This is addicting.

Man, this comic reminds me of my time working at Crossroads (Awful myspace page, they don’t have a real website)…no joke.

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Issue number 5 came out over the weekend, we’re proud of it. Check out the pdf.

Last week at the store we picked up some Cap’n Crunch cereal because Christina had a nostalgic craving. The other day I was looking at the back of the box, which has some kids doing sporty things, including some incredibly stereotyped foreigners holding signs with rebus puzzles of their countries on them. When I saw the kid from Canada, I had to do a double take.

You be the judge:

So I was playing racquetball today and started thinking about why it wasn’t a more popular spectator sport. Obviously, the fact that they only have one transparent wall (if even that) limits the viewability and appeal to television audiences.

So I thought, “what if all the non-floor surfaces were transparent?” But then realized that the players would probably have serious trouble seeing the ball without that nice ball-on-white contrast.

They make this stuff called smart glass that uses liquid crystal technology to change from transparent to opaque. What if a circuit was to designed to alternate the glass between clear and transparent at a designated frequency, probably something 60hz or higher, and you had cameras set to capture at half that rate, syncing them with the clear cycle of the smart glass? In theory, that would allow them to see into the court as if the glass were absolutely transparent, right?

That would leave the players looking at walls that are somewhere between opaque and translucent, so we would need something for them as well. Now, it’s already pretty ubiquitous that racquetball players wear safety glasses to protect their eyes, what if they were LCD shutter glasses? They would be almost like this but instead of alternating left and right eyes, both sides would be synced to be “open” on the opaque cycle of the smart glass, giving the illusion of normal racquetball court walls.

If a live audience was desired, spectators could wear LCD shutter glasses as well that were synced with the transparent cycle of the smart glass.

I realize this would be outrageously cost-prohibitive, and the effort to effect ratio may not be worth it, but it wouldn’t it be freaking cool?

(If it even worked)

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