Word: holograms
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...beat 'em, join 'em. Become one of the increasing number of museums and historical sites that are redesigning their collections with high-tech interfaces, action-packed short films and theme-park aesthetics. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum opened in Springfield, Ill., last year with a talking Honest Abe hologram and a host of other educational parlor tricks. The Marine Corps museum, opening in Quantico, Va., near Washington in November, will use changes in temperature and humidity to immerse its visitors--and, it hopes, drum up recruits--in harrowing and heroic battlescapes ranging from the icy mountains of Korea...
...only for the hearing-impaired, but also for those who like shiny things. In addition to the bling, which awkwardly adorns the neck of a skinny white guy, there are somersaulting planes of greenish light at random points, and the oddly Britney Spears-esque chorus is sung by translucent hologram faces in the same shade of green superimposed over the more corporeal band members. It’s difficult to say whether this dubious move was made to provide visual interest or because none of the band members wanted to be associated with the chorus (I would understand the latter...
...Guero” track (not to be confused with the video for the eight-bit-style remix of this song, which came out earlier this year), even Japan’s smoothest exports can’t stop the raw power of a human. Well, a hologram of a human, in this case.Apparently, Sony invented four robots that can dance. They’re a foot high or so, look like the main character from the film “Short Circuit,” and can be programmed to do all manner of silly shakes. So, of course, Beck?...
...times, the bearded man in the stovepipe hat seems much like a hologram, a medium for our fears and fantasies. Recent claims that Lincoln was gay--based on a tortured misreading of conventional 19th century sleeping arrangements--resemble the long-standing efforts to draft the famously nonsectarian man for one Christian denomination or another. Over the years, he has been trotted out to support everything from communism and feminism to prohibitionism and vegetarianism. But if a figure can be made to stand for everything, does he really mean anything...
...errant laser pointer will reveal that FAS Dean William C. Kirby is really a hologram projected from the sundial on Mass. Hall, which means that it is physically impossible for him to give interviews to Crimson reporters except in specially designated areas of the Harvard campus during certain times of the month. It will also explain Kirby’s reluctance to shake hands, eat, and smile in front of faculty and students...