Archive for New York

Billboards Show Escapee Photos

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Billboards are going up all over the Northeast with the photos of the two inmates who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility over the weekend.  David Sweat, 34 and Richard Matt, 48, are both convicted murderers and considered armed and dangerous.  The prison is located in New York, close to the Canadian border, and authorities have placed the escapee’s images on 50 billboards all around the state as well as in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.  A prison employee, accused of supplying tools to the men to aid in their escape, is currently in jail.  The men allegedly used the tools to cut through a steel wall, get into a steam pipe and escape out of a man hole a few blocks from the prison.  Sweat is described as a white male, 5’11”, 165 lbs., with brown hair and green eyes.  Sweat also has tattoos on his left bicep and right fingers.  Matt is also a white male, 6 feet tall with black hair and hazel eyes.  Matt has several tattoos, including the phrase “Mexico Forever” on his back, a heart on his chest and left shoulder, as well as a Marine Corps insignia on his right shoulder.  Anyone with information is asked to call the New York State Police at 1-800-GIVETIP.  So far, the search for the escapees has been confined to the Northeast, no word on whether it will be expanded to include Atlanta and areas in the Southeast.

 

3D Billboards Coming to Times Square

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Researchers in Austria are working on new technology that could change the face of digital billboards as we know them.  A new tech start up called TriLite Technologies has partnered with the Vienna University of Technology to create what they are calling “trixels.”  These use tiny mirrors to reflect lasers in several directions and the result can trick viewers into interpreting the image as 3D…no glasses needed.  The trixels project hundreds of images outward simultaneously, while current 3D technology only projects 2, requiring the use of glasses.  Billboards using the trixel technology would not only appear 3D to the naked eye, they would also jump out at viewers from every angle.  Researchers say that in addition, different images can be projected depending on where the viewer is in relation to the billboard, thereby allowing several ads to be shown simultaneously.  For example, they say someone coming out of a shop to the left of the board could see something different than another patron coming out of a building on the right of the board.  The new technology is expected to be finished later this year and we could be seeing it launched in New York’s Times Square by 2016. No word on when or if we will see the technology here in the Atlanta market.