A true 3D world map...

Hello readers,

World maps are always so flat, so I came up with a high tech solution:

If you take a closer look at a LED-TV than you will see lights. Well, if a red colour is showed on this TV, more electricity goes to the red LED. If you would take all the wires that go to the red LEDs and plug these in air pumps which are connected to movable hexagons, than these would go up and down when the intensity of the red changes. If you would do this with a lot of hexagons, as many as there are red LEDs in a LED-TV, than you would end up with a cool computerized pin toy. This shows that the hexagons can be replaced with pins. Now, if you made an elevation map of the world which used shades of red (no, not shades of gray) than you would have a feelable world map. You could use a splitter to send the image to both a computerscreen and the pin toy. Using just an full-screen image editor you could zoom in on a landscape, and still feel and see this landscape. Such thing could also be used to simulate basic water level rising research and stuff like that. You could also hang a projector above it to project the world map on it to add realism. I don't know if such thing exists already, but if it doesn't I think it should be made. This is way more interesting than those static elevation maps. But you can show other things than elevation, like population or statistics. Or live temperature or live cloud movement etc...

 You need a TV, some (a lot actually) plastic hexagons, a lot of plastic tubes, a lot of pumps, a computer with a screen and mouse, wood for the frame, a projector, even more plastic to hold the hexagons and some coffee to keep you awake while making this.

Mel

P.S. I gonna change from a post a day to two post a week. Sorry...