Turf TV

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to display advertisements and other things right on a field? Well in a few

years this may become possible for any team in sports if they want to spend the money. In the next couple years Sportexe, one of the leading synthetic turf producers, is planning on releasing what they call "interactive turf." This turf would allow teams to display logos, first down lines, and advertisements right on the field of play with the use of fiber-optic lights.

It is actually a very simple process one of Sportexe's executives says it is just that no one has thought about it yet. How it is done is a computer sends an image to the field, where it is distributed among 1,750 interconnected trays, which host their own light processing circuit. Thousands of blades of polyethylene grass, blended with optical fibers, reflect light upward from the trays. A football field would have 128 million pixels, which is 1,280 pixels per square foot. These fields cost about 1.5 million dollars which is three times as much as a regular in-fill field that most NFL teams have adopted over the years.

But not only is this technology used for sports it can also be used for other things such as artificial Christmas trees with lights already built into it which has already been released. Also, they are hoping that they can make something work with the U.S. Military and be able to camouflage things and when they are needed just light them up but this is yet to be seen. Hopefully in the next couple years this technology will be released and people will be able to see it in action in everyday sports.