when I was about 4). They thought my kids looked just they way they remembered me. It was weird to talk to them about the way I was. My kids do a lot of the same things they said I did. But I bet a lot of kids do the same stuff.
This morning we were back over at grandma’s house to celebrate the baby blessing of Genices’ new boy. It was good to have more time to talk to every one in a less busy situation. Matt and I got to chat quite a bit while I was working on his computer. He is having problems with his laptop acting really slow (he had 70 processes running at startup). I fixed some of it, but was interrupted by lunch and didn’t get the rest done. I hope that it was enough to help him in his plight because it was really slow.
The rest of the day was just kinda lazy. We went to Nikkii’s to play volley ball. Which we did for about an hour. Then I got tired (I didn’t get my Sunday nap yet!) so I fell asleep on the lawn. We left and came home because Darren wanted to watch the BSU game and it was playing only on ESPN so he had to go to Grandpa Peery’s to watch it.