LCD Rims: TV for the Tires - Jalopnik Comments

LCD Rims: TV for the Tires

usa1 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:16:59 EDT

Like spinners, it's a distracting nuisance.

usa1

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GameBreaker — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:01:25 EDT

Wow, two months from now those rims will be on Pimp my Ride. Wait, is that show even on anymore?

GameBreaker

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UDMan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:03:32 EDT

@toyotaboy: Did you see the special PMR episode regarding what happened to the cars after they were pimped? The guy with that Toyota (Screens on the outside) destroyed the front end of the car within weeks of finishing. The producers also lend a car to the lucky recipients while their car is being pimped, and this guy totaled out that car as well.

UDMan

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toyotaboy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:58:35 EDT

That reminds me of when pimp my ride put LCD screens in the front bumpers, and all I could think about is how soon that screen will get chips in it from rocks, or someone just steals it (especially in southern cali). Although keep in mind this is most likely not going to be a mod for average users, this is meant as banner ads (think vinyl covering). Isn't this illegal btw? I thought the only lit colors you can have on the outside while the vehicle is in motion are amber, red, and white. Surely other colors are bound to show up.

toyotaboy

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Pixel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:17:22 EDT

@UDMAN: Don't forget LCDs in the headlights

[www.ubergizmo.com]

Pixel

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MTXE — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:10:34 EDT

@Stumies:
X2 POV wheels are a much better option (and not that hard to make)

MTXE

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dozaster — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:08:12 EDT

The song is 'DJ Shadow - Organ Donor'

dozaster

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wheels OF satan! — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:25:28 EDT

@Mike Spinelli:

okay i'm confuzed
are they gonna be a strip of LED's going around..
like
persistence of vision stuff
[www.ladyada.net]

or a square grid of LED/LCD's mounted on a wheel?
like we see here....

did they actually have a wheel spinning around for you to check out??

i'm CORN-FUZED

wheels OF satan!

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PaulE — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:56:35 EDT

I dunno--it'd be fun to do something silly with this, maybe video of laundry tumbling round and round, or somebody trying to escape the rims? Trippy.

PaulE

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djteqneek — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:26:05 EDT

can't believe theyre playing this song, this is my favorite song to bboy to!

DJ Shadow - Organ Donor

djteqneek

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gadgetfanatic — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:07:14 EDT

@TheAstronot:I do.

gadgetfanatic

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SantaBarbaraWahoo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:05:13 EDT

Jeez, as if we needed a new seizure-inducing distraction on the road...

SantaBarbaraWahoo

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akirachan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:47:24 EDT

Rim TV. I don't really like the idea of being bombarded by media everywhere you go. Especially while driving or filling up at gas station. Who needs this? Unless of course you're talking about a 64 inch screen! Talk about a new era of tailgate parties!

akirachan

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al_beaton — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:55:07 EDT

@logruszed: 3: I guess they'll be on a floating hub, like the caps on the new Phantom.

But, unless you happen to be lying on the sidewalk, eye-to-hub, you're going to be looking down at an ellipse, and so at a distorted picture.

So their "new mobile communications and marketing industry" would need to be pitched at the bum community. "What's the word? Thunderbird!"

al_beaton

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smokeydog001 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:52:38 EDT

Something to do in a traffic jam I guess.

smokeydog001

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JWilly48519 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:48:15 EDT

I suppose it wasn't the same product at all. Same effect and concept, though.

JWilly48519

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JWilly48519 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:47:21 EDT

Ummm...old?

I saw a set of these on Woodward in Birmingham (Detroit suburb) maybe a year ago.

It was night, they were very bright with intense coloration, and they were ***extremely*** attention-getting.

When I first saw them, the two I could see each had a cowboy on a galloping horse in a tracking shot. After a while, they switched to a headshot of a grinning goofy-faced teenager. My assumption at the time was that the owner had prepared a wheel-video as an art statement.

For some folks, attracting attention to your vehicle isn't a bad thing.

