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House With A View
A tall periscope above the roof feeds into one or more "window"/screens. | |
This Idea was inspired by a TV real-estate commercial. Lots of
homes
don't have a very good view of anything but the neighboring
homes.
Well, a tall periscope (but with cameras) on the roof could give
you a
good view of the entire neighborhood. Just put some monitor
screens
on various
blank walls (interior walls!, but maybe also near an
ordinary window if the wall is big enough), dress up the
monitors to
look like ordinary windows, and feed the periscope video into
those
monitors.
A variant on the theme would have a 360-degree-view camera
on top of the periscope mast, and the video signal would be
processed to send, to each monitor, a continuously "panning"
view (no need to actually pan the camera).
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Wouldn't this just give you a view of all your neighbours' periscopes? |
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Bonus if I can subscribe to somebody else's view; say, the ocean on one wall, a skyline on another, the Grand Canyon on a third, perhaps some rainforest on a fourth... |
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[hippo], that is possible, of course, but the farther away
another skinny periscope mast is, the less it will interfere
with the overall view. |
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Ha hippo. Bun for idea, I would love to see what goes on in
the evening on my neighbors rooftops. |
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At least it seems possible. |
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Your not talking about a house that wakes up, yawns, stretches, stands, shuffles down to the beach, yawns again, looks longingly at the sunrise, takes a leak, and shuffles back to it's lot when a policeman pulls out her ticket book and gives it the eye. |
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Periscopes toward the beach seem easy and tame by comparison. |
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You could put the entire house atop the telescopic mast. |
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Underground periscopes would have to image your neighbours' basements, the nearby cemetery, the sewage network, etc. with some radiation that penetrates soil easily - maybe radar or some sort of sonar perhaps? |
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I would only see trees, but bun for a fun idea. +
In the ground, I would only see all the chipmunk tunnels
around my house and into my garden! |
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