HELP!!! WTF is this light? - Calling all sherlock holmes wannabee's!

[Munkee Majic]

I maybe deliriously tired but i stumbled upon this in google...

I wanna get banned, so I'm posting porn.

sorry not that one! that was a slightly different surf...

HoloCIS, Holographic Car Identification System, J.H. Tönnjes E.A....

"For us, license plates are not just license plates, but official documents issued by governmental authorities.

Therefore, we attach our entire focus and interest on the development of high quality and security license .

The State of the Art car license plate is made of aluminium, covered with reflective sheeting including numerous security. Research and development in the field of optical security technology is continuously achieved by our exclusive co-operation with world leaders in holographic security products."

maybe just to read number plates? Maybe jap fuzz motor?

i dunno im off to surf me some p0rn...

good luck pep's! defo interesting though.

[Jim27]

Originally Posted by chris_s

it has to be some kinda early incar hud but its the image that it projects thats distracting me

Can't be a HUD. There's no focusing lense and the light is blurred, otherwise you'd clearly make out the shape and dots on the cylindrical mask thingy...

[Jim27]

Well I was just reading this:

"Blue light has what we call a very high diffuse density, which causes it to radiate outwards as opposed to forwards. What results is a wide glow of light outside the beam pattern that is blinding to motorists you share the road with. A blue HID bulb will produce color bleed around the headlight, around the objects it lights up, outside of the beam pattern, and around the cut off line. This is effect is known as "glare", and these illegal and improperly installed HID kits are the reason why HIDs get a bad wrap. As common evidence of glare, observe a traffic light at night in a dimly lit area. There is red light and green light. Red is opposite blue and green is next to blue, thus we can substitute green for blue. If you observe the aura, or glow, of light around a red light and compare it to that of a green light, you'll notice that the green light produces much more glare than red. Blue is even worse. Purple, the worst.

Here are some examples...



Above you are looking at two 8000K HID low beam and fog light kits installed on a GS300 (gs300). One of the foglights retains the orignal halogen bulb for comparison purposes.



What I'm trying to illustrate here is the glow of blue light (or glare) that radiates off 8000K bulbs. This glow breaks out of the beam pattern and blinds oncoming motorists. Also note how small the actual brightness gain is when you go from factory halogen to 8000K HID. Is it even worth your while?

Blue light also shifts the color hue of everything on the road to blue scale, which fatigues your eyes more than a standard halogen bulb, and it's brightness isn't that much of a marked improvement over a xenon-filled halogen bulb. As evidence of this blue eye fatigue, anyone in the Armed Forces, or anyone who is an astonomer/stargazer, knows to read maps and charts at night using a red light. This is because red light (on the opposite end of the visible light spectrum from blue) doesn't burn into your eyes and affect your night vision like blue light does. As an experiment, momentarily shine a red LED in one of your eyes and a blue LED in the other. Close both eyes and notice how the blue LED burns into your cornea a lot more than the red does. This is because blue light is higher energy and thus causes more strain and wear on the light receptors in your eyes than red light. Kind of like blasting your car stereo at 100db for half an hour straight would fatigue your ears."

Taken from: intellexual net · m k i v

I also found this from Hitachi Digital Media illustrating how their



Look familiar? I'd say that if the light projected was meant for anything other than general illumination then there would definitely be some sort of focusing lense involved.

So a reasonable conclusion seems to be that this device is to provide projected (not cast) soft non-blue light either onto the dashboard or something at or around headheight in the centre of the cabin. Given the weak strength of the light I doubt it's to illuminate anything for someone outside the vehicle to see, so it has to be for the occupants - either the driver or passenger.

If it was for map-reading it seems awfully complicated, especially when you consider that the Skyline already has independent driver & passenger courtesy lights that do for map-reading...

[callumGTR]

couldnt it just be something simple like a mood changing lamp? the new mini r56 has a small muilty coloured lamp that can be changed smoothly through the colour chart, & funny enough you do look at it & go "ahhhhhhhh",

[callumGTR]

on a sunday night shift 10hrs in mind

[JasonO]

Munkee,
One more post like that will be too many.

[Zoidman]

Interesting, have you tried to replace the halogen bulb?

[rasonline]

it looks suspiciously red...

maybe the previous owner was a perv in the back seat

[Dave_R1001]

Not sure if its correct or not, but in the thread about the Hot Staff car that Newera have listed someone pointed out that it had the same box on the roof as the one we are discussing here.
If you read the PDF for the Hot Staff car it describes it as an air purifier? Maybe Miguel could comment on this and if its the same as in the Hot Staff R33?

[Hudeani_R33]

Originally Posted by Dave_R1001

Not sure if its correct or not, but in the thread about the Hot Staff car that Newera have listed someone pointed out that it had the same box on the roof as the one we are discussing here.
If you read the PDF for the Hot Staff car it describes it as an air purifier? Maybe Miguel could comment on this and if its the same as in the Hot Staff R33?

That would of been me lol cant see how that can purify air like that though but then again i wouldnt have a clue what it is . some 1 should know the answer!

[lonewolf]

Hey, this thread is back! Still a mystery then.

I haven't changed the bulb, but even if it did need changing to increase brightness... what would it do? I'm just off to have a look at that Hot Staff thread.

Regards
Tim

[cokey]

I think its a Gaydar !
To stop you picking up trannys !
cheers cokey

[zedman]

I've test driven a 97 Gts-t and it had this thing installed on the ceiling. The guy that owned it was told by the importer that it was a form of air purifier or something of the like. I'm in Australia also.

[Grex]

Maybe the clip in cylinder was some kind of air freshner refill thing? and the red/green light made the chemical react on the paper to freshen the air?

[chris_s]

can someone post a link to the hot staff thingi pls i did a search and cant find it