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Coming soon...the 'Star Wars' phone that lets you talk to holograms of your loved ones
dailymail.co.uk ^
| 06:10 EST, 5 January 2014
| Ben Ellery
Posted on 01/05/2014 9:49:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
A hologram machine will receive the image and beam it using a laser projector on to a ‘screen’ of water vapour, which gives the image its third dimension.
The hologram image will speak, move and listen in real time. The company also believes its invention will be on the market within five years.
‘Our holograms will take video- phone calls to the next level,’ said Marcin Panek, chief executive of Leia Display Systems.
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To: humblegunner
To: BenLurkin
The hologram image will speak, move and listen in real time. The company also believes its invention will be on the market within five years.
File this under "products that no one will want". And if this is going to be the company's first product, they won't exist in five years.
To: Lazamataz
Dammit Laz, I’m totally stealing that.
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posted on
01/05/2014 10:25:26 AM PST
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Crazieman
(Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
To: BenLurkin
Leia Display Systems The "Princess Phone" ??
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posted on
01/05/2014 10:42:01 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Expensive, will it be...)
To: Crazieman
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posted on
01/05/2014 10:42:35 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Perdogg
Forget the phone, where’s my lightsaber?!
To: AnotherUnixGeek
I want an I-Watch that will project a screen (and these holograms) over my wrist.
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posted on
01/05/2014 10:47:11 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: mikrofon
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posted on
01/05/2014 10:51:09 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: humblegunner
Every technological advance is first used for porn. Yes. It was a traumatic time for many when the egg beater was first introduced.
Not to mention the arc welder.
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posted on
01/05/2014 10:52:44 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Alex Murphy
I won’t even mention the hydraulic press or the jackhammer.
To: BenLurkin; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
The lifelike fullbody scans come courtesy of the NSA and TSA.
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posted on
01/05/2014 12:00:26 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: Alex Murphy; humblegunner
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posted on
01/05/2014 12:01:54 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: JRandomFreeper
You can’t necessarily. I think some kids have already been charged with crimes for sending/receiving nude texts.
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posted on
01/05/2014 12:04:21 PM PST
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EEGator
To: HangnJudge
Hologram of what?Nudity, mostly.
Porn drives technological progress.
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01/07/2014 1:42:46 PM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
("Gun horror is not a productive emotion, it's learned helplessness disguised as moral superiority.")
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