@fuzzycuffs: at least on the ones I saw, each wheel's LCD was fixed to its wheel...not mounted on a set of bearings like a spinner cap. Thus the LCDs rotated at wheel speed. The image, though, remained exactly horizontal at all times by means of being digitally counter-rotated per a level-reference. Thus the image didn't have the weird asynchronous rotation of spinner caps, or any rotation at all.

JWilly48519

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Mike Spinelli — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:40:10 EDT

@logruszed: Correct. They're an LCD prototype of what will be an LED product.

[www.ledwheels.com]

"LED Wheels mission is to be the catalyst for a new mobile communications and marketing industry."

No answers to 1,2,3 or otherwise.

Mike Spinelli

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logruszed — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:33:25 EDT

This is probably just a mockup for a display car, not a set of driveable rims.

1: Where do/would they get their power from?

2: Where do/would they get their signal from?

3: Think about what rotational force would do to a plasma at 60mph. That's liquid in there folks.

logruszed

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jmagay — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:29:03 EDT

Wow, this is right up there with talking ads in urinals!

jmagay

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jeremyc — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:14:51 EDT

I was just wondering what other visual spaces could be occupied by advertising.

jeremyc

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Speedie — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:55:37 EDT

I have said it on here before, and here goes again:

Just because you can, doesnt mean you should...

Speedie

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no_slushbox — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:36:24 EDT

The only thing I would want to watch on this is the designer of this being tentacle-raped.

no_slushbox

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niterunner — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:35:10 EDT

Next step is an entire car body made out of LCD, I mean it seems logical to have the entire car to double as a tv.

niterunner

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SeanKHotay — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:34:40 EDT

Yous got it all wrong --> Rim *Camo*

Put a camera on the inside of the rim pointed at the other side, project that image on the screen.

"Look, ma! No rims!"

Hell, have the camera rotate with the rim and mess w/ everyone's mind...

"A tinwormhole!"

SeanKHotay

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Whitless — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:25:17 EDT

"I don't want my little hunny bunny scratching my plasma's parking the car, baby"

Whitless

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LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:10 EDT

If you're low rent and can't afford cable or satellite for your TV wheels, can your curb feelers double as "rabbit ears?"

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

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RoninianHoon — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:17:26 EDT

I smell an MTV spin off.... Rims TV... the go to show for how to pimp your TV rims.

RoninianHoon

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skoobeesnak — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:16:26 EDT

Please God, kill us all now so we don't have to see anymore horeshit like this festered upon us by Vanilla Ice lookalikes wanting to make our hoopties "Tight yo".

skoobeesnak

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Chrisb27 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:13:15 EDT

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy god WHY! I want some answers.

Chrisb27

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fuzzycuffs — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:12:13 EDT

Does the image change when it's spinning? As in, it's always in the right orientation?

fuzzycuffs

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Yadah — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:09:13 EDT

Can someone please tell me what song that is playing??

Yadah

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Mark Arnold — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:09:09 EDT

@TinaChow: COTD.

Mark Arnold

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slowinthefastlane — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:05:12 EDT

@UDMAN
You forgot the sun-visor monitors. I've also seen monitors (illegally) mounted in the center of the steering wheel - usually taking the place of the airbag module.

"Pimp My Ride" is gonna love these...

slowinthefastlane

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TinaChow — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:01:58 EDT

Make up your mind petty criminals. Are you stealing TVs, or are you stealing hubcaps?

TinaChow

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UDMan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:54:47 EDT

Lets see, a Video in the front of the dash, video's on every head restraint (even ones in the back seat.... I think it's called 'hater vision'), a couple more that drop down from the headliner, one big one in the trunk/cargo area/bed, and now 4 more for the wheels. Isn't that just a bit of overkill? (Rendundant Question I know)

UDMan

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Stumies — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:51:10 EDT

Rutabaga wheels!

How do you actually attach these to your car? Does the LCD screen come off to reveal the bolts? I think I prefer the rims with strips of LED's that form a cohesive image when spinning.

Stumies

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TheAstronot — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:48:52 EDT

Will they ever run out of places to put TV screens? Who actually watches that much TV.

TheAstronot

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SwatLax — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:44:12 EDT

But is it HD?

SwatLax