Word: holograms
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...will take some of the sting out of the military's high demand for troops and the resulting stop-loss policy. But it won't do anything to dry the tears of soldiers' children distraught over Dad's or Mom's absence. Now the Pentagon wants to create computerized hologram-like moms and dads that can talk with the kids when their parents are deployed far from home and beyond telephone or e-mail contact...
...expect the hologram scene from Star Wars where Princess Leia appears to ask, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi." The Pentagon is still looking for the right technique and technology - at the right price. The parameters are simple: lonely kids should be able to "boot up" Dad or Mom on their home computer. "The child should be able to have a simulated conversation with a parent about generic, everyday topics," reads the Defense Department's solicitation seeking companies to develop the concept. "For instance, a child may get a response from saying 'I love you,' or 'I miss you,' or 'Good...
...than any that we’ve heard proposed thus far. Instead of increasing travel time across the board or lengthening classes, we could instead adopt a cellular service style pay-per-minute lateness plan. Is Expos in your five? Or maybe we could borrow CNN’s hologram technology, such that we could be beamed into lecture each morning. If that fails we could switch to “Stanford time,” in which lateness is excused up to three hours. If the CUE decides to proceed with any readjustments to our schedules, we hope they...
...electronics conference, scientists showed colleagues a "holographic moving picture," but the stars of that film were limited to steel balls and slow-moving gears. Still, reality is rarely a limit to a marketer's imagination. In succeeding years, futuristic-seeming holograms became a gimmick. Sports Illustrated put a 3-D Michael Jordan on its cover in 1991, and the U.S. Postal Service issued its first hologram stamp in 1989. Both quickly became collector's items. Homemade holograms are difficult to create, requiring lasers and holographic plates or film, which has made them effective counterfeit deterrents used on credit cards...
...Blitzer and his virtual correspondent, most viewers probably don't care whether what they saw was a real hologram or a fake one - which means CNN probably doesn't either. Still, promises Bohrman, "when and if technology allows us to do this for real, we really will...