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2006-03-26, 2:37 AM #1
oy. might be old news but i think it's pretty amazing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/

[http://static.flickr.com/6/7234920_0aed5a3cd2.jpg]
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2006-03-26, 2:50 AM #2
Yeah nothing new, but they are cool. Especially this one.
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2006-03-26, 3:19 AM #3
damn, had me going for a minute there. oh well, still pretty cool
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2006-03-26, 3:22 AM #4
Damn, I want one :p
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2006-03-26, 6:59 AM #5
I'm quite tempted to do that...
2006-03-26, 7:16 AM #6
ALright, I'm a little lost. Exactly how is that done?

There's 2 ways I can think of:

1) Taking a picture of where the monitor would be, then setting that as the background.

or

2) Using a camera of sorts that you could hook up to your computer and use like the streaming video feature to be your wallpaper. (Perhaps usign software that takes a picture with your camera every few seconds, then sets that as your wallpaper)

Are either of those right, or is there some other way of doing this?
2006-03-26, 7:32 AM #7
Originally posted by FCTuner04:
Are either of those right, or is there some other way of doing this?


yup. the monitor is transparent :D

(i am working on it as we speak. (type...))
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2006-03-26, 7:49 AM #8
I wouldn't want to go through all the trouple to move my big old monitor just so I could take a picture of the bare wall.
2006-03-26, 8:48 AM #9
Clearly, this is very cool!

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2006-03-26, 9:21 AM #10
Bah, I thought of doing this almost three years ago; way before it ever hit the internet. If I had known then that everyone would think it was awesomely cool...

Ah well, there isn't even any way to prove that I thought it up on my own.
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2006-03-26, 9:47 AM #11
I've thought of it but I realized that it would have to match the lighting in the room constantly for it to actually look cool.
2006-03-26, 10:47 AM #12
It wouldn't work on my monitor. All you'd see is CRT innards and blank wall.
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2006-03-26, 2:01 PM #13
They have some sort of web cam device on the back of it that streams to the desktop.
2006-03-26, 2:06 PM #14
No they don't. You move the monitor, take a photo, crop it and use it as your background. There's tutorials all over google. Plus if you used a webcam it wouldn't line up as you wouldn't be able to see enough image through the lens.
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2006-03-26, 5:19 PM #15
This is undoubtedly the coolest on that page:
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2006-03-26, 5:34 PM #16
Someone was really bored :p
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2006-03-27, 7:29 PM #17
hmm... I'm going to try that.
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2006-03-27, 10:29 PM #18
Wow, using one of them for general use would really suck.
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