http://www.gizmag.com Every now and then, we come across an idea so forehead-slappingly simple, so practical and logical that we have to ask: how come nobody thought of this before? When you have one of those moments, you know the inventor's onto a rip-snorter of a product - and so it is with the VirtualHUD, a super-bright projector that uses the back of a plane's propeller as a screen to create a full-color heads-up display. The system uses similar technology to the augmented reality systems The Mobiler covered recently to overlay instrumental data, as well as GPS points, 'highway in the sky' targets and visual representations of things like no-fly zones, over the pilot's actual view out the cockpit windscreen - all without obscuring natural vision through the propeller.en gizmag.com http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-47092 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-47092 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:39:31 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-3712 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-3712 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:00:23 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-3385 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-3385 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:34:37 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-3358 http://www.gizmag.com/virtualhud-propeller-projector-hud/12065/#comment-3358 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:51:03 -0500