Wow, this is underrated. The start of the video cuts between a few other inventions this creator made using air. They discussed using air for digital logic gates generally.

Really neat stuff I hadn’t thought about before!

If the active elements were convex instead of concave, I can imagine this being useful for people with visual impairments. How does this compare to existing technologies for braille displays?

Dupe from a few days ago [1], but glad this is gaining some attention. Truly remarkable work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733345

It becomes more interesting when you couple a flexible display with it.

...especially if that display could be a touch screen...

It's been tried with fluid instead of air.

https://www.engadget.com/this-oled-screen-can-fill-with-liqu...

Rocky would approve.

niche

A whole new type of "vacuum tube"

sometimes humans are awesome.