CNN beams in guests with new hologram technology

CNN's tryout of holograms was the talk of TV on a night where networks brought forth all sorts of gizmos and gadgets to cover Barack Obama's election as president.

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For the first time, superstring theorists can point to a place where their formulas help other physicists understand something they can see in their experiments.

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Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

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DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment.

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The Pentagon wants to create computerized hologram-like moms and dads that can talk with soldiers' children when their parents are deployed far from home and beyond telephone or e-mail contact.

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CNN employed a bevy of gadgetry in their election night coverage, from such 'gee-whiz' items as a 'hologram' effect for interview subjects to nifty oversize touch-screen displays for state-by-state and county-by-county voting trend analysis.

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Although CNN dubbed the image of Yellin a "hologram," it really wasn't. But experts suggest it may not be long before a host like Blitzer could in fact see a holographic image in the studio.

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Everywhere I turn, someone is saying how "cool" CNN's so-called "hologram" was. Uh, no.

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CNN's holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 degree footage of virtual correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago all the way to the station's election center in NY? As Arthur C. Clarke says, Magic.

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As if this election weren't exciting enough already, CNN has plans to sex up its coverage with 3-D holographic projections of its correspondents.

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Video: Obama Wins but Hologram Steals Show

I am as happy as the next guy about the Obama win however, if you have a technical bone in your body, you have to see the CNN Hologram that stole the election show.

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It sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized version …

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The result: a colorful indicator that a silk-embedded sensor has found and bound to its target, whether pathogenic E. coli in a supermarket, an environmental pollutant or glucose in a diabetic's bloodstream. More Articles

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In 'The Black Hole War,' Stanford University physicist Susskind recounts his long history of scientific conflict with famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking (whose concession letter he prints).

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In an impressive mix of visual sciences and sci-fi, the ICT Graphics Lab at USC has created a low-cost volumetric 3-D display that brings every kid's hologram dreams closer to reality.

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Bill Gates, chairman of software powerhouse Microsoft Corp, made a five-minute virtual appearance at the World Congress on Information Technology 2008 here.

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HE was slightly flat, a touch blurry and a smidge taller than reality but Telstra chief technology officer Dr Hugh Bradlow's real-time hologram made a huge impression on his Adelaide audience today.

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See that 15-foot beam of glowing manhood? That's Bill Gates. While cohort Steve Ballmer was being pelted with eggs by angry Hungarians, Microsoft Chairman Gates was making a virtual appearance at the World Congress on Information Technology 2008 in Kuala Lumpur.

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Scientists have developed a polymer in which holograms can be developed in minutes – and it can be erased and used over and over again.

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In the many years in which the Prince of Wales has attended official functions he has never appeared quite like this. At the alternative energy conference in Abu Dhabi he was not exactly there in the flesh. There was no video link either.

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The Prince of Wales was beamed in Star Trek-style for his first appearance as a hologram when he delivered a powerful speech on the environment to the world's leaders before vanishing into thin air.

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Finally, a hologram! Now where's my lightsaber?

Over the years, science fiction movies have dazzled our senses with special effects depicting advanced technologies we can only dream of. I remember watching Stark Trek and Star Wars, and imagining the time when I could see lightsabers, holograms, and warp speed.

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By using lasers to etch data onto microbial proteins, researchers at the University of Connecticut may have demonstrated a way to produce rewritable holographic memory.

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