For all the techno-geeks, here’s the FYI on CNN/Wolf’s epilepsy inducing, nausea inspiring, flickering ‘Hologram.’

“CNN’s holograms not really holograms”
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/05/tech-holograms.html

Thanks Dan – good catch!

Not to get ultra-geeky, but for those interested, one commentator on the CBC article notes that perhaps CBC’s holograms are not really holograms either:

“A piece pointing out that CNN got it wrong, also got it wrong. A hologram is not ‘projected into space’, other than by R2D2 and for the avoidance of doubt, that is just a movie, not real. A hologram appears in 3D space when viewed through a holographic plate; there is no projection involved, other than shining the reference laser onto the plate the reconstruct the image. This is not ‘projection into space’.”

Ok, now all together: “Aw, but I was going to Tashi Station to pick up some power converters!